Arizona republican., 1920-09-19
DECLARE
 BOMB WEIGHED AT
 LEAST 500 POUNDS
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1S-Investiga- tion of the explosion in Wall street Thursday noon which cost 25 lives and did property damage exceeding $1,- 100000 broadly divided itself tonight into two separate channels.
 Firm in their belief that the diSaS ter was caused by a time bomb planted by a band of anarchists, who were also implicated in the mail bomb plots in June, 1919, department of justice in- vestigators headed by Attorney Gen. eral Palmer and William J. Flynn, chief of the departments bureau of in vestig ation, have centered their eff forts in seeking the identity of the person or persons who deposited five radical circulars in a mail box near the scene just a few minutes before the explosion.
 These circulars, printed on cheap paper and signed American Anarchist Fighters" threatened sure death for all of you" unless the political pris oners" were freed. They bear a strik- Ing likeness, Chief Flynn pointed out. to those found in the investigations of June, 1919. Meanwhile police investi- gators were concentrating their atten- tion on trying to establish the identity of the driver of the dilapidated wagon. which was abandoned near the J. P. Morgan & Co. bank few minutes be- fore the explosion and which is be- A1CNCo NO nave COAAbclhCd ttlO AIlACA AAesi machine.
 Bomb Weighed 500 Pounds
 Experts in the police bomb squad, who have examined and pieced to- gether metal fragments, believed to have been part of the bomb, declared the deadly missile weighed about 500 pounds, 200 of which were the explosive itself
 Department of justice agents late to- cf0 oyRyeax m the outgoing steamship Cedric on sus- pfcion that he may have been impli- cated in the plot He was taken to department headquarters, questioned and later released. agents stating he had satisfactorily established his inno- cence.
 The only other man being detained in connection with the explosion is Ed win Fischer, lawyer and former em- ploye of the French high commission here, who sent postcard warnings of the disaster to friends in the financial district. He was turned over to the police of Hamilton, Ont, yesterday by his brother in-Iaw, Robert Pope. who said he was acting queerly. Fischer was later adjudged mentally incompe- tent by lunacy commission, and tenn porarfly confined in the Hamilton jail.
 Local police investig ators have been sent to question him, and if he has di-
  bring him back to New York if pos sible. Fischer claims to have received notice of the impending disaster by mental telepathy." Chief Flynn ex- pressed the opinion that Fischer is in no way connected with the explosion itself
 Police Report Nothing New
 Police department officials admitted tonight that they had uncovered noth- ing new during the day which would aid m solving the mystery. No one has been found, they said, who knew the owner of the horse and wagon which were blown to pieces by the blast.
 One blacksmith, after being shown the shoes and hoofs of the dead horse. told the police he believed he might throw light on the identity of the horse and it's owner. At noon he went to look at the badly dlsmembered carcass. but when he left the police said, There was nothing new to report
 Heads of the various detective bu- reaus assigned to the case conferred today with Chief Inspector William Lahey, but apparently this conference added nothing to the days develop ment.
 A piece of wood, five by three inches. believed to be part of the death wagon" was found by a depart ment of justice operative today on the window ledge of the twentv-fourth floor of the Bankers Trust building at 14 Wall street.