New-York tribune., 1920-11-12
Police Find
Bomb Wagon
IIorseshOer
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utes before noon, September is, inQuir-
ing where hc was to deliver load Of
material for A. A. Volk & Co., wreck
ing contractors. Before his questions
were answered the explosion occurred
and the next thing seen Of the driver
was when he dashed into the shack that
housed the NoI6 Office and cxclaimcd
Clark Reiterates Denial
"Lct me telephone, would right
away telephone the boss My horse is
killed That is ny horse down there,
dead
This account of the drivers perplex-
ity was credited to Clark by several
evening newspapers the day Of the ex-
plosion Clark denies he ever said
anything of The kind.
What Clark does admit. according
70 his employer, A. A. Nois, is that
few moments later he saw the driver
with a number Of Other persons hud-
died on the scatfola that had been
erected to facilitate passage over the
sidewalk excavation and that he cleared
thc scatfold OF them.
Acting Inspector Coughlin discredits
else saw the driver Of the death wagon
on the scafold. Coughlin was particu-
larly interested in that, for be would
like 10 know if the driver talies with
he description Of the man he says took
the horse TO be shod. Coughlin pro-
duced photograph yesterday he as
serted had been taken OF the crowd
on the scafold between 12:02 and
12:i0 the day Of the explosion.
Persons in Photograph Identified
Every figure il that photograph, the
police Official asserted. has been identi-
fed. either as IN employee of Noik
& Co. or Of some one e.se who has
been able to give 4 satisfactory ac-
count Of himself.
Three shots were fired at Clark
about a. m on October II last in the
yard OF the home OF James Reilly,
HNfcn and Manhattan avenues, Lor =
island City. Reilly. an assistant fore
nan on the STOCK Exchange Job and
e,so = FRIEND Of Brindell, took Clark
home viii him and had just put his
auto IN his garage Three men stopped
them MS thc slapped from the garage.
Nv hich is Reiily?' ono o. them
4 Sed, and when Reilly answered turned
20 the ether and remarked:
Gold Watch DETECTED Bullet
Then you're Clark"
Three pistol shots followed A heavy
sold watch in Clark's breast pocket
stopped the hrst bullet from piercing
ms heart. L glanced and grazed the
SKIN over his ribs. The second flowed
shallow wound in his LETT shoulder.
lhc third missed its mark and the trio
tied Clark vas taken to The Green
Boint police station and then to the
@recnpoint Hospital. Three days later
&c WaS back at work on the VI all Street
wrecking JOB.
According to The Evening World. he
explained his absence hy saying he had
neen "Snot by fellows Who have been
'ry inS to geJ NE out Of the way ever
nee 1Ae DIS explosion. when | said /
'uld identity the driver"
'lafA could Not be located yesterday.
fuS Nr. Nols teiephored to inc Trib,'
JAe last night this statement:
Aolk Makes Statement
~ he story in The Evening World
's along the lines OF a theory Chat oc-
curred to ne snort; after the cx-
ploslon and IS based On the facts a.
'heT tfahsp'f"d immed ately after the
~ piosl on, pNt on no special knowl-
edse 1t IS on a par with ether the
ores batter, no worse. | told the
ronce OF il when they interviewed me.
and also toid - representative Of The
Evening World
y saw the abrasion made by the
bullet that glanced from Clark's watch.
Clark told me the circumstances Of tte
shooting and said he vas inclined 10
telieVe the affair was The result Of
some @angStcr enmity. but that il had
no bearing en- labor troubles.
Clark told ne about the man on the
seatfoid and he told other persons
about it, Nolk resumed Gle never re-
pudiated that part Of the interview the
newspapers published. What he did
deny was that he had ever said the
driver had referred to n delivery he
had made to our firm or that he had
asked Tor telepnoue to call up his
boss. can say that Clark did not tell
ne anything or that sort"
Following has examination bv De
partment OF Justice Agent Sculiy yes
terday, Zaran&o fatty denied the cost
significant utterance attributed to him