The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
$4,000 TO FIND
BOMB SOLUTION
Worldwide Search Instituted
for Perpetrators of Wall
Street Blast.
BURNS AGENCY RETAINED
Identity of Party Launching
Campaign to Discover Grim
inals Not Disclosed.
BURNS AGENCY RETAINED

The Wall street bomb mystery
with its toll of death and destruction
was forced into prominence again
yesterday when persons who chose to
remain unidentified caused a private
detective agency to offer a reward Of
$4,000 for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the plotters
Circulars and advertisements Offering
the reward will be published in every
part of the world At the same time
the William j. Burns Detective
Agency, through which the reward is
offered, undertook a worldwide search.
The offer was surrounded with mys-
terry which the Burns agency refused
to clear.
With the offer of the reward it was
evident that whoever is putting up
the big sum is launching an expensive
campaign to give 1t wide prominence
The advertising columns of news
papers are to be used in connection
with handbills and pamphlets, it was
stated by Sherman Burns one of the
agency representatives.
The bomb was exploded at noon. Sep
tember 16 Thirty-nine persons lost
their lives and three times that number
suffered injury. Property loss was esti-
mated to reach into the millions.
The circular. copies OF which were
placed in the mails yesterday. reads:
100000 REWARD.
For evidence given to this agency
exclusively prior to February 1st,
1921, which will lead to the arrest
and conviction OF the persons re-
sponsible for the explosion at Wall
street, near Broad street. New York
City, September 16, 1920.
A portion of1the above reward will
be paid for information furnished
the undersigned exclusively on any
of the following points:
i The identity of the driver Of the
wagon hauling the explosive.
The identity OF the ownership of
the horse and wagon.
3 The identity of the person or
persons who manufactured the
bomb.
Facts that will materially aid
in disclosing the identity of any
Individual implicated in this
crime.
The source OF all information given
undersigned will be treated In strict
est confidence.
THE WILLIAM J. BURNS INTER
NATIONAL DETECTIVE
AGENCY. INC.
40 Woolworth Building. New York
City. Telephone Barclay 1900.
Speculation as to who is Offering the
reward failed to solve the mystery.
1t was believed that it might be the
relatives of one of the men or women
who lost their lives In the blast Equal
emphasis was placed on the suggestion
that one of the banking firms in the
financial district. such as J. +. Morgan
& Co, might have retained the detec-
tive agency to handle the reward and
the search.
The rewards now standing for infor-
nation leading to the capture and con-
viction Of the bomb plotters who ex-
ploded the Wall street Internal machine
were raised to n total of s70.55O by the
myste rious offer Of S5O.000 yesterday.
Soon after the Investigation was be-
gun the city offered $4,000. A second
reward, one of 10000 was offered by
the Preferred Accident Insurance Com
pany. Another reward OF $500 was
offered by the city for information lead
carried the bomb. and Army Transport
Post. No. TAI, OF the American Legion.
completed the total with an offer. OF $50.