The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-20
WALL ST, BLAST
FAILED TO BLOW
ANY TO ATOMS
Ali Dead From Explosion Are
Now Accounted for.
Warning of New Catastrophe Is
Received by Official.
GRAND JURY PROBE STARTS
Fanatic Who Warned of Ex-
pIOsiOn Brought From Canada.
His Eccentricities May Cause
His Case To Be Dropped.
PALMER DIRECTS MAN HUNT
Last of Victims at MOrgHe Iden-
tilted by Mother.
Farrier Remembers Horse But
Not Owner of Fatal Wagon.
Fanatic Who Warned of Ex-
pIOsiOn Brought From Canada.
PALMER DIRECTS MAN HUNT
Last of Victims at MOrgHe Iden.
tilted by Mother.
Farrier Remembers Horse But
Not Owner of Fatal Wagon.

New York, Sept 2O.-A postcard
warning that an attempt would be
made tomorrow to blow up the Gus
toms house after the Wall street ex-
plosion last Thursday was received in
the mail today by VIM. B. Edwards.
collector of internal revenue for this
district
This postcard. signed "A citizen"
was turned over to the custodian of
the building by Mr.. Edwards. who
also notified Postmaster Thomas C.
Patten. The department of justice,
too, was informed OF receipt of the
postcard. The warning said that the
customs house already under heavy
guard. would be blown up at 2 p. m.
Mr.. Edwards said that a preliminary
investigation had shown no evidence
Of a plot and he was inclined to re-
gard the warning as hoax.
Officials of the department Of JUS
tice regarded the warning as the work
of a crank. They said that a person
would hardly warn the authorities
about /: hours in advance.
Fischer Arrives in New York.
Edwin P. Fischer. who warned his
friends to keep out of Wall street be-
fore the explosion there last week. ar
rived here today from Hamilton. Ont,
accompanied by detectives.
There was no formal charge against
Fischer. He was arrested in HaTnii-
ton on a charge of insanity preferred
by Robert Pope, his brother-in-law,
and agreed to come to New York to
answer questions as to where he got
his advance information about a dis
aster in Wall street.
At police headquarters Fischer
stuck to his statement that 1t was a
premOnition that warned him in ad-
vance of the Wall street explosion,
adding:
More will happen in the future
Unseen powers have communicated
that thru me"
The detectives who brought him
here from Hamilton, explained that
Fischer invariably had made the same
assertions in reply to their questions
thruout the trip, adding that he was
a friend of the under dog
None Blown to Atoms.
Maurice Davis, superintendent of
volunteer hospital, after an extensive
examination of clothing of the victims
of the explosion declared that the
theory that some one may have been
near enough to the explosion to have
been blown to atoms has been mega
tIved.
Mr.. Davis also said that examina-
tion of all the injured did not find a
single glass wound. All were hurt by
other substances. mostly metal, he
said
The police announced today re-
lease OF Alexander Brailovsky, Rus
sian journalist detained after he had
admitted he was near the scene of the
explosion soon after it occurred. The
department OF justice denied reports
that BrailOvsky had been turned over
to them. Both local and federal
authorities declared they had found
there was no evidence on which to
hold the Russian
Officials of the Du POnt Powder
company will be questioned. it was re-
ported; as TO the statement made to
the police that one of their red ex-
plosiVe wagons was not far from
Broad AMI Wall streets a few minutes
before the disaster
Grand Jnry Starts Probe.
The September grand jury was con-
vened today to investigate the ex-
plosion that shook the financial dis
trict last Thursday and eXacted a toll
OF thirty-four lives and injury to nearly
400 others. Subpoenas were issued
for the appearance OF scores of eye
witnesses of the blast.
Included among those to be ex-
amined was Edwin P. Fischer. arrested
in Canada, who has testified to hav-
ing sent warnings Of the disaster to g
number of friends here, but authori.
ties attach little significance to hi.
story because of his recognized eccen.
tricities.
Interest was attached to the further
examination of Alexander BraiIovsky
a Russian journalist, the only man il
New York who has been detained b.
the authorities. who has already testi-
fled to having been in the vicinity o,
the disaster in conversation with com
paniOns shortly after the explosion oc
CURED. He is held without bail as al
undesira bic alien.
Palmer Is on the Job.
Attorney General Palmer was ex
pected TO return here during the da!
and resume personal charge of the in
vestgation by the department of jus
tice. Efforts to identify the owner o
the horse which drew the wagon sup
posed to carry the internal machin'
was continued. Altho John Haggerty
the farrier. who identified the shoe
OF the dead horse as those he had at
tached two weeks ago. faint hope wa
expressed of being able to trace tn
owner of the animal. since Haggert.
could recall no unmistakable identify
ing features of the owner.
He identified the shoes simply be
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