Evening journal., 1920-09-17
BURNS SAYS ANARCHISTS HAVE
BEGUN NEW REIGN OF TERROR

NEW YORK, Sept II Omitted Press The authorities
dividing their efforts today between seeking those responsible for
yesterdays bomb explosion and guarding against repetition
Federal municipal and private detectives had fixed upon the
theory the explosion the death list of which, officially 6
yesterday through succbng of of the
200 injured during the night the work of anarchists and that
only beginning of carefully prepared reign of terror
William Burns head Of detective agency bearing his
name, said today that the explosion resumption
scale of the "naH bomb plot" of last
he organization which carried out the distribution Of
through mails year last May responsible for
terday's explosion" Burns said.
nead of repeating their former tactics they just made big
ger bombs Yesterdays explosion undoubtedly caused by 800
pounds of TINT (trnotolus The object of the per-
petrato plainly utterly the Offices of p Morgan and
the Sub Treasury The only the bombs carried
those buildings is that they large could not have
been done without detection"
William j. Flynn chief of the Federal Secret Service who
directed the questioning of of witnesses until %
ed with about 80 of his operatives today Many of these, who
included women during the night from Washmgtou
cities learned that these quiet wedressed young
included the best agents of the Department of JUS
ce No had been made shortly before but ID
learned that plans being made by the Department of JUS
tic police and the Burns for general roundup Of no~
reds" This said would extend other cities and many
arrests looked for before nghfall
One upon which the police working furnished
by steel shoes from the horse which believed have drawn
the containing the bomb The shoes was sad bore the
mark of the shop in which the horse last hod
Another furnished the authorities by George F.
Ketchedge empoye of B. F. Schwartz and Company Broad
way said he received postcard days from Edward
p Fischer formerly employed by the French High Commission
The card mailed in Toronto, Ont, September IL, read
II Greetings; Get of Wall Street the gong
strikes Wednesday, the fifteenth Good luck (Sgnedl
Ed"
Fischer said have written warning Eeutentane
Anaud Of the commission. II contained in plain white
veope dropped the mail receptacle of the commissions
Ketchedges place Of business half mile from the of
explosion Fischer caught Hamilton Ontario, this
morning.
broker also received letter of warning frona
the These letters worded about the same, Begin
ming with greetings, and urging the recipients to get OF
Wall Street." and closing with the words "good luck"
Of the police They
employ
Tuesday.
miionaireS
who o killed
country working
including William Department Justice w L
and bomb the York police Department.
which blown 70
by the effort to locate the saSs
eonta-
ing explosives window weights
eontaner itself are in possession Of '
police metal found in the body ol py
who killed investigators today r the nsa
described cloud
noticed the peculiar od OF IN
Immediately victims burned a~d
den on the the Of Broad and Wall streets 90
which kept in that locality
NJ J. Burns had doubt that bombs ~
II Of Fifteen