New-York tribune., 1920-09-19
Author of Bomb Plot
Wa r N inn gs To Be
Turned Over to Detec-
tives From New York
Admits Recent Visit
To Munitions Plant
Counsel Says He Cam
Prove He Had No Com.
nection With the Blast
From, q staR Correspondent


/ HAMILTON, Ont, Sept. 1s.-Edward
Fischer, prophet OF Thursdays bomb
horror in the financial district of Man
haitian, will be on his way to New York
Monday, according to authorities here
tonight. He will be turned over to the
New York detectives as soon as the
immigration officials can arrange the
preliminaries. 1t is indicated he will
withdraw his opposition to extradition
and 60 voluntarily to explain the five
warnings in which he foretold the
catastrophe.
T. Reginald Sloan, barrister, retained
by Fischer's brother-in-law, Robert
Pope, to care for the prisoners inter
ests here, said tonight he is confident
that any impartial hearing will clear
his client.
Throughout the day Fischer was
subjected to an examination by United
States Secret Service operatives and
detectives Of the Burns Agency. He
is said to have told Of visit made
by him to q large explosives factory
near New York just before his first
prophecy Of the explosion, He is
vague. however, operatives say, as to
the details of his vsiit.
=. smother. .noint on which the ,authori-
} Ties dfes dfs HgsskiHg greater clarity iss Ills
statement on postal card, found in
his possession here, that Bolshevik
had told him Wall Street would be
blown up September IS.
Fischer, however, has continued to
give cvasive answers, as the result
probably of his mental condition.
Woman's Card Among. Effects
A womnn's visiting card found among
his effects, with Bolshevik literature
and two postcards conveying warnings
of the bomb horror, he told the opera
tives to-day, is that of the wife of the
owner Of the munitions factory he says
he visited recently
II guess was there last about three
weeks ago." he said. 81 have been all
through the laboratory of the plant"
That is about the date his first ad-
monitions to keep away from Wall
Street" were issued
He still contends his inspiration for
the warnings was "received from the
air," and told Secret Service men to-
day of other premonitions he has had
of similar origin.
81 was in psychic communication
with my mother" he said, "and knew
in precisely the same way that she
was dying, though miles away. I felt
myself receiving messages from her.
Says Prayer With Caresses
This" he said, drawing from his
pocket the faded photograph Of an
elderly lady, "is mother. 1t is blurred.
I kiss it 300 times day and say q
prayer with each caress.'
Mr.. Sloan says Fischer claims to
have inherited rare psychic powers
from his mother. After long con-
ference with his client the barrister
said:
"He does not claim to have estab-
lished communication with his mother
since her death, but declares that dur
ing her life her thoughts and his were
interchangeabl ~ mental telepathy,
though they we're miles apart.
"He makes no attempt to deny hav-
ing sent the warnings. He says he has
nothing to conceal, and that they were
inspired and not the result Of actual
contact with any Bolsheviki or other
human beings"
Asked if his client would oppose ex-
tradition, Mr.. Sloan replied:
"Mr. Fischer will oppose nothing
that will servs the cause of justice. In
my opinion, he has told the plain truth
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