Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-24
DYNAMITE BUNDLE
DEEPENS MYSTERY
New York Police Seek to Trace
Its Connection With
Explosion
PICKED UP ON BROOKLYN r.

New York. Sept. 24.-After a week
had passed without investigators being
able to solve the mystery Of the Wall
,treet explosion, they were presented
yesterday with another mystery-the
identity of the person who placed a
package Of dynamite in the Reid avenue
elevated station. in Brooklyn.
The package was found by n police =
man doing strike duty on the Fulton
street line, which is operated by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. He soaked
il in bucket Of water, and then car :
ried Il to the fire headquarters, in
Brooklyn. Later. it was taken to q
laboratory. in Manhattan. for analysis.
Accounts differ as to whether a sput-
tering fuse was attached. Some Of
ficials reported that Patrolman San
telli who found it, stamped out fuse.
At the laboratory where the package
was taken. il was said there had been
found two pipe cleaners, impregnated
with nitrate. Those pipe cleaners, 1t
was said. could have served as fuses,
but il had not been established whether
either had been lighted. Authorities
seemed to agree no percussion caps had
been found.
Rickety Buggy Held Liquor
In Brooklyn seizure Of a rickety
buggy by federal authorities caused q
little excitement, because of the almost
prehistoric vehicle that figures in the
Wall street blow-up. The buggy, which
drew up alongside the federal building
was found, however, to contain twelve
LaT11n, nf u.bioky opI pot hpnhG This
liquor was seized and the driver ar
rested.
In Bogota. y. J., two dozen sus'
picious looking tubes were found in a
freight car. An investigation was
started to determine whether they were
bombs or bomb castings.
The grand jury investigating the ex
plosion of last week continued today to
hear VITA aes.
Ray Clark. foreman OF an excavation
crew working in Wall street, told again
to the grand jury the story he related
Wednesday to reporters: That i'm
mediately after the blast he was ap-
preached by strange man. who pro
fessed to be the owner Of the horse at
tached to the death cart.
He described the man as being we'll
dressed. stockily built and speaking
with n slight accent. Clark's story was
corroborated by three members OF the
excavation gang.
Hardware Dealers Testify
Ziegler. Kessler and Dulchin, hard :
ware dealers. testifying before the grand
Jury. described a man they said had
appeared at their store asking for nine
pound window weights. which they were
unable to furnish him. Sawed up
weights Of this nature were found after
the exnlosion. and are believed to have
been part of the bomb.
A curious incident in connection with
the explosion came to light last night,
when a representative of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad appeared at Police head :
quarters with part of window weight
found on the company's ferryboat
Washington. when 1t lay at its slip at
the foot of Cortlandt street. many
blocks from the explosion. To reach
the boat it had to hurdle many sky
scrapers. g,
The tag which the driver Of a fish
wagon told the police he found near
the scene Of the explosion, was idenu-
fed by the health department late yes
terdav az an inspection tag belonging
IN the horse driven by the man him
self. The animal was found to be a-'ve
and we'll.
The only explanation the police could
get from the man was that the tag
7must have dropped off, while. his
wagon was passing block or two from
Wall and Broad streets.