New-York tribune., 1920-11-12
identity of Man Who Took
Animal to Blacksmith
Also known; Sought in
Wall Street Blast Probe
Story Linking g Labor
With Plot Doubted
william, Zaranko, Head of
Brindell7s Rival Union.
Discredits the Charge


Discovery Of the first definite clcw
to the identity Of the perpetrators of
the bomb explosion that snuffed out
thirty-nine lives in Wall Street Sep
tember 16 last, was announced by the
police yesterday Acting Inspector
Coughlin, head Of the detective bureau,
caid that his men had found the black
smith who shod the horse, whose
mangled carcass was picked UP among
the debris of the wagon that hauled
the death machine to the curb opposite
the Office Of J. T. Morgan & Co. He
added that the identity of the man
who took the animal to be shod was
known, and that the police were seek
ing him.
This police revelation of progress in
IN Investigation that has taxed the
energy and ingenuity OF local, state,
Federal and private agencies followed
on the heels of the publication in
The Evening World Of story exploit
inr the theory that the bomb was in
tended for the destruction of house
wrcckers employed on the site of the
extension to the New York Stock Ex-
change.
Zaranlo Is Questioned
The Evening World hypothesis was
built upon the enmity that exists be-
tween members Of the House Wreck
ers Union No. 90, headed by william.
Zaranko, and Union No. 1885, which
was organized by Robert P. Brindell,
Building Trades Council czar, whose
activities have figured much in the
Lockwood committees housing inquiry
The Zaranko union, 800 strong, has
been driven to desperation during the
last year and half, it was intimated
by Brindell's alleged intimidation of
contractors into discharging Zaranko s
followers and hiring his own, and in
compelling such Of Zaranllo's men as
We're employed on wrecking jobs to
pay $50 initiation fee and $40 q
week dues to the Brindell organization
Zaranko. in response to request
appeared at the Department fof Justice
headquarters in the Park Row Build
ing late yesterday afternoon. He and
his attorney were closeted for an hour
with Charles J. Scully, agent in charge
Of the radical division. When he left
he smilinglv submitted to questioning
by newspaper men, but the net result
Of the Interrogation was the urbane in
slstence by Zaranko that none of the
members Of his union could or would
have conceived or carried out the bomb
plot. Neither their persecution by
Brindell nor the occasional assaults
committed on the men of Local 95 by
Brindellitcs could have instigated suci,
violence, he declared.
Swami Issues Subpnnas
District Attorney Swami has sub
r@nacd all of the persons named in
The Evening World story to appear at
his office for examination at p. m. to
day. Mr.. Swami said he already had
questioned most of them and remark I'd
that The Evening Worlds account of a
statement by one Of them, Raymond
Clark, is at variance with Clark's state
ment to Alfred Z. Talley, chief Assist
ant District Attorney
Department of Justice officials here
and in Washington said they did not
place much credence in the theory, al
though they admitted they had consid-
cred it along with others from the be-
ginning. In the absence of Chief
Flynn none would consent to be quoted
Linked With Foreman's Shooting
The one concrete fact submitted tc
support the theory that hatred of Brin
dell inspired the explosion was tn,
shooting in Long Island City early or
the morning Of October II last of Raw
mond Clark, who was chief foreman 0,
wreckers on the Stock Exchange exten
sion JOB The inference conveyed wat
that Clark was attacked because he wa!
rcputed to have related incidents TAX
ing place Immediately before and aftel
the explosion that appeared to indicat,
that the bomb was meant for the hous,
wreckers, and that only the confusion
Of the wagons driver caused the vehicl,
to be halted $50 feet west Of the build
ing tie.
According to the alleged Clark in
terview, which he later repudiated, tn,
driver was walking about a few min