Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-18
..HALL Street EXPLOSION
IFS PR0BED BY GRAND JURY
ftcr Visit to Scene OF Bomb
:. Tragedy Recess Is Taken
Until Monday.
JUDGE ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS
Investigators Arc to Determine
49, Whether Crime Has Been Con-
United and Whether Disaster Was
Due to Criminal Negligence.
Investigators

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE regular
September grand jury. which began
It's investigation at the order Of
Judge Wadhams. OF Court of General
Sessions, was instructed TO divide its
inquiry into two phases: FIRST TO de-
tcrmne whether Il crime had been
committed, and second. whether the
disaster was due TO criminal ncgli
Eence. Judge Wadhams declared II
apparent from early reports the
Explosion was due 20 one or the other.
The grand jury went into session
7mmcdiatcly. Expert chemists. who
Ste trying 70 ascertain the type OF
explosives used. will he summoned
as witnesses. Assistant District Al
torney Talley has requested the police
10 give him the names and addresses
OF all the wounded, and an effort VIII
be made, he added, to have members
of his staT !nterroGate all OF them
personally and then summon those
who are able 10 throw any light upon
the mystery.
: Visit Scene Of Explosion.
THE jury was taken TO the scene
nj the explosion this afternoon. Nj.
:TaIley pointed out the spot where
The automobile was found wrecked,
;hG'> break in The asphalt pavement
in front of the assay Office and the
spot where the demolished wagon
and dead horse were found. Mr..
Talley explained. however. that he
had oecn Informed that the break
in the pavement which was first re-
ported to have been Caused by the
explosion. was there previously.
Fifteen minutes was spent in an
examination OF the exterior OF build
ings in the neighborhood. The guides
~
metal slugs in the walls of the Nor
gan bank and the assay office. The
jury was then taken into tho interior
OF the bank. where the spot in which
William T. Joyce, an cmployc of the
OF the oank, where the spot on which
-9CtMihem.
~ The jury was then taken back TO
9Th. Criminal Courts Building and
Il RECESS ;aAcn until Monday.
Subpoenas were issued tonight for
the appearance OF AZ least twenty
~ r.si tnesses. The frs; subpoenas were
ftsssoed for Gilbert II. Smith and John
Furlong. employed in the financial
Fnistr!ct. and John M!ehlejohn, ohaut-
=. 2eur, who are reported TO have made
= 8 tarnments that they saw powder
wagon in the vicinity ot the eNp!o-
sion just before noon Thursday.
Detectives Obtain Postcard.
= Two detectives also visited the Of
fees OF Proszer d Romans. in the
Equitable Building, 10 obtain post.
card dated Toronto, September IS,
< $50 .E,v.ns warning OF The disaster.
n.Ta.s. postcard, Ike some o; the other
= sue rninss made pablic. was signed
:.strfa."
sc Efssis;ant District Attorney pineon.
Nr3.is assisting in the investigation,
Iaq- questioned John ". Mutch, OF
rG Astoria \. y, who SAID he had
..s. PAL ked his CO! on the south side OF
se;s%Ali Stree, near ihe Morgan build
-s2 ing:just before noon and as he did
e ski he noticed twenty or thirty feet
bhssHst- al the junction OF Broad and
Wall Streets. Il horse-drawn truck
tIS.rg east. . Hes said there was no
=. Ipe5on II. and he could not see its
contents. The body OF the horse
found after the explosion, was
facing west.