Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-23
SECOND EXPLOSION
PREDICTED TUESDAY
FAILS TO DEVELOP
Various Clues in Explosion
Mystery Develop No Proof,
Fischer DiScIoses Nothing
of Value to Police

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-While the
grand jury today investigated the
Wall street explosion which cost "a
| lives, a big crowd damned streets
around the custom house which, ac-
cording to an anonymous post card
warning, was to have been blown up
at p. m.
Even after 2 o'clock had passed.
and the warning was generally ac-
copied as a hook, several thousand
persons remained in Battery Park,
around Bowling Green, and in the
vicinity of the custom house. Po-
lice and sailors, the latter with fix
ed bayonets, kept the crowd away
from the building. It's main doors
were closed, and some Of it's en-
ployes took the afternoon off.
The post card which gave warn
ing" of an attempt to blow up the
custom house was received by w. H.
Edwards, collector of internal reve-
nue..
The grand jury today heard IS
witnesses in an effort to fix respon-
sibility for the Wall street blast.
Meanwhile Edwin p Fischer. who
warned his friends of that disaster,
| remained in Bellevue hospital under
observation in the psychopathic
ward.
Robert Gascoigne, "A, who had ad-
dressed threatening letters to Depu-
| ty Collector Of Customs Byron G..
Newton, was sent to hospital for
| insane today for observation.
| Gascoigne. former customs EN-
pfeye under Newton, made his last
threat September IS. His eXamina-
ton was largely formal and no eff
fort was made to connect him with
the warning sent the customs house
here regarding an explosion.
Although both federal and local
authorities were inclined to regard
as a hoax the post card received by
Collector Edwards, setting 2 o'clock
as the hour for the second explosion.
they took no chances.
/ Office workers making their way
this morning, found scores of coast
guards, carrying rifles and side
farms entering the custom house, at
1.-THE foot Of Bowling Green. In ad-
ditfon, scores of United States
coast guards had been modified.
They were stationed inside the
lbuilding, and at the doors. Everyone
entering, the structure was closely
questioned.
An epidemic of sudden Illness
and Visits from out-of-t town rela-
tives" was particularly noticeable at
Fthe custom house.
| Collector on Post
William l(Big BilD H. Edwards.
i collector of revenue, was early al
work, however, and asserted that 2
! O'Clock would fad him at bis desk.
] Although also regarding the post
card warning as joke, he declared
that Icy. "everything the Jaw allows"
lives of workers in the building.
| The custom house has been CIV
] en- a thorough housekeeping. from
basement to dome and is safe from
the inside out" Mr.. Edwards said.
Suspicious looking packages were
opened and corridors today were lit
tered with the remnants of this
! hasty survey. Persons carrying bun
dies were halted at the doors and
obliged to receive a guards permit
before being allowed to enter.
| Shortly after noon all women en-
! ployeS and some men were sent home
from the custom house.
! Federal ad police authorities today
| were admittedly as far as ever from
q solution of the mystery surround
! ing the explosion that spread death
and destruction in Wall street last
| Thursday.
| Clues Fail
| Clues, at first apparently promis-
| ing, have not developed, and today
virtually the only trail being fol-
lowed was that supplied by Samuel
B. Wellington, president of the West
| Indies Trading company, who told
newspaper men he remembered see
ing three suspicious men Fastening
| from in front of the United States
essay office a few mopents before
| the detona tion knocked him uncon-
scious. Wellington was asked to
repeat his story today to the police
and to Chief William J. Flynn, of
the department of justice agents
investigating the explosion, as well
as to the September grand jury.