Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-17
WALL STREET BOMB
SET FOR ]. P. MORGAN
Driver OF Dynamite Wagon, Ar
rested in Warsaw, Con-
fesses His Part Of Plot.


Warsaw, Dec. 17.--A man by the
name OF Wolfe Lindenfeld. alias VIII
liam Linde has been arrested by the
Polish police here az n suspect In
connection with the Wall street ex-
plosion In New York on September
i6. 1920. The Warsaw police said
they made the arrest at the request
Of the American Department of Jus
tice. They claimed to have I'm their
possession the mans full confession
OF being connected with the outrage.
Llndcnfeld Is described as n cousin
OF Rosa Luxenburg, the German radl-
cal Socialist leader, who was shot to
death In Berlin early in 1919, after
having been beaten by n mob. Ills
confession, the police state. gives the
names Of the ringleaders and the New
York Citw address whore the bomb
was manufactured, and says also that
the bomb was intended for j. +.
Morgan, but exploded prematurely
| Sylvester Cosgrove, an American
Department OF Justice. Agent at
whose request, in behalf of the de
partment, the arrest of the suspect
was brought about. declared that Lin
denfcld has agreed to turn States evil
dence and Is willing to return to Amer
lea. where he has wife and tw
children In New York.
The suspects written confession, ac.
cordlng to the agent, says that s30..
900 was promised for the job. to bc
divided among the four or five per
sons. and that the money was rtceiv.
cd by New York Communists from
the Moscow Third Internationale:
Lndenfeid left New York early las
spring. The Polish police say ne wa.
exposed in Warsaw in 1906 us a Rus
sian secret agent. fleeing t. Americ,
shortly afterwards.
| According to Cosgrove and Paul Al
tendorf, who trailed Lindenfeld, IN
suspect in his confession names hv
principals. now In Europe. who share
the money for the job. One Of tn
principals, the confession shows, was
woman, who from window opposit
Mr. Morgan's office observed the nnan
GERS movements for days. and fror
her reports the bomb was timed to ex
plode about the usual time Mr.. Norge
{ ne out for luncheon.
The confession, as described by ~
American agents, terms the prema
ture explosion "a mechanical mis-
take" for which the bomb makers ar
blamed. Lindenfeld estimating tina
the bomb exploded from ten to fiftee
: minutes before the intended time. TIL
plotters also accuse the driver of III
wagon which brought the bomb I
, Wall street of having erred in nc
leaving the wagon near the Morga
Office
Cosgrove and Altendorf estimat
that lindenfelds confession cover
more than 10000 words. and assei
:. that the details fit I'm with the mass
other information In their possession
Further portions OF the confessio
. referred to- by Cosgrove show tn,
> Lindenfeld knew OF the plans for MOI
:, than a week prior to the explosio
/, but denies any actual part in Il
!, bombing preparations. He gives Ne
York addresses OF various indiyidua
. involved in the plot, most of who
4 have since left the country, and al
gives a New York address where Il
Communists are alleged TO have pa
4 over the cash TO the plotters.
Cosgrove AYERS that his informati,
shows Lindenfeld had close come
# tions with Moscow, from where he r
d ceived funds regularly. BY the .Polii
s. secret service it is asserted that d
= suspect attended at least one co
# ference at Moscow of the Third Int
rationale; that he was born in Wa
saw, has many relatives here al
carries a Polish passport. For mo
of the time since March he has be,
living in Warsaw, posing as an Amel
can.