The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-17
ALLEGE REDS
RESPONSIBLE
FOR CRIME
IS and Probably More Daad
and 100000 Property
Loss is Latest.
BY FRANK cHARLToN

treasury today furnished the chief cue
upon which the federal state aad
city authorities are now desperate
at work - run down the plotters
who exploded the I =. r bomb !.
Wall Street that wrecked The Offices
OF j. p Morgan Co. and kaIed
thirty persons.
ANARCHISTS RESPONSIBLE
secret service agents and oticisIs
of The police department. and the dis
trict attorneys office said thar tne
discovery of the shattered clock .ro-x.
confirm the theory that ter-ortst.
probably anarchists, We're responsible
for the blast
With all public buildings and the
churches and the residence Of 7 p
Morgan in this city under heavy T,la.a
nation-w search Is being made 70
run down the plotters The clock
works are being studied by experts %
determine their manufacture and tae
source.
OTHER LINKS IN CHAIN
NO arrests have been made The
man who drove the one-horse truck
carrying the most powerful internal
machine ever devised In this country
disappeared in the Wall Street crowds
as completely as though the earth rad
opened and swallowed them up.
Other important links have been
forged in the chain Of evidence to
prove that conspiratcrs carefully plan
ned the outrage. The police have
learned that warnings Of a catastro-
phe in the financial district were re-
ceived in advance by at least two per-
sons.
WARNING TO F'RENCHMAE
one OF these warnings oauae to Lieut..
Arnaud. chief OF the French high com
mission. on Wednesday. The other
was received by George Ketchledse.
az employe Of the brokerage of =
F. Schwartz & Co., at No ? Broad
way, also on Wednesday, Both warn
iDgs are said to have been sent by
former employe of the French aiaa
commission. His name is IN posses
sion Of the authorities and search .s
being made for him
THIRTY VOW DEAD
While soldiers with fxed bgyonets
paced up and down in front Of the L.
; sub-treasurs building throughout
the night feverish search was mace
OF the debris in and around tn. No.
gan offices for additional dad ana
bomb evidence. The original estimate
OF "a dead was Increased 10 40 Nv
deaths Of injured and 1t was reported
today that this total may be Increase,
as some Of the injured are in serious
condition.
The property damage from the blast
is put at s2,5oo.ooe.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS GUARDED
On the assumption that the wall
Street explosion was the beginning Of
a wave Of red terrorism, public Of
hcials have been warned 20 eunlov
body guards. Picked men from the
police department are guarding the
homes Of public officials. wall and
Broad Street. the financial capital OF
the world" is like an armed camp
with soldiers. policemen and special
armed guards on duty The Stock
Exchange building and the great banks
in the Wall Street district are picket
ed. A new police dead line has been
established.
GENERAL POLICE ALARM
Every person who crosses it is close
ly scruitinized as well as every ve-
hicle. A general police alarm has
been sent out for missing or stolen
one horse trucks, such as that in which
the time bomb was carried to the Nor
gan bank. The broken parts OF the
wagon. which was demolished BY the
detouation. have been pieced together
as we'll as possible and the police are
now trying to find the owner of 1t.
ANARCHIST LISTS SEARCHED
That the plotters have an efficient
organization with secret sources Of in
torma tion is indicated by the fact that
the explosion occurred just "a hours
after the special bomb squad oper-
atives Of the police department. were
Withdrawn from the financial district
Lists of all the dangerous anarch-
sts in the L. S. are being carefully
checked over by the government
sleuths. The federal end Of the IN
is directed by wm. J.
Flynn, head Of the L. S. secret service,
= no is on the ground in person
SOURCES OF INQUIRY
Police Commissioner Enright has
divided the police investigation along
he following lines:
i. Tracing the writer of the warn
ng letters. which are now in the pos
session of the police department
2 Searching for the owner Of r.
me horse wagon in which the bomb
vas carried to Wall Street
). Hunting for an automobile IN
which the men who drove the wagon
ire said TO have fed a few moments
,efore the explosion
WHENCE CAME T. n t
s. Tracing the sources Of the cloc5
which was used to set off the bomb a
me minute after 70 o'clock Thursday
con.
8. Hunting for the source Of ths
! y. T. or other explosives that wa
sed in the construction of the infer
ial machine.
8. Ascertaining where the bom5
vas constructed and how many per
ons We're involved in the conspsr-
cy.
LETTER Not IN MAILS
The warning letter sent to Lieut.
Arnaud did not arrive through the
nails. 1t was dropped through the
lot in tho door of the commission
nice at SIS Broadway on wednesdsv
aorning The letter was written
With pen and ink and pined with the
rord Greetings" L was contained
n small white envelope But Ar
aud DID not take the warning seri-
usiy After reading H. he tore TIE
atters into bits. dropped il into
-astepaper basket and forgot al
bout it--untii after the Wall stree
istrict was rocked by til. most ghast
explosion in Sew Ycyks history.
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