The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-18
Important Among Clues is Iden-
tity of Owner of Horse Found
Dead After Explosion.
THREATS IN CIRCULARS
Perpetrators Believed to Have
Picked Financial Center
for Demonstration.
tRx Associated Press }

Hackensack, N. j., Sept. 17.-The
identity of the blacksmith who shod
the horse found dead near the scene
of yesterdays explosion in New York
Is known to the department of JUS
tice, William NJ. Mead, chief clerk for
j. r. Morgan e. Company, stated to-
night. He said the blacksmith claims
to know the man who owned the ami
NAL.
1--WE feel the plot was premeditated,"
declared Mead, land that a deliberate
attempt was made to destroy the build
ing of ]. p. Morgan & Company and
to kill and injure as many people as
possible"
New York, Sept. I7.-The financial
! district made rapid recoveries from
the disruption created by yesterdays
tragedy. Business of the various ex-
changes, banks and similar institu-
tions today proceeded without further
interruption. The stock exchange had
the most active session in many weeks,
with gains of two to ten points.
New York, Sept. 17.-Chief Flynn of
the department of justice tonight
made public copies of five circulars
signed american anarchists fighters"
which he said were found in a letter
box at the corner of Cedar street and
RBroadway shortly before noon today,
Srhe circular to which he attached most
importance read: Remember we will
not tolerate any longer. Free all politi-
cal prisoners or it will be sure death
for all OF YOU"
The circulars, 7x11 inches were
printed on cheap paper. Flynn declared
they were not in the letter box when
the carrier made his rounds at IL: 80
o'clock this morning but were found
7 there on the next trip at 11;5S.
"In my opinion" Flynn declared,
s"this is not an attack on ]. p. Morgan
& Company. I believe those response
BILE picked out the financial center in
order to create a demonstration"
A striking coincidence of postcard
warnings kiving notice of the disaster
to men in the Financial district by
I Edward Fischer, formerly an empioye
of the French high commission, receiv-
ed attention of the police and federal
authorities today.
Little credence was placed in the
theiry he had any direct knowledge
of the explosion Flynn suggested he
was simply a paranoic who happened
I to "hit it off right"
The regular September grand jury
began Investigations today 20 deter
mine, first, whether a crime was COM
mitted' second, whether the disaster
was due to criminal negligence. The
Jury visited the scene of the disaster,
prepared to summon many witnesses
seven other investigations are going
on and rewards are offered. The death
list tonight stood at 50.
New York, Sept. 17.-Police this af-
ternoon obtained another warning pos
tai card signed ed" and addressed to
Sheppard Homans, of Prosser and Ho-
mans, in the Equitable building
postmarked Toronto. 1t read: Dear
Shep-Keep away from Wall street
this, Wednesday. afternoon. There
never was a road that didn't have a
turn. Gobd luck"
Police also made public letter from
Edward Il. Fischer, under detention in
Hamilton, Ontario, as writer of
warning to the French high commits
sion. for which he formerly worked.
Incoherency was evidenced in the ver-
batim copy furnished newspaper men.
This was also dated the 18th. Reports
from Hamilton today said Fischer told
the examining magistrate he had a
pain in the head similar TO the one he
had warning of the Wall street tragedy
"came out of the air. and that he be-
neyed something terrible is happen
ing somewhere now" Fischer is for
mer New Yorker.
Fisher was adjudged a fit subject
for the asylum by a lunacy commission
here today and will be taken there this
tafternoon.
Officers who took the prisoner in
charge say he talked queerly. He
claimed that he had once acted as
sparring partner to Jack Dempsey
the heavyweight boxing champion.
Robert Pope, Of New York, Ffschers'
brother in law, speaking to newspaper
men this afternoon said that t1scher
told him three weeks ago that he had
a premonition that Wall street woulo
be blown Up. but he paid no attention
to him
Thirty-six persons, two of them uni
dentffied. lost their lives in the eN-
plosion, according to a revised casualty
list issued at noon today. The number
OF injured is said to approximate 200,
with exact figures unobtainable be-
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