Omaha daily bee., 1920-09-21
Another Bomb
Plot Warning Is
Given in Mail
Postcard Sent to Collector Ed
wards Says Attempt Will
Be Made on Customs
.. House.
Rx The Associated Press.

Ahoooo.he~N
New York, Sept. 20.-A postcard
warning that an attempt would be
made tomorrow to blow up the Gus
toms house, after the Wall street ex-
p1osion last Thursday, was received,
in the mail today by William B. Ed
wards, collector of Internal revenue
for this district.
This postcard, signed "a Citizen"
was turned over to the custodian of
the building by Mr.. Edwards. who
also notified Postmaster Thomas G.
Patten. The DEPARTMENT of Justice,
too. was informed of receipt OF the
postcard.
The warning Did that the e>customs
house, already under heavy guard,
would be blown up at 2 p. m. Mr..
Edwards said that preliminary in
vestigation had shown no evidence
of a plot and he was inclined to re-
gard the warning as hoax.
Last Body Identified.
A few minutes before the warn
ing postcard had been received by
big BiIf' Edwards. who is a for
mer Princeton foot ball star. Edwin
P. Fischer, ex-tennis player, who
sent warnings Of the first explosion
on the strength of an alleged tele-
pathic tip" had declared at police
headquarters on his arrival here
from Canada that more viii hap
pen ,iiD the future"
Unseen powers had communi-
Gated that to me" he said.
Fischer, in July, 1916, annoyed
President Wilson with a series of
letters demanding that he~end the
war!
These letters urged the president
to put an end to the slaughter of hu-
man beings and asked that the writ
er be allowed to visit Washington to
confer with MI. Wilson at the
White House.
Harmless Crank.
FederaItagents admitted that these
letters had been turned over to them
and that they had traced them to
FISCHER.
At that time Fisclienwas reported
by government agents to be harm
less crank and a religious fanatic.
No action was taken against him on
his promise to stop pestering the
president and to keep away frorr
Washington The record of the in
vestigation is preserved in the ar
chives of secret service headquarters
i'll the custom house
The body of the one victim of the
Wall street explosion which had re-
unidentified was recognized
at the morgue today by Mrs. Olive
kehrer of Brooklyn as her son,
Elmer Wallace Kehrer, 2l-year-old
chauffeur. Kehrer had been out of
work and looking for employment,
Mrs. Kehrer said. ~
Grand Jury to Probe.
The September grand jury was
convened today to investigate the
explosion that shook the financial
district last Thursday and exacted
a toll of 81 lives and injury to near
ly 800 others. tSubpoenas were is.
sued for the appearance of scores of
eye witnesses of the blast.
Included among those to be ex-j
amined was Edwin P. Fischer. ar
rested in Canada. Fischer sent warm
ings of the disaster to number of
friends here, bf authorities attach
little significance to his story be-
cause of his recognized eccentricities.
Interest was attached to the
further examination of Alexander
Brailovsky, Russian journalist, the
only man in New York who has
been detained by the authorities,
who has already testified to having
been in-the vicinity when the explo-
sion occurred. He is held without
taIl as an undesirable alien.
: Can't Find Horse Driver.
Efforts to identity the owner of
the horse which drew the wagon
to carry the internal ma
chine were continued. Although
John Haggerty. a farrier, identified
the shoes of the dead horse as those
he had attached two weeks ago. he
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