The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-19
IS
STILL TELLING
OF BOMB BLAST
Has Supplied Police With
Three Separate Confes-
sions In Different Lam
guages, Giving Inner
History of Conspiracy
To Blow Up Wall
Street

Warsaw, Dec. 19-(By the AS
sCciated Press. Wolfe l.indenfeld,
alias William Linde. arrested here az
the instance of the American secre;
service for alleged connection with
the Wall street bomb explosion of
September 16, 1920, has made three
written statements to the rclice. one
of which. in English. covers his ac-
tivties for the last sixteen years.
Sylvester Cosgrove, the operative
who yesterday brought about Linden
fields arrest, yesterday called the
American department Of justice the
name of blacksmith who, according
to Lindenfald, manufactured the bomb
and engineered the details of the eX
plosion Cosgrove declares that Lin
denfeld's confession corroberates his
previous statements that the plot was
financed in Moscow, and that the mo-
tive was to kill j. p Morgan, strili-
ing terror into America, and showing
tie world that Wall street was not
beyond defiance.
(At the time Of the explosion Mr..
Morgan was in England)
The Polish authorities are particu-
larly interested in Lindenfeld's Rus
sion connections in 1906. They claim
that he was then active in the Polish
social democratic party opposing Rus
sian rule, but that he turned traitor
to the Poles, joining the Russian Sc
cret service and working against the
Polish revolutionaries. These activ-
tiles on his part became 50 wide
tI,,4
posed, and he fled to America.
Lindenfeld's statement regarding
his movements since March OF this
year, now in the hands of the Polish
political police. is said to show that
he has been working against the
Poles again. this time in cooperation
with the Russian communists.
On behalf of Lindenfeld his friends
say he lived humbly with his father
while in this city, and they discount
the Polish accusation that he was in
volved in espionage plots. They as
sert that he never displayed much
when not with his father here. he was
usually with relatives in Lodz
Wall Street Alarmed
New York, Dec. 19.-Will streets
principal financial institutions were
being guarded today by reinforced de
tails of police and private detectives
in anticipation Of another bomb eX-
plosion, warning of which was sent 10
a Broker in the district advising him
to leave town or the vicinity of the
stock exchange. Althoufh the police
were inclined to treat the anonymous
prediction with skepticism, extra pre-
cautions were taken in view of the
disclosures expected today in the
statement of Wolfe Lindenfeld, arrest
cd in Warsaw in connection with the
Wall street catastrophe of September.
1920.
Lindenfeld's revelations of that plot
and its perpetrators were expected to
be forwarded today to VIM. j. Burns,
director OF the bureau of investiga
ton of the Department of Justice
from the State Department in Wash
ington. where the lengthy dispatch
from Warsaw was being decided.
The warning letter said the stock
exchange and everything in radius
OF five miles would he blown up by
"A bomb on December 10, but the au-
thorities were inclined to treat it as
the work of a mentally deranged per-