Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-18
Warned
FRIENDS OF BLAST
TWO WEEKSAG0
Suffering From "Mania De-
pressive Psychosis,"
! Physician Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

I, HAMILTON, Ont. September 1s.-A
legal fight loomed today over extra
dition of Edward Fischer. detained
here in connection with warnings he
issued concerning; the New York ex-
plosion. IN
| Counsel for Esscher. forn4pF tepais
| star, insist that. having bean d5udxed
/ |ffs4n By me Hamilton lunaey COM
mission after his arrest here yester-
day. he cannot be removed from
Canada. ~
United States secret service men
here claim. that some years ago Els
cher vas detained in an asylum in the
United States and that this paves the
way for his immediate deportation
from Canada. ~ M I.
The local police this morning re-
ceived the following telegram from
Inspector Lahey of the. New York
Hold Edward Fischer. Our sdetec-
tive. Mccoy. left for Hamilton this
morning" go n
r. A. Pope. Fischer's brother-in-law,
who yesterday informed the police
where the tennis man could be found,
left for New York late last night.
Pope, a landscape gardener with
offices in New York. said he, was going
there because relatives teiepho1ed
they were being worried to death
by police and reporters"
| Asked for DepoFtatiSh.
| immigration Officer Sweeney an
nounced this morning that he had ap-
! piled to the immigration department
at Ottawa for deportation Of Fischer
as an undesirable alien. In his letter
Iof application he asserted that Fischer
White Plains, N. Y, and that when
| he crossed the border he did not pre-
sent his credentials.
! Before leaving for New York Pope
told Of an attempt at suicide. which he
said Fischer had made about fifteen
years ago. during an attack 6f de-
spondency. According to Pope Fischer
climbed out on the Suspension bridge at
| Niagara Falls and lowered himself so
that he hung from the trcstle. AZ he
was about to lose his grasp. Pope said.
| Fischer had a vision in which his
mother urged him not to destroy HIM
! SELF He scrambled back on the bridge
and returned home.
His mother had been asleep at the
time her son was hanging from the
| trestle. Pope said. and in a dream had
seen her son there in the shadow Of
death.
American ofYicials are investigating a
! statement credited to Fischer that he
had been In communication with the
wife of one Of the best explosive ex-
pcftS IN lne OnlteQ states.
BY the Associa ted Press.
NEW YORK. September 1s.-Edwin
p. Fischer. detained in Hamilton, Ont.
in connection with the investigation OF
the Wall Street explosion, warned fel-
low tennis players as much as two
weeks ago to take "tip" and get their
money out of the banks because Some
thing is going to happen" according to
a&statement today by J. p. Allen, ten
mis- expert. who frequently played with
Fischer himself city champion.
Fischer. according to the statement
entered the West Side Tennis Club here
during the recent tournament and with
no attempt at secrecy asked Allen II he
had any money deposited in a bank
Answered in the affirmative he told him
to draw it out" and to have the ''cast
where you can get it when you want 1t.
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