The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
WALL STREET BOMB CHARGED ID LABOR
 OR SyMPATH|zERS
New York World Claims to Have Solved Explosion MyS- tery Through Its Own
 Investigation
By Associated Press

Identity of the blacksmith who shod the horse which hauled the wagon load of explosives into Wall street shortly before the disaster September 16 in which 39 persons were killed and scores injured, has been es- abolished.
 Acting Inspector coughlin, head of the police detective bureau made this announcement tonight At the same time he said his men also have estab- lished the identity of the man who took the animal to be shod and that they are now seeking him. He ap- parently has vanished, 1t was said, Fur ther than this the police announcement did not go.
 The statement of Inspector Coughlin followed closely upon the publication by the New York Evening" World to- day of three-page article, declaring the mystery solved" and charging re- sponsibility for the explosion to in- dividual laboring men or synpa thizers who considered they had been injured by the alleged building trades graft" now under investigation.
 New York, November Responsibility for the disastrous Wall street explosion last September was charged today to in- dividual laboring men or labor sympa- thizers by the New York Evening World The paper. however. admitted it could not explain presence of threats signed
 anarchist fighters, found in a mail box near the scene of the explosion. In three-page story, the paper an- nounced that the mystery of the blast that killed nearly 40 persons and in- Jured 150 more had been 'solved.' The theory advanced was that the death. wagon in which the bomb had exploded had not been sent into the financial district to terrorize the capitalist class" but that it had been intended as a re- prisal against Robert P. Brindell. pres ident of the building trades council, and S5 Brindell workers.
 l Held up on the way, the bomb was believed by the paper to have exploded before it reached it's designated destina- 1 ton.
 1 Seeking to link the explosion with the | building trust graft now being in- yestigated by joint legislative conn mittee the paper, naming 9 house. | NLechGfS un1Oni Safd. ',fhe Evening World here presents
 proof that 1900 men, nearly all foreign born. sober, industrious. efficient and
 well-disciplned-have within space of
 eighteen months been subjected to an
 amazing conspiracy of greed and in- 1 justice and the explosion was the cuL
 imitation of this tyranny. Tho building 1 trades graft was responsible for ths crime. The Evening World does not
 charge the union, as 8 union, with re- 1 sponsiblity. It was the work of in- dividuals possibly. inside the union. pos-
 sibly the work of sympathizers. 1 Further proofs are presented that the
 wrath and resentment of these working
 men and their fellows who knew of their tragic losing fight to avert vagrancy and starvation in days of overflowing labor
 opportunity was centered not only on 1 their arch oppressor, Robert F. Brindeil. 1 dictator of the building trades council, 1 but upon house wrecker contractors"
 SCANNING RECORDS l The police and agents of the depart
 lnent of justice the paper asserts, today are busy looking through the member ship rolls of house-wreckers union No. i 95, to find men who might have been
 so false 10 modern labor union princi- 1 pies and the teaching of Gompcrs and 1 Frayne and their own outspoken ad- l vocate of law and order. William Za- ranko. as to blacken their organization $ 1 good name by crime of private ven- geance as horrible and wicked as the l Wall street explosion"
 1 District Attorney swann this after- noon announced he had invited every l person mentioned in the newspaper story ' to be at his office tomorrow afternoon. 1 He added that if they had any infor-
 nation likely to result in indictment of guilty parties. he would immediately 1 place it before the October regular grand
 jury. which has already investigated the 1 disaster.
 l "Zaranko. who has appeared as a wlt-
 ness in the building trust investigation,
 this afternoon denounced the newspaper story.
 1 The story stressed charge that eff
 forts had been made by unnamed per-
 sons to prevent evidence relating to the lcatastrophe from coming to light. It | was brought out that man who was lalleged to have claimed ownership of 1 the horse which drew the death wagon immediately after the blast and who spoke of the boss who had directed him to drive the conveyance to Wall
 and. Broad streets, had disappe lred. One of the men to whom he told his { story. who persisted in repeating it,
 was the victim of an attempted assas- isination within month according 10 the story. despite the fact that he had gone dumb
 This man, at whom three shots were fired one night in October, the story declared was Raymond Clark, -hisf foreman of a gang of house wreckers
 who were tearing down the stock ex- Ichange annex. Clark, it continues, is Ia Brindel lieutenant, though emplo oyed by firm of building contractors.
 AFRAID TO TALK
 within the present week." the story continued, "the Evening World has found two business men of high stand- ing to whom Clark told it the aftec- tContinued on Page Sixtecn)