The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-17

clutnlui one,
eratives of the police department wer,
withdrawn from the financial district
Lists OF all the known dangerous an
archists In the United States are be
ing carefully checked over by the gov
ernment sleuths. The federal end o
the investigation In directed by william
J. Flynn, head of the United states Sc
cret service, who Is on the ground II
person.
LINES OF POLICE PROBE
Police Commissioner Enripht has
divided the police Investigation
along the following llnesi
warning letters, which are now In
tho possession Of the police depart.
nent.
2. Searching for the owner Of
the one horse wagon In which the
bomb was carried TO Wall street.
which the men who drove the
wagon are ssld 10 have fied a few
moments before the explosion.
4. Tracing the source OF the
clock which was used TO set on the
bomb at one minute after II o'clock
s. Huntlna for the source OF the
T.N,T.sor ether explosIve that v,as
used In the konstruetion Of the m
fernai machine,
0. Aseertalnlnu where the bomb
was constructed and how many
percons were Involved In the con-
solraey.
Three city detectives left here earl
today to follow up clue In the bom'
explosion. Their destination was KEEP
secret
The warning letter sent TO Lieut.
Arraud did not arrive through tn
malls IT was dropped through the slo
In the door Of the commissions ofiic
Mt 65 Broadway on Wednesday morn
ing. The letter was written with pc
and ink and opened with the wor
greetings" IT was contained In
small white envelope. But Arnauh di
not take the warning seriously. Afte
| reading It he tore the letter into bits
| dropped II into waste paper baske
and forgot all about II until after n
Wall street district was rocked by tn
most CHASTITY explosion In New York
history. Then he secured the tatteri
pasted them together and gave thef
| to the police.
The letter intlnated that ''certal
persons who had grievances" woul
get revenge by setting off high
power bomb between Q and 2;3O o'ciocl
but the exact date OF the explosion WA
not given. The writer said he had IN
kindest feelings for France and for tn
members OF the French high commits
sion, which accounted for his warninI
He suggested that, the commlssl3,n, =,
offices be closed and that the official
stay away from wall street
Warning Letter.
The letter received by Mr., ketch
ledge was mailed from Toronto, Can
ada. Mr. KetchledRe nj first refuse
to make It public, but later gave u ou
| The contents. which are brief follow
."Greetings--Get out Of wall. stree
| on the gong strike OF o'clock Wednns
day, the 18th Of September, Good lnc
to you. Eb FISCHER
nut much stock In his warming" sal
| Mr. Ketchledge. He wns LAWYER p
profession, but was unable 10 practic
| his profession for many years on nc
count Of recurring attacks of phrnnoii
| He had been committed 10 institWion
| but was released when cured. ne ~
an Intense hatred for Wall street TINS
was the form his mental illucsE TOOL
So far as | know he never suffered IN
| financial revcrses IN Wall street q
| not beleve that Fischer has any int
mate kneSfetlge about this drchdf'
| disastef.~ He was not a member ~ ah
| radical n organization. II H prohHh
that he was suffering from ono OF J.
| periodic mental alterations when y
| sent the warning. and the fact tha
| the explosion occurred about that TIN
| wps p coincidence
! Fischer Ia said 10 have gone 20 Car
ada TO attend a tennis match. "" ha
been IN IN health recently and MS ph'
entR were attempting 20 persuade HI
| 10 enter a sanltnriuW.
Eighteen Dead
Eighteen Of the dead tn the cEploFlo
we're taken to tho uinrEuc. They "
rude four women aud q hoy Medlci
| officials who examined tho hodies ~
ported to District Attorney Edward v
| Swann and Chirf Police lnFpector v
i. IahNv that there was no doubt thi
death was caused by n bomb of w.
| mendous power II ~ believed that q
Internal machine weighed more thH
100 pounds.
TN several Of the bodies were -four
| pieces Of iron and these have hrt
turned over tu the police said thi
1 Medical Examiner Charles Norrl
They appear 10 hnve been made fro
windowsash weights that were saw
into small pieces. There W no don
that N bomb caused the explosion. III
nature of the wounds show That
William ! Burns whose detecln
agency IN employed to guard the Mo
ran huildin~ said he believed that Il
bgmb ,neChnuirtu was similar 10 tn
used In the MrNnmhra dyunmitii
caa~s whesi rhepD alarm clocks We
used IN SGT m the explosive u wa
the nurns agency that ran down Il
Mcnamara dynHmitnrH
"The time clock wns probably Ret
u O'Clock noon. w this instance ~
Burns ~ h pnFHihie that tho ploue
! hoped tn stop their wagon directly
, front of the Morgan hank but We
DELAYED bv heavy traffic ana were cor
pclled 10 haul up IN front ~ the Unit
/ atst,w N,thtreawtiry building across