The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-17
MORE ARRESTS
ARE FORECAST
IN BOMB CASE
Burns Agency Pre-
diets NelD Captures
in 4S Hours.

New York. Dec 17.-(Copyright,
1921 by the United Press )-Addi-
tional arrests in the Wall street
bomb explosion case are expected
to be made within the next 4S
hours by Burns detectives and
agents of the justice department, as
a result of the confession obtained
from Wolfe Lindenfeld in Warsaw
by a Burns detective operating for
the United States government.
THE Burns detective agency has
been working steadily on the case
since the day of the explosion"
Sherman Burns, secretary-treasur-
er of the agency, told the United
Press today
Had Much Evidence.
I'VE accumulated a mass of evil
dence. Much of it concerns w liz
Lindenfeld. We have been in touch
with LindenfeId, or Linde, as he
was known in New York. for long
time. When William J. Burns was
appointed director of the bureau of
investigation of the department of
justice, we turned over to the gov
agency had collected on the case,
including what we had on Linden
field. The department Immediately
took up the trail. Cosgrove, who
arrested Lindenfeld in Warsaw,
worked on the case for US and was
transferred to the government when
the department of justice secured
the evidence We had.
In June, prior to the Wall street
explosion, we had a direct tip that
an effort was going to be made to
explode a bomb in the financial dis
trict. l. went personally to the
leading bankers in Wall street and
told them of the warning we had
received"
Related to Rosa Luxemburg.
Wolfe Lindenfeld, or William
Linde, as he was known in New
York. was associated with the so
called red" groups for several
years. He is supposed to be of Po-
lish extraction and lived in Poland
before coming to the United States.
1t has been established that Lin
denfelt was related to Rosa Lux
emburg, the well known German
dndTCnlSI, WIZ Was hlAlSo III DSi-
lin in 1919.
In New York Lindenfeld was
presumably associated with Slav-
ic news agency and is alleged to
have used this connection as a
cover for his real activities in con-
nection with anarChistic pTopagan-
da work He lived in New York
and in cities in the east for over
three years to the definite knowl-
edge of the Burns agency
"Lindenfeld asserted that he di-
rectly represented the Third In
ternationale in the United States, .
it was said today by detective as
signed to the case.
Posed as Detective.
"At one time it was known that
in an effort to ascertain what the
government and certain private
agencies were doing to combat an
archists' activity in this country he
planted himself as an employe of
a nationally known detective agen-
cy. This agency ascertained his
purpose almost at once and for a
long period used Lindenfeld as a
decoy on shis own red associates.
1t was through this connection that
some very valuable information
was secured"
Most of the men named by Lin
denfeld in his statement to the de-
partment of, justice operatives in
Warsaw as being associated with
the Wall street bomb explosion
plot are now in Europe, it is said.
Only two are believed TO be still
in the United States
New York's bomb squad" which
has been working on the case for
a year, today discredited the al
legged confession of Lindenfeld.
HnaA liz