The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-17

n1eCnanlSm a heap of debris in front of the United States Sub-Treasury today furnishes Z the chief clue upon which the Fed eraI, 4x State, and city authorities down the plotters who exploded the TT. NJ IT." bomb in Wall street that wrecked the offices. of J. P. Morgan & Co.,, and killed 30 persons.
 Secret Service agents and officials of the police. department and the dis trict attorneys office said that the discovery Of the shattered clock works confirms the theory that terrorists, probably anarchises, were responsible for the deadly and devastating blast. With all public buildings and churches and the residence of J. P. Morgan in this city under heavy guard a nationwide search Is being made to run down the plotters. The clock works are being studied by ex- perts to determine their manufacture and sources.
 No arrests have been made. The men who drove the one-horse truck, carrying the most powerful internal machine ever devised In the country, disappeared in the Wall street crowds as completely as though the earth had opened and swallowed them up
 Other important links have been forged in the chain of evidence to prove that conspirators carefully planned the outrage. The police have learned that warnings of a catas- trophe in the financial district were received in advance by at least two One of these warnings came to Lieut.. .Arnaud, chief of the French High rf Commission, on "Wednesday. The other was received by George F. Ketchledge, an emp1oye of the brok- craze firm of B. F. Schwartz x Co. t No. Broadway, also on Wednesday, Both warnings are said to have been sent by a former employe of the High Commission. His name is in posses sion of the authorities and search is being made for him.
 While soldiers with fixed bayonets paced up and down. in front of the United States Sub-Treasury building throughout the night feverish search was made of the debris in and around the Morgan offices for add1- tional dead and bomb evidence The original estimate of 24 dead was if- creased to 30 by deaths of injured and it was reported tocay that this total Anay be sipcreased as some of the wounded Are in serious condi- tions.
 The property damage from the blast is put at $2,50O,oOO.
 On the assumption that the Wall Street explosion was the beginning of wave of Red terrorism, public officials have been warned to employ body guards. Picked men from the police department are guarding the homes of public officials. Wall and Broad streets, the 'F'inanciaI Capital of the " World" ld, is like an armed
 
 special armed guards duty. The Stock Exchange building and the great banks in the Wall Street district picketed.
 A new police "dead line' has been established. Every person who cross- es it is closely scrutinized as well as every vehicle.
 A general police alarm has been sent out for missing or stolen one horse trucks, such that in which the time bomb was carried to the Morgan bank The broken parts of the wagon. which was demolished by the detonation have been pieced together as well as possible and the police are trying to find the owner of That the pIotters have an efficient organization with secret sources of information is indicated by the fact that the explosion occurred just 24 hours after the special bomb squad operatives of the police department were withdrawn from the financial district. G
 Lists of all the known dangerous anarchists in the United States are being carefully checked over by the government sleuths. The federal end of the investigation is directed by William J. Flynn, head of the United States Secret Service, who is on the ground :n person.
 Police Commissioner Enright has divided the police along the following lines:
 
 ing letters. which are now in the possession of the police department
 ?. Searching for the owner of the one-horse wagon in which the bomb was carried to Wall Street
 8. Hunting for an automobile in which the men who drove the wagon are said to have fled a fey moments before the explosion.
 4. Tracing the source of the clock which was used to set off the bomb at one minute after 12 o'clock Thurs day noon. a
 5. Hunting for the source of the T. N; T." or other explosive that was used in the construction of the infer nal machine.
 5,tAscertaining where the bomb was Constructed and how mary per. sons were involved in the conspiracy. New York. Sept. 1.-The police are today in possessions of the testnnon of two persons who assert that they saw an automobile load of suspicious looking characters flee from the scene mmediately after the explosion in Wall street yecterday.s5E
 Miss Matilda Schlessssa stenograph- CT in the Wall Street district said:
 Just a second after the explosion l looked out of the window over Wall street, which was full of flame and smoke Directly across the street was a car filled with men. Two more men came running up and one of them wore what looked like a bloody shirt.
 once, -darted away toward t-.e East River. They were all very suspicious looking. This happened before the smoke lad cleared away and before the relief work started.''
 Thomas Le Bourtlier who was call ing in the office in which Miss Schless is employed, bore out her story.
 "I looked ont the window right af- ter the explosion" he told the police ''and i saw d dull grey colored au- tomobi1e moving slowly eastward on Wall street. There were three CT four men in it. Two three others just then came running up to it. They seemed to have been stunned as they stumbled along. Two of them helped a third. They climbed into the car which then speeded away toward the East River"
 The warning letter sent to Lieut.