The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-17

MT. Ketchledge at first refused to make it public! but later gave 1t out. The contents. which are brief, follow;
 Greetings:
 Get out of Wall Street on the gong strike of o'clock Wednesday, the 18th of September. Good luck 10 you, Ed Fischer"
 "1 knew Fischer well. but I did not put much stock in his warning, said MT. Ketch1edge. He was lawyer by profession, but was unable to practice his profession for many years on ac- count of recurring attacks of paranoia. He had been committed to lnstltu- tions but was released as cured.
 "He had an intense hatred of Wall Street. That was the form his mental illness took. So far as l know he never suffered any financial reVerses in Wall Street. l don't believe that Fischer has any intimate knowledge about this dreadful disaster. He was not a member of any radical organi- zation. It is probable that he was suffering from one of his periodic mental alterations when he sent the warning and the fact that the explo- sion occurred about that time was coincidence"
 Fischer is said to have gone to Canada to attend a tennis match. He has been in i'll health recently and his parents were attempting to persuade
 
 Eighteen of the. dead in the explo- sion were taken to the morgue. They included four women and boy. Medical officials who examined the bodies reported to District Attorney Edward Swan and Chief Police In spector William J. Lahey that there was no doubt that death was caused by a bomb of tremendous power. It is believed that the ifernal machine weighed more than 100 pounds.
 .r-1 found pieces of iron and these have been turned over toe the police," said Chief Medical Examiner Charles Nor riS They appear to have been made sawed into small pieces. There is no doubt that bomb caused the explo- sion. The nature of the wounds shows that"
 William J. Burns, whose detective agency is employed to guard the Nor gan building, said he believed that the bomb mechanism was similar to that used in the McNamara. dynamit- ing cases when cheap alarm clocks were used to set off the explosive. It was the Burns agency that ran down the McNanlara dynamiters.
 The time clock was probably set for 12 o'clock noon in this instance '' said Burns. "It is possible that the plotters hoped to stop their wagon directly in front of the Morgan bank. but were delayed by heavy traffic and were compelled to pull up in front of tho United States Sub-Treasury build ing across the street. There were great crowds in the street at the time as it was in the midst of the lunch hour. l believe that the conspirators purposely chose this time, Knowing that 1t would be easier for them to escape in the crowded street. They the blast went off So far as we can learn the wagon had halted only a few minutes before the explosion immediately after the blast the air was filled with the fumes of picric acid.'
 The authorities have discarded the theory that a robber band hoped to wreck the Morgan bank and the united States Sub-Treasury and loot the vaults under cover of the general panic and excitement. It is admit ted however that such a plot, if sue cessfully carried out would have yielded a rich harvest. There was soO,o0o.0o0 in gold bullion stored in say office anad $100O,00O more in the United States Sub-Treasury.
 The amount of gold bullion and coin in the Morgan Bank and the not definitely known, but is very large.
 With dawn today the armp of in- vest1gators was reinforced. Renew GU ellOTIS were maQe to gain 1nfOr- nation as to the identity of the ter rorists through the horse and wagon which had carried the bomb The carcass of the dead horse was r1iynure- ly examined. It was found that the animal was newly shod and that it had recently been clipped.
 Detectives have been asSi signed to canvass all blacksmiths shops m New York to check up the owners of horses shod within the past few days Detectives sir iIoy ir, VeStigation on Long Island and at various places in New Jersey, where l anarchists were formerly known to gather.
 The Police department gave out the following description of the yomo v-- hicle:
 "A one-horse affair of the rack va | riety. The bed was enclosed in a net. work of slender poles and rails. Ii was painted yellow. Regular explosives wagons arc | painted red, are entirely covered carry a red flag and are emblazonet | with big warning placards. All of the injured who are able te talk are being examined in hospital. ] and their homes by Federal and Nun. iGipal % detectives; They have beer value but the most of them said they , had noticed nothing until they were knocked down by the earthquake-ikt l exn1osion.
 | InCSe WHO were III the lmmed1at tf vicinity of Broad and Wall Street. | said that the chiming of the clock ! in Trinity tower had. barely ceased | when a muffled roar like blast O. | artillery broke forth. Buildings rock cd and the air imemdiately da~kenee | by smoke and flying wreckage 4 | sheet of flame 1eaped through tht l window of the Morgan bank and tn, l Sub-Trea sury. This flame had tn, l appearance of coming from the banI | and it was this phenomenon that let