The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-20
RADICAL CIRCULARS
MAY CLEAR MISTER!
First Definite Clue Found In IT.
vestigating Explosion-Work
OF Anarchists Thinks
Chief Flynn

ed "American Anarchistic Fighters,
which were found in mail box at
Cedar street and Broadway at 1l:5S
a. m. Thursday, furnished the first
tangible clue, they said, to the
identity of the persons who were
responsible for the explosion IN
Wall street which three minutes
later killed 35 persons, injured 2oo
others and caused property damage
running into the millions.
In making public the circulars,
which were printed on cheap paper,
7 by II inches, Chief William J.
FLYNN of the bureau of investigation
OF the department of justice called
attention to the fact that the bombs
sent in the nationwide plot on June
2, 1919, were wrapped in circulars
announcing the coming of the revo-
luton and signed american Anar-
chistic Fighters" The circulars, to
which, he said, he attached the ut
most importance, read: Remember.
We will not tolerate any longer. Free
the political prisoners or it will be
sure death for all of you
The circulars were not inclosed in
envelopes, nor did they bear ad-
dresses. Some of them contained
misspelled words. The time at which
the circulars were placed in the
mail box was. fixed at between
11:3O Thursday morning, when the
box was emptied, and at 11:5S,
when the next collection was made
and they were found. Chief Flynn
made them public soon after he had
conferred here with Attorney Gen.
eral Palmer and Assistant Attorneys
General Gavan and Hoover.
in my opinion this was not an
attack on J. P. Morgan & Co..
Chief Flynn declared. "1 believe
that hose responsible picked out the
financial center in order to create
a demonstration"
Discovery of the circulars, Chief
Flynn said, "makes the plan of the
bombers fairly clear.
''They left the wagon with a horse
attached in Wall street, having set
the timing device for few moment
ahead" he explained. "They didn't
want to take a good chance of mail
ing the circulars. They did not want
to throw them into the street as
they walked away from the scene
of their crime, so they stuck them in
a box. Three minute later their
bomb had exploded.
"There is no doubt at all in my
mind that is about what happen
ed. The fact that the box was empty
when the letter carrier visited it at
11:3O and that the circulars were in
it at 11:58, so close to the time of
the explosion, and so close to the
scene of it, carries conviction.
Hope For Identification
"This is one of the most impor-
tant clues we have, but, of course,
the Identification of the horse and
wagon that carried the internal ma
chine to Wall street is paramount. If
we can identify that we should have
clear sailing.
"No clock work has been found
and it should not be expected that
any would be left. No metal parts
were found in the debris left by the
bombs on June 2, 1919, either. But
we are reasonably sure that time
device was used. A fuse would have
smoked. Some one might have
smelled it. The clock arrangement
would be the safest.
'You might add as an expression
of my personal opinion that the
bomb was not directed against Mr..
Morgan, any member of the Morgan
firm OF any other individual. 1t was
placed in the financial heart of Am
erica as defiance against the Am
erican people and the American
government. That is my opinion.
"The other circulars we have
found have been signed simply AN
archist Fighters" You may see