Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-21
POST CARD WARNING
SAYS SECOND BLAST
IS DUE ON TUESDAY
Police Fail SO Far to Find
Missing Wagon Driver,
Shortage of Explosives Is
Reported

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O-A post
card, warning that an attempt would
be made tomorrow to blow up the
customs house, after the Wall street
explosion last Thursday, was re-
ceived in the mail today by William
b. Edwards, 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 said that the Gus
toms house, already under heavy
guard, would be blown up at p. M
Mr.. Edwards said that a preliminary
investigation had shown no evidence
of plot. and he was inclined to re-
gard the warning as a hoax.
+ Officials of the department OF
justice regard the. warning as
the work of a crank. They said
that a person intending to cause
such an explosion would hardly
warn the authorities about it hours
in advance. ~
Fischer to Appear
Included among those to be exam
Ind was Edwin P. Fischer, arrested
in Canada, who arrived here this
forenoon in custody of detec-
tlVes. Fischer has testified to hav-
Ing sent warnings of the disaster to
number of friends here, but au-
thorities attach little significance to
his story because of his recognized
eccentricities.
Attorney General Palmer was . ex-
pected to return here during the day
and resume personal charge of the
investigation by the department of
justice.
Efforts to identify the owner of
the horse which drew the wagon
supposed TO carry the Internal ma.
chine were continued. Although John
Haggerty, the farrier, has identified
the shoes Of the dead horse as those
he had attached two weeks ago. faint
nope was expressed of being able to
trace the owner Of the animal, since
Haggerty could recall no unmistaka-
bic Identifying features of the own
er. He identified the shoes simply
tbecause they bore a certain mark
common to all his handwork and not
distinguished by this particular job.
Body Identified
Inc body of the one victim Of the
Wall street explosion, which had re-
manned unidentified, was recognized
at the morgue today by Mrs. oliver
kehrer, of Brooklyn, as her son, Ell
mer Kehrer. twenty-one-year-old
chauffeur. ..t
Kehrer had been out of work and
looking for employment. Mrs. Kehrer
said, adding that the youth had made
his home with her at 422 South
Fourth street.
Considerable Importance had been
attached to the fact that Kehrer had
remained unidentified so long. Off.
cial opinion different over the theory
that this lack of identification might
signify fear to recognize him By
persons of questionable character.
Federal agents today were inv.
tigating a report that the fire do
partme1t had learned. by checking
up all stores Of explosives lawfully
held in the city, that there was "a
distinct shortage in one of the ex-
plosives magazines. Fire department
officials gave no hint as to the To-
cation Of the reported shortage, but
claimed this new clue might have an
important bearing on the discovery
Of the supposed plotters of the dis
aSter.
Fischer Arrives
Edwin P. Fischer. who warned his
friends to keep out of Wall street
before the explosion there last week,
arrived here today from Hamilton,
Ont, accompanied by detectives.
Fischer picked up two cigars from
the floor of the Grand Central sta
ton, but they were taken away
from him by detectives, who said
they might contain poison or notes.
'They look like pretty good ci-
CARS" commented Fischer with .
smile.
Fischer was not handcuffed and he
led the procession of police and
newspaper men, stepping briskly
into the subway train which convey
ed them down town. He is a big
man. and was the most conspicuous
figure in the group. At headquar-
tiers he was taken into the office OF
Chief Inspector Lahey.
a.. Had a Permonidon
When posing for camera men.
Fischer was asked to remove his hat.
This brought an exclamation.
Have a hearth he cried.
Requested to talk, he said: oh,
talk my eye!"
Pm in the hands of my friends
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