Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-21
BOMR SUSPECT
TELLS POLICE
ABOUT OTHERS
Wolfe Lindenfeld May Be
Sent Back to United
States Soon.
EMPLOYED AS BURNS AID

WARSAW, Poland. Dec. 21.-Wolte
Lindenfeld, held here in connection with
the Wall street bomb murders, has named
six accompIices for whom detectives are
searching, Dr. Stanislaw OulkOwski, chier
commissary of the Polish political po-
lice, declared today.
s Dr. Oulkowski gave out complete rec
ord of Iindenfelds activities, both be
fore and after the dynamiting, taken from
the archives of the secret police.
This threw the first light of publicity
on Iindenfeld's inside history"
While police were cross questioning
IindapfaId endeavoring to elicit further
information from him DR.. Oulkowski
said the following had been ascertained
SUSPECT KNEW
ABOUT PLOT.
1. Lindenfeld undoubtedly was in
voIved in the bombing, because he
knew infinitely in advance how the
preparations were made, how the
bomb was manufactured and how it
was to be set of.
= He did not actually participate
in the bombing but he knows who
did. 1.-THE names Of the six accom-
pIices were not divulged by DR.. Oul-
koswki for fear that they would take
the alarm and escape.)
j. Lindenfeld is "double-cfosser
and has told a number Of lies which
he does not hesitate to amend when
caught. He says he once was a mem
Der of the New York Press Club. He
processes TO have obtained $4,000 from
the Burns detective agency by hiring
himself to it as an agent TO help run
down the Wall street dynamiters.
The Polish authorities are anxious to
deport Lindenfeld to the United States
at the earliest moment.
WAS BORN IN
WARSAW
Lindenfeld, DR.. Oulkowski said, was
born in Warsaw in 1884. He is married.
his wife being in New York. and has
two children. He participated in Il revO-
lutiOnary movement in Poland in 1906.
While a member of the German section
of the Socialist party and employed as
a store clerk, that party decided to pun
ish him for strike-breaking.
ThereupOn Lindenfeld sought police
protection. The police employed him as
an agent prOvacateUr"- spy among
the radicals. 1t was his duty to try and
incite the radicals to attempt some I'M
lawful deed and then inform on them.
Eventually Lindenfeld went TO America.
He changed his name to Linde and
worked as a tailor's cutter. Later. he
was employed as a detective by the Burns
agency.
STARTS PAPER TO
FIGHT CAPITALISTS.
He also started a political newspaper
called the Tribuna, devoted to labor ques-
tiOns and to war upon the capitalists.
He became i member of the New York
Press Club in Spruce street, and also of
the International Labor Party. He pre-
tends to have had advance knowledge Of
the plot TO set off a bomb in Wall street,
knew the names of those involved and
where and how the Internal machine was
manufactured. After it was set of at
Broad and Wall streets in September
1920. killing thirty persons. Lin
denfeld went to William J. Burns, he
says, and offered to go to work for him
again, for the purpose Of locating the
dynamiters. He declares he received
$1,000 from Burns and shortly there
after disappeared.
He returned to Poland, where he got
into close connection with the Commun-
lists and attended communistic meetings
IN Brussels. Zurich, Berlin and Moscow
MAKES HASTY
DEPARTURE
About this time Burns sent Detective
Sylvester Cosgrove to Europe to locate
him. Lindenfeld discovered he was being
Swallowed by COsgroye. He Immediately
left his hotel without paying his bill.
I'VE have not yet been able TO prove he
actually participated in the Wall Street
bombing" said the commissary, al
though he has confessed lie had complete
knowledge of all details beforehand. We
cannot give the names Of the six persons
he implicated, because the warning would
be untimely. He amends his statements
daily and frankly admits he has been
lying"
The direct examination Of Lindenfeld
is being continued His questioning so
far IS referred TO by police as 4 prelimi-
nary investigation.-Copy 1921, by
United Press.