Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-18
BOMBERS WILL Be
CAUGHT, SAYS FLYNN
Declares They Are Same Crowd
Who Perpetrated Explosions
in June, 1919.
ny Associated press 70 Every Evening

Hy fssfFiateo Press ~ Every Evening
New York, Sept. 1s.-C Confidence that
tho American anarchist fighters' who
are believed now ~ have caused the
disastrous bomb explosion in Wall Street
last Thursday, would be brought 10 JUS
sice. was expressed today by William J
Flynn. chief Of the Bureau Of Investiga-
ton Of the Department ~ Justice
Chief Flynn, who has charge Of the
federal investigation under the personal
supervision Of AttOrney-Ge General Pslner.
said he was certain from the similarity
of circulars found IN mail box near
Wall Street nj the time of the explosion
tn those found az the scene of various
bomb explosions in June, 1919, that the
same crowd Of terrorists was responsible
for both outragea
we bad solved the mysteries n last
years bombs but were frustrated in
bringing the criminals to Justice when
Alfredo Saleaedo, whom We were detain-
ing IN the New York office ~ the bureau.
jumped from fourteenth story window
during the night and committed suicide,
said Flynn. That tipped our hand and
the crowd got safely out Of the country
before We could nab them.
Now in this case we have much more
To work upon AZ the start. The similarity
~ the circulars makes available al our
knowledge of the gang who committed
the outrages last year. Most of this in
formation has never been made public and
IL would not be wise ~ reveal il now. We
even established the Identity ~ one an
archist who was killed by his own bomb IN
last years explosion with much less evi-
dence than VIC have IN the present case.
Torn bits ai f,snk paper we're the only
evidence we had last year. Now we have
whole circulars dropped into a mail box.
presumably by the man who set Of the
bomb, half an hour after a letter carrier
had emptied the box. 10 addition there
are a horse and the broken bits Of wagon
on which the bomb was placed. =
Flynn, who yesterday declined 70 ex-
pand his cryptic announcement that
the driver Of the death wagon was four
blocks away at the time Of the explosion,
today shed more light on this mystery
when he said he was convinced the driver
was the man who despited the anarchist
circulars in the mail box which was 10
Gated four blocks from Wall and Broad
Streets
A blacksmith called at police head
quarters this morning and told Captain
Coughlin he had shod a strange horse last
Tuesday and thought he would be able
to recognize the shoes If he inspected them.
Il was arranged for him TO look at the
shoes later in the day.
Experts examining the new shoes on
the dead horse estimated they had been
on only 4S hours
Department Of Justice officials said to-
day they have not questioned Mead con-
cernIng his announcement that the black
smith who she'd the horse on the death
wagon has been found and that this man
claimed to know the owner of the animal
Mead had not reported for work at the
Morgan Office shortly before noon and
officials there said they did not know his
mot uly was Fischer great player but
he was well liked personally. He competed
In all the important tournaments, winning
the Metropolitan and the New York State
sin giles championships, and once In 1906,
standing as runner up for the indoor ma
tional championship.
apparently association with men OF
wealth turred his mind IN that direction
and ! remember about Is years ago he met
me on Fifth avenue and excitedly ex-
planned that he had plan for making
himself and all his friends extremely
Later | inquired as to the out
come of the scheme and was told by an
other friend that Fischer was 'irreSpoas-
ible and visionary, chiefly on the subject of
money Later the statement was current
in tennis circles that Fischer had suffered a
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