The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-09-22
OFFICIALS LACK Definite
CLUE IN BOMB PUZZLE
Russian Radical Suspect Being Held
Under Departments Plan "Not
to Overlook Any Bets"
FISCHER LEAVES CANADA a

1 .
FISCHER LEAVES CANADAa
Returning Voluntarily to New Work to
Answer Quiz Regarding Explo-
siou-Man Who Warned Friends
New York, Sept. 19.-Department Of
Justice agents and the police were still
without definite clew tonight to the
identity Of the person or persons re-
sponsible for Thursdays explosion in
Wall street.
Alexander Brailovsky, Russian
journalist, who was arrested late yes
terday on information furnished by an
anonymous correspondent and who ad-
mitted having been in the financial dis
trict short time after the explosion
occurred, is still being held, without
bail, on charge Of being an undesir-
able alien.
William j. Flynn, chief of the bu-
reau of investigation Of the Depart
men. of Justice, declared tonight that
he placed no special significance in
Brailovsky's arrest, but said he was
being questioned and held in conform
ance with the departments plan "not
to overlook any bets" and to follow up
all "leads" that may develop in the
course of the investigation.
No other charge or suggestion that
Brailovsky is in any way personally
responsible for the disaster has been
made by the authorities. They an
nounced, however, that he would be
questioned further and an effort made
to locate the three men with whom he
was seen talking at Pine and Nassau
; streets less than an hour after the
blast. He vehemently denies being i'm
plicated in the supposed plot.
May BE Death Wagon" Driver
The only other important develop
/ ment within the past twenty-four
hours is the suggestion by Medical Ex-
aminer Forrest that the sole remain
ing unidentified body, that of boy
about 10, might be that of the driver
] of the death wagon" which was
abandoned near the assay Office just
| before the detonation took place and
which is believed to have carried the
: time bomb that caused the disaster
! Seven "identifications" of the body
were made during the day, but all
= proved to be erroneous upon subse-
quent investigation.
l A revised list Of the dead tonight
showed that thirty-four persons had
lost their lives as result of the ex-
] plosion. Some of the previous lists
made the total thirty-fve
Robert A. Pope, brother-in-law of
Edwin Fischer, woh sent postcard
warnings 1the disaster from To-
ronto to friends nthe financial dis
trict, was questioned for nearly two
hours today at the Department of Jus
ticc. Pope turned Fischer over to the
] authorities in Hamilton, Ontario
where he is being detained pending
his extradition to this city, where he
: will be questioned as to his knowledge
of the blast. Chief Flynn would not
: disclose the nature of the investiga-
tion or say whether Pope had come
voluntarily or in answer to a sum-
mons. Fischer, who already has been
adjudged mentally incompetent by a
lunacy commission in Hamilton, is ex-
Pected here tomorrow.
Police Investigators will question
Fischer upon his arrival, department
agents said today.
Chief Flynn declared there was no
new developments in the case today
: although his men were working on
several "leads" and hoped for definite
results. He denied published reports
that he was seeking five members of
the so-called Gallant band of an
archists.
81 know where these people are and
we are watching them," he said. awe
J have them under surveillance along
with number of other people, but we
: are not looking for them now"