The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-10-07
Arrest Made in Pittsburgh May
.. Develop Valuable
Lead.
Examiner IN CUSTODY
Department of Justice Agents Hold
Florean ZeIenaka Because of Sua-
gestive Remarks He Made
About Catastrophe. 4

Pittsburgh, Information OBJ
tanned from Florean Zelenaka Of
Brooklyn, recently arrested with dyna-
mite in his possession, may lead to a
solution of the Wall street explosion,
according to police and government
agents.
Zelenaka was taken at a hotel after
a fight with police. He had been en-
route from Cincinnati to New York
and his remarks on the train brought
about his arrest.
Authorities were retioent about
their questioning, but it was claimed
clues Zelenaka furnished may lead to
scores Of arrests in Brooklyn and New
York.
He is alleged to have remarked to
a train companions:
Tell them I will have the stuff
there tomorrow Another remark at
tributed to him as he was being placed
in his cell was:
See what we did in Wall street.
Next time it will be bigger and more
terrible. The last was only a start"
They expressed the opinion that
%Zelanaka, who formerly worked in. the
mines Of West Virginia, had obtained
his dynamite there.
Steam Filter Gave the Tip.
New York...Leon Konkel, a steam
filter, the man who gave the Pitts
burgh authorities the information
which led to the arrest here of Florean
Zelenala of Brooklyn in connection
with the Wall street bomb explosion,
has arrived here from Pittsburgh to
tell his story to the federal authorities.
Konkel told the agents of the de-
partment Of justice that while he was
travelling from Cincinnati to Pitts
burgh with Zelenaka the latter in
formed him he had explosives and
gloated over>the Wall street explosion.
Konkel said he had him arrested after
he had seen dynamite in his suitcase
at a Pittsburgh hotel.
If KOnkel's information leads to So
luton Of the New York mystery, he
is eligible for the $4,000 reward Of
fered for tips leading to arrest Of the
guilty parties.
After questioning Konkel, a New
Yorker, at length, officials of the de-
partment Of justice declared he had
been able to give them no information
that tended directly to connect Zelen-
aka with the Wall street explosion.
Renewed Energy in Search.
New York.-Renewed vigor was in
stilled into the investigation of the
origin Of the mysterious Wall street
explosion on September 16, as a re-
suit of the arrest at Pittsburgh of
Florean Zelenaka. Department of
Justice agents said they attached spe-
cial significance to the arrest.
On learning of Zelenaka's arrest in
Pittsburgh where a suit case filled
with dynamite was found in his room,
federal agents visited the Brooklyn ad-
dress he gave when arrested and es-
tablished these facts:
That Zelenaka left his room at 40
Cleveland street in the foreign section,
an hour or more before the disaster.
That he carried a reddish-yellow
bag; that he formerly was employed
by the Hercules Powder company ;
that he left in his room a large guam.
tity Of alleged radical Russian litera-
ture.
In a foreign made trunk left by Ze-
lenaka was a Russian passport issued
in 1918.
Tracing Russian Gold.
Washington. - Inquiry into the
source of the recent shipment of Rus
sian gold to the United States has
been ordered by the department of
justice. Belief exists at the depart
ment that the gold may be a part of