The evening world., 1921-02-18
FATAL WALL Street
BLAST DUE TOPLOT,
GRAND JURY FINDS
Evening Worlds Revelation
Sustained in PreSentment
to Judge Mulqueen.

The Evening Worlds exclusive rev.
elation, published on Nov. II, 1920,
supported by overwhelming circum-
stantial evidence, that the Wall Street
explosion OF Sept. 16, which killed
thirty nine people, was a deliberate
internal machine plot was fully sus-
tained in a report made to Judge
Mulqueen to-day by the Grand Jury
OF September, 1890, which has been
investigating the crime for the past
five months. In a presentment read
in court to-day by w. A. Douglas,
foreman OF the Grand Jury, this state
ment was made:
After carefully sitting the testi-
mony obtained, the Grand Jury has
come to the unanimous conclusion
that the explosion was not due to any
accident; on the contrary the Grand
Jury believes that a dastardly crime
was Intentionally committed and that
the Internal machine was brought to
Wall Street in a horse drawn wagon
and there abandoned"
The Grand Jury recommends that
the city raise the reward for informa-
ton leading TO the detection of the
perpetrators of the crime to $4,000
and allow the offer to run indefinitely.
II this is done the total reward Of
fered will amount to an excess of
S1OO, 900.
Further recommendations were
made, as follows:
That a committee OF experts be
appointed to review and report
upon the laws governing explo-
sive risks in New York City.
That a bureau be formed, inde-
pendent of the Fire and Police
Depa rtnents, to engage in the
control of explosives, protection
of life from them and the detec-
ton and exposure 10 the prose-
cutting authorities of the criminal
handling of or the accumulation
of explosives for unlawful pur-
poses. Such a bureau could con-
slider, as they arose, all germane
topics, such as new explosives,
new safety processes, &c. II
should be bureau which,
through its chemical engineering
forces, would investigate the pro-
posed Introduction of safe eX-
plosives, notably the use of liquid
oxygen.
There should be attached TO this
bureau a secret service agency.
The presentment reviewed in a
general way the voluminouS evidence
1t was found that there was no le-
gitimate delivery Of explosives in the
| Wall Street district on the day Of the
explosion. Many eye witnesses gave
contradictory testimony, but seven
witnesses were found who agreed
| that they spoke to man at the cor
ner of Broad and Wall Streets some
time after the explosion, who said
the horse and wagon destroyed by
the Internal machine belonged to him.
The Grand Jury while convinced
that the Internal machine was aban-
doned in front OF the sub-Treasury
perpetrators of the crime intended
the explosion to occur at noon. An
additional reward, the Grand Jury
concluded, will prevent relaxation of
effort on the part of the men who
have been working on the case.
The Grand Jury found that ex-
plosiVes are stored in magazines
within the city limits and recon-
mended that dynamite and other ex-
plosives shall not be allowed in stor-
age IN any parks or public property
in SUFFICIENT quantities to do damage
to life and property and that the de-
livery of explosives should be sur
rounded with still greater precau
tions than are now employed.
! The evidence appears to be against