Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-19
TERROR|STS' BAND
! SOUGHT FOR WALL
!. STREET OUTRAGE
italians Who Planned Explo-
sions of June, 1919, Be-
/ Iieved Perpetrators.
LINK GIMBEL BOMB PLOT
/ WITH LAST EXPLOSION
Federal Agents Look to Gallant
Anarchists for Solution
Of Mystery.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. September 1s.-With
J. hundred secret service operatives
Searching every outward-bouHd YES
eel from ports on the Atlantic coast
Tor stowaway suspects, federal ofi-
eials investigating the Wall street
bomb outrage OF Thursday noon to-
day began the active work of locat-
ing the perpetrators.
William j. Flynn, chief Of the bu-
feau of investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice, today definitely an
nounced that the explosion was
caused by time bomb, that the
!. Bomb emanated from an anarchistic
source and that he expected the plot
fers to be shortly under arrest.
His operatives are now proceeding
bn these theories, which are borne
out by circumstantial evidence in the
possession of the department.
That the plot was conceived and
Consummated by the same group of
italian >terrorists who planned and
executed the June 2. 1919. outrages
and to whom Department of Justice
officials have long ascribed the Chi
cago post Office bombing Of Septem-
Der. 1918. and the Gimbel bomb Of
May. 1918. or that it emanated from
one of the other two Italian anar-
,chistic Organizations known to be
active in the United tSates. or from
sxome fanatic infamed by their teach
,ingA
A1arcAists Are seueht.
In pursuit Of these theories. the off,
'cials are now endeavoring to locate
the whereabouts of Carlos Tresca, an
anarchist. once tried in Chicago. dur
ing the war time. for conspiracy to
defeat military policies Of the United
States. -
Pietro Baldesserotto, anarchist,
fhasacterized some time ago by At
rprney GsQefsl A. Mitchell Palmer an
. "dangerous public enemy
Serafino Grandi. anarchist, once con-
ssicted in Italy for revolutionary ac-
rtivities.
Rugero Bacini. anarchist. alleged
participant in the bomb plots Of June
2, 1913. following which he ded to
Italy. He Is now believed to have re-
turned to~this country
Roberto Ella, anarchist, active in
the bomb plot of June 2, 1918.
Various other members of the LEra
Nuova group, which formerly had
headquarters at Paterson. N. IL the
Gallant group. whose dual home were
in Boston and Lynn. Mass. and the
Groupa Propensa of Pailadelphia, as
well as certain followers of Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman.
1t is to the Gallant group. with
which the 1--WE named have long been
identified. that the Department of JUS
tice officials are looking for solu
tion of this latest outrage.
These are disciples of Luigi Gallant,
himself a pupil of the notorious NAL
atesta Of Italy. Gallant was pub
Usher Of the notorious Cronaca
Soversiva at Lynn, Mass He was
deported because OF his inflammatory
utterances- He was succeeded, ac-
cording to Attorney General Palmer.
by Carlos Tresca, who had previously
cities.
Gallant. in company with his
teacher. Malatesta. is now publishing
the same journal in Milan. Italy. To
his activities officials here credit the
bomb explosion of Friday in the
Genoa bourse.
To the Gallant was traced the bomb
explosions of June 2. 1919. mainly
through the efforts of the red SQUAD
of the New York department OF JUS
1ice.
At this time nine explosions occur
red in widely scattered parts of the
nation. Among these were the home
Of Attorney General Palmer, in
Washington: Mayor Harry l. Davis
of Cleveland. Ohio. who had been ac-
tive in the prosecution Of Ella Sa-
gaia and CaS1O Lodi, anarchists Of
the Gallant group; Justice Charles
c. Notts. jr., Of New York city. who
sentenced two men in connection with
the plot to blow up st. Patrick's
Cathedral in New York, and Judge
W. P. Thompson of Pittsburgh. Pa.
who presided at prosecution Of
Carlo Tresca some years ago.
At each place of explosion pink cir
culars entitled plain Words and
signed ''The Anarchist Fighters" were
found. In this document three sig
nificant phrases are found:
There will have to be murder: theirs
will have to be destruction. We viii
speak the voice of dynamite, through
The mouth of guns"
Circulars Are Clue
The June 2. 1919 explosions followed
the unsuccessful May day. 1919, Gimbel
bombs. Officials declare that the
!; Gallant group were responsible for
both-they failed the first time and
succeeded the last.
In a mail box a few hundred feet
from the Wall street explosion on
Thursday were found a number of
circulars printed with a rubber stamp.
"Rimember we will not tolerate any
longer. Free the political prisoner or
it will be sure death for all of you,'
they read. They were signed Amer
l Jean Anarchist Fighters" the name
signed to the pink circulars Of the
June 3. 1919, outrage, with the addi-
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