Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-22
MET WALL STREET
DEATH CART DRIVER
Workmen Declare Stranger
Told Them His Team Was
Blown Up
REVIVE ACCIDENT THEORY
BY the Associated Press

New York, Sept. 22.-Four workmen
appeared at the municipal building to :
day and declared they had spoken with
the driver of the death wagon that fig
ured in the Wall street explosion last
Thursday.
Particular interest was taken In their
story, for investigators vainly had
sought to establish the identity Of the
driver among the dead or the living.
The workmen said that FIVE or ten
minutes after the explosion of n bomb,
believed to have been placed in the
wagon, n man approached them when
they were standing in front of build
ing being razed in the Wall street dis
| trict.
According to their story, the stranger
said his horse and wagon had been
blown up after he had left the vehicle
to telephone to his employer.
He said he had been ordered to take
building materials to Wall and Broad
streets, but he had been unable to find
the indefinite address given him. After
| talking to the workmen, he disappeared,
| they said.
The workmen, employed by house
| wrecking concern, described the
stranger as either a Slav or German.
about five feet seven inches. and weigh
ing 100 to 10 pounds. He wore a
dark blue serge suit. they said.
/ Miss Rebecca Epstein. a twenty
year. old stenographer. who claims to
have seen the driver Of the death wagon
before the explosion, previously had told
the district attorney that he wore brown
overalls.
The workmen's story served to re-
vive an early theory that the explosion
may not have been due to bomb plot,
| but to a collision between an automobile
and wagon filled with explosives.
| While waiting to be quizzed by Of
ficials of the fire department. at whose
Office they appeared, the workmen told
reporters that many contractors working
in the financial district, when In need
Of explosives, frequently sent any kind
Of wagon for them. without going to
the trouble of obtaining a permit for
their transfer.
Warning that the Brooklyn postofice
should be cleared at IL 10 a. m. Sat
urday" was received there today on a
postcard. 1t was characterized as q
! joke by r. NJ. Gardner. collector of in
ternal revenue, but he took measures Ia
| guard the structure.
Cleveland. Sept. 22.-(By A. P.)--
Postmaster Murphy received an nnony-
nous letter at noon today saying that
two wagon loads of high explosives were
being brought into the city and tina,
the Federal Reserve Bank. the Union
National Bank and the Citizens Saw
ings and Trust Co. were to be blown ur
before nightfall. Federal authoritic.
communicated with the police and au'
tomoblcs filled with detectives and no.
lice reserves were rushed to each Of the
institutions.
Boston, Sept. 22.--(By A. P.)-Th'
entrances to City Hall were placed
under extra police guard today aftel
receipt of a second threatening com
muncation by Mayor Peters.
Watch your building. We are her,
from New York. We will get you,
the letter read. The signature wa
"HWTX." The letter was mailed il
the Charlestown district yesterday.
Mayor Peters said he was inclined
to regard both the communication o
today and a somewhat similar one re
ceived yesterday as the work of jokers