Evening star., 1921-10-20
THREATENING NOTE
BELIEVED CLUE TO
HERR|CK BOMBING
Handwriting on Letter Simi-
lar to That on Package
Sent Ambassador.
ALL FRANCE REGRETS
HORROR OF OUTRAGE
Police Think Communists Laid
Plot-0ther Embassies
Warned.
By the Associated Press.

warned.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, October z0.-Retalia-
tory measures i'm the event of
the execution of the two Italians,
SaccO and Vanzetti, convicted of
murder in Massachusetts,, are
threatened against the American
consulates i'm Paris, Bordeaux,
Lyons and MarseiIles, i'm letters
received at those consuIates to-
day signed by communist Or
ganizatiOns.
PARIS, October 20:-French experts
t.amining several hundred letters sent
recently TO Myron T. Herrick, the Ameri-
c1n ambassador, today discovered one
which they believe may furnish strong
clue in tracing the maker of the bomb
which eXpioded in Mr.. Herrick's home
here yesterday evening.
The letter was addressed to the am
bassador personally and was received by
him at the American embassy, October
IA. 1t is said to have contained d
threat to kill him ''by scientific means
which the writer declared he had in
his possession.
These experts today believed they
handwriting of the letter and that Of
the address on the box which contained
| the bomb.
| The letter was written in French and
| in small uneven letters, indicating that
the author was an uneducated French
man. At the top of the sheet were
| the words, '.Sacco and Eanzett,'' writ
ten in large letters. (These names evil
| IDENTIFY refer to Niccolo Sacco and Bar
! tolomeo. Vanzetti, two Italians who
were convicted of first degree murder By
| a Massachusetts court last summer
The letter said: LAS the representa-
| tive of your country you are party
/ to the persecution of Sacco and Van
zetti, and you are, therefore, Jointly
! responsible for their execution. /
| have in rly power scientific means of
sending you to the same destiny to-
gether with your whole household
The letter was signed: "A Scientific
Man Who Will Work Alone"
Minister of War Barthou, accom-
panied by number of French gen
erals. called upon Mr. Herrick this
morning and congratulated him in the
name of the French army for his mar
row escape. Virtually all of the dip
lomatic corps in Paris paid official
calls at the embassy during the fore
noon.
| The American amba ssador has de-
! cided to rest several days at his place
! in the country. Although not i'll. he
| thought it best TO abstain from officia
| duties for day or two TO remove the
| possibility of reaction from his nerN-
/ Gus shock.
Mr.. Herrick. at the request of his
! staff, has decided not to use his open
automobile for a week or ten days.
He has promised to ride only in
! closed ear.
Police authorities investigating the
explosion report that apparently a Brit
| ish bomb widely used during the war
was conceled in the package sent 10 the
ambassador. 1t will be recalled that Mr.
Herrick's valet recognized the sound
given out by the package when 1t was
| opened as being that of bomb, and
that he was formerly a soldier in the
/ British forces in France.
Fragments of the wrapper of the
deadly package are being examined
sible to trace its origin. Ii was
badly shattered by the explosion. and
! there would appear to be little hope
of detecting hte criminal
Detectives at Work.
The entire detective force of Paris
| and all available policemen, under
| The personal direction Oh the prefect
| of police. worked throughou the
night in efforts TO trace the makers OF
| the bomb. No arrests had been an
nounced by the police up to noon to-
| day but il was said number OF
persons were under surveillance and
! that TWO clues formed the basis for
| further investigation.
| Fragments of metal of which the
| bomb was made and an address on
| the cover of the box containing IL are
| the only tangible evidence on which
| the detectives can work. Bomb ex-
perts in the police department are
| trying to identify the small fragments
| in efforts to trace the source of the
purchase of the Internal machine.
| Final decision regarding the COM
| munist manifestation announced Tor
! tomorrow evening remains to be TAX
! en- Police officials said today that.
| whatever the decision. there would
! he sufficient forces on hand to pre-
vent crowds from approaching the
I! American embassy or indulging in
| violence anywhere.
The attention of the police has
been directed toward a certain num-
ber of American citizens who, al
though banished from France. are
| known still to be in the country. The
first searches, however. it was said
| today, probably will be made in anar-
chist and communist circles, as the
crime is regarded by the police as
| result of communist campaign
against the conviction for murder of
| Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
court last summer. Some posters in
this campaign have been traced TO
anarchistic origin, 1t was said.
i Package Marked "Perfume."
| The bomb was in a small oblong
package wrapped in plain white pa
per tied with strong cord and
marked perfume" and lay on a ta-
| BILE in the American embassy all yes
| terday morning. 1t was addressed
personally to the American ambassa-
| dor, Myron T. Herrick. and had been
delivered by registered post.
Thinking it was a gift, the ambasSa-
doris secretary, Lawrence Norton.
| carried it to the ambassadors resi-
dence, the former home of Prince
Jacques de Broglie. at 16 Avenue de
Messine Early in the evening the
| ambassadors valet, Blanchard, saw
| the package on a desk, and. following
custom, started to open it. The re-
moval of the paper revealed small
pasteboard box, such as might be
used for holding soap. Almost i'm
mediately a spring was released and
as Blanchard lifted the lid he heard
the days when he was a bomber in the
British army. He hurled the box
through the open bathroom door and
ran from the room. The bomb ex-
ploded in the doorway. two fragments
hitting the valet in the back. He was
not seriously injured.
The ambassador, his daughter-in-
Law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick, and her
Iseven-year-old son were just at this
| time ascending the stairway. pre-
paratory to entering Mr. Herrick's
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