The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-21
MYSTERY OF BOMB
. HORROR BECOMES
MORE BATTLING
All Clues Lead to Result.
less Ending; Guarding
Custom House With
Troops
DEATH WAGON AGAIN
POLICE SEEM TO FOLLOW END.
LESS CIRCLE IN ATTEMPT N
SOLVE THE RED" OUT.
RAGE.
DEATH WAGON AGAIN

kAGE.
New York, Sept. 21.-The New York
custom house today was under the
| heaviest guard in its history because
OF the warning received yesterday that
| the Wall Street explosion Of last Wed.
nesday would be followed by an at.
tempt to blow up the great govern,
ment structure.
| Although both federal and local au-.
thorities were inclined TO regard as a
! hoax the post card received by Col
lector Edwards setting two O'Clock as
the hour for the second explosion
they took no chances.
Guards Heavily Armed.
Office workers making their way
down the canyon of lower Broadway
this morning found scores of coast
guards carrying rifles and side arms
entering the custom house at the
foot of Bowling Green.
In addition, scores of United States
customs guards had been mobilized.
They were stationed inside the bui,d-
ing and at the doors Every one enter
ing the structure was closely ques-
toned. 1t was said that more coast
guards were being herd at the barge
office in Battery Park These, 1t was
said, would be stationed around the
custom house later in the day.
While no orders had been received
at Governors Island this morning to
send any soldiers to Manhattan for
guard duty several companies of Unit
ed States regulars were available
there in case Of emergency.
Last Thursday the first detachment
reached Wall Street within 40 min
utes.
Reserves Ready for Call.
Police reserves and agents Of the
Department Of Justice also stood ready
TO answer any call but custom house
officials expressed themselves prepar-
ed for any emergency. -
There was only one policeman OF,
duty in front OF the government build
ing. He was assigned to see that no
vehicles were parked in front Of 1t.
One effect OF the warning was to
keep many clerks in lower Manhattan
from their daily tasks Frequent tele-
phone calls reporting illness" were
received. Workers who reported for
the day appeared torn between two
inclinations-th first to treat the
whole matter as joke and the sec
ond to laugh nervousy when any
mention of the warnings was made.
No Clews Found.
Federal and police authorities today
We're admittedly as far from a solu-
tion of the mystery surrounding the
explosion that spread death and de-
struction in Wall Street last Thurs.
day !.
Clues, at first apparently promising.
have not developed and today virtually
the only trail being followed was
that supplied by Samuel B. Yelling
ton, president OF the West Indies Trad
Ing Company, who told newspaper men
he remembered seeing three suspic-
lous-looking men Fastening from in
front OF the United States assay OF.
flse few moments before the detona-
ton knocked him unconscious Well
lngton was asked TO repeat his story
today to the police and 10 Chief
William j. Flynn of the Department
of Justice agents investigating the
explosion, as well as to the Septem.
Der grand jury.
Death Wagon Again.
Investigators had not entirely giv-
en- up pursuit OF the story of Joseph
Meads of the Society for the Preven-
ton OF Cruelty to Animals. that he had
seen the death wagon" standing for
more than an hour before the explo-
sion In front OF the assay office.
The importance they attach to his
story lies In the hope that through
It they may be able to identify the
driver of the wagon and this may
lead TO the discovery OF the person
or persons responsible for the plot.
Fischer In Observation Ward.
Hope OF developments from ques-
tionlng Edwin = Fischer, lawyer and
former employe OF the French high
commission and Alexander Brailovsky.
Russian journalist went glimmsring
with the commitment OF the former for
| psychopathic observation In Bellevue
hospital. and the unconditional release
of the latter after authorities had sat.
isfied themselves that he had nothing
to do with the tragedy.
The incohcrent and eccentric story
OF Iischer. who sent post card warm
ings which he said he received from
the arr to friends here, convinced the
government agents Of his innocence.
Brailovsl,y who was detained on the
technical charge OF being an undesir-
abe alien was released because then
was no evidence to warrant prooeou.