New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-18
Attorney General Arrives
With Caravan; Takes Per-
sonal Charge of Search
for Wall Street Plotters
Roundup of All
Radicals Forecast
Deportation of Criminal
Alien Anarchists by U. S.
Likely Will Be Renewed

Attorney General A. Mitchell Paine,
arrived in this city last night from
Washington with his assistant, Fran
CTS +. Garvan, who has charge of the
investigation of radical activities, anC
took up at once the inquiry into the
Wall Street explosion. He said that he
had planned the trip to New York be.
fore the explosion, but now that he
was here would make a personal in
vestigation.
AT present." he said, ~ believe this
to be the result of criminal conspir-
acy. ! hope that further developments
may tend to prove the contrary-that
1t was an accident-but all the present
indications are that it was a deliberate
outrage"
Mr.. Palmer said that almost the en-.
tire field force of the Department OF
Justice had been assigned to tasks that
it was hoped would Iced to the solution
OF the mystery surrounding the disas.
ter. His department, he said, was fa,
fairs than it was six months ago, the
cut of $4,000 which Congress made
IN its appropriation having necessi-
tated reduction Of onc-third in the
number OF operatives.
Criminal Act" He Says
If it is found" he said, that the ex-
pioslon in Wall Street was beyond
doubt criminal act we may, with the
support of public opinion, be able to
take more drastic action with relation
to the deportation of alien criminal
anarch ists--the only class we have been
depor;ing."
1t was called TO the Attorney Cen
erals attention that the anarchistic
circulars found in lettes box at Cedar
Street and Broadway at about the time
of the explosion demanded the release
OF political prisoners, and he was asked
II he thought there was any connection
between the explosion and the appeal
which Socialists and labor leaders made
to nm tuesday in behalf of such pris-
oners. Mr.. Palmer said that he thought
any such suspicion was absurd.
He will return to WASHINGTON to-
night. Mr.. Garvan will remain here
until tomorrow night.
From The 7ribunc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. Convinced
that the explosion yesterday in the
heart of the New York financial dis
trict, in which thirty-three persons los,
their lives and 400 were injured. was
the work of radicals, the Department,
of Justice to-day launched a nation.
wide hunt for those guilty of the crime
The heads Of the Department of Jus.
tlce hurried to New York after they
had received information from Will
lam J. Flynn, director of the Bureau
OF investigation in the department, tina,
convinced them that the explosion was
the result of bomb plot.
1T was said at tie department TO-DAY
that general roundup Of radicals is
being considered but decision as ia
whether dragnet will be thrown out
IN all effort to capture the Reds whom
Flynn believes u be guilty Of the ex-
plosion and prevent similar crimes in
other cities rests with Mr.. Palmer.
The departments plans for handling
the situation depend upon the result of
the investigation in New York by Flynn
Palmer and Caravan, it was said at the
Offices here.
Series of Bomb Plots
The bureau of investigation in the
department has the records of and in
formation regarding nearly every radi
cal leader in the country, and it was
through these records, it was stated
that the authorship of a letter of warn
ing to New York broker was placed
upon Edward P. Fischer. who was ar
rested in Toronto. Can. Fischer, it was
said has been under surveillance for
some time.
In government circles the explosion
is regarded as being another Of q
series of bomb plots that started with
the attempt to blow up the home of
Attorney General Palmer here about
year ago. The bomb in that case was
placed several feet beyond the build
ing line and outside Of thc Paine.
house.
The local police declared that since
the placing of The bomb a. the Palmer
home the radicals who were in Wash
ington at the time have fed. They
were unable to withs.a land the close
surveillance, Inspector Grant, of the
Detective Bureau, declared, and went
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