The Washington herald., 1920-09-18
New York Blast Laid to Men
Who Tried to Blow Up
Residence Here.
PAMPHLETS IN. MAILS
Circulars Signed American
Anarchists Found Near
Wall Street.

New York's bomb explosion, which
wrought devastation of l:fe and
buildings Thursday noon, was the
work of anarchists of the same ring
who bombed the home of Attorney
General Palmer here June ?, last
year, according to Information re-
vealed by the Department of Justice
here last night.
\ large number of signs with the
inscription: Remember, We will no.
tolerate any longer. Free the po-
litical prisoners or il will be sure
death for all of you" and signed
American Anarchist Fighters" were
found in a street letter box at the
southwest corner of Cedar street
and Broadway at ll:3S a. m. the
day of the explosion, by David Co
hen. a letter carrier of the Hudson
Terminal Postottice station.
Signatures the Same.
The pamphlets were printed in red
ink with rubber stamps. The sig
nature Anarchist Fighters is the
same as was signed to the pam
phlets Plain Words" found in the
vicinity OF Attorney General Pal
mer's home here On r street be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty-first
streets the night of the attempt to
blow up his residence. The carrier
of the bomb al that time was killed
in planting it.
Attempts to round up members
of the plot to bomb Attorney Cen
eral Palmer's home and also eleven
other prominent homes Of prominent
government officials the same night
were frustrated when a prisoner
claimed by Department of Justice
officials to be the connecting link
with the ring. Committed suicide
by jumping from the window of the
Bureau of Investigation OF the De-
partment of Justice at New York.
Get CIcws From Flynn.
Director Flynn Of the Bureau OF
Investigation of the Department OF
Justice, now in charge of squad
of agents of the department at New
York. forwarded the information OF
the pamphlets to Attorney General
Palmer's' office last night. Robert
Scott, secretary to Attorney General
Palmer declared it was most sig
nifiCant in the eyes of the depart
ment men investigating the case.
The pamphlets headed plain
Words" found here at the time OF
the bomb explosion at Attorney
General Palmer's home read in part:
There will have to be bloodshed.
We will not dodge. We will kill
because it Is necessary. There will
have to be destruction. We will
destroy to rid the world of your
tyranical institutions"
Pardons Asked Tuesday.
Significant with the bomb ex-
plosion in New York was the request
made to, Attorney General Palmer
Tuesday for full freedom to all po-
litical prisoners. at the request of
the executive committee of the So
cialist party. James O'Neil. Bertha
Malley and George Rover, members
of the committee. appeared before
Attorney General Palmer. They
were assured that fifteen prisoners
would be freed within the next
pending before the department and
$50 prisoners will still be in custody.
Robert Scott. Attorney General
d fltI X seer GAdINs ldSt week called
attention to the fact that the ap-
preparation for the Department OF
Justice had been cut about one-third
by Congress. Three weeks after
the department was forced to reduce
its force because of a cut in appro-
priatiOns this outrage was perpe-
trated," he said.
Seek Record of Suspect.
Immediately after getting the
news of E. p. Fischer's arrest at
Ontario. Canada. yesterday officials
of the Department of Justice and
Military Intelligence started
search through records to see if
they. had any account of his prev
ious activities. They refused to
state what the results were.
William II. Moran, chief of the
Secret Service Bureau, said yester-
day that the investigation in the
New York explosion would not lead
to Washington as far as he knew.
He said only the usual guard Of
buildings here was being MAIN
tanned.
Inspector Grant, chief of detec-
tives. declared no additional details
for protection of public buildings
here had been made by the detec-
tive bureau but that a close watch
was being maintained by his force.