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WALL ST. BOMB
0thor Arrests May Be Made
Near Scranton.
IDENTIFICATION IS POSITIVE
New York Business Man Says He
Saw Ligi Talking With Driver OF
Death Wagon Before Explosion.

Scranton. April -:'.-Til" ligi, aI
rested here on suspicion of C"'nplicity
ia lie Wall street explosion, WIS posi-
lively identified hy Il New York 'tisi
Hess man as the l'erSCn he saw S'i;:t
Ing beside The. hpr>.., and driver Ct III.
death wagon 1T thr scene of the {
lesion just five minutes before ii e,
Cured.
The driver was CunEvr:,.IG Mi.!i Liz
when seen by The h..~inesS :aa!, IL
,.artnent OF Justice officials said il
."ld them ii WAS picked tr0n Il IL!
g.. six prisoners as The man ne ha
:>.an. Two otter iien, brought froi.
-;,W York in an effort 10 identify m
prisoner. said he MAS not the .ln:ll
hey had seen driving the wagon I'll,
With explosives
These were Raymond Clark, To-.
nan of an eN, awaiting crew which VIZ
working oil = h !i!,;:ng ne:lr the seen
f the explosion when it occurred, ain
.nomaS Smith. who is said to haN
'ern Il former lieutenant of the Me-,
.urk fire department and who Il pre-
hi is connected with the fire mar
>hHl'~ office The man who recognize
;.:@i : said to have been J. Naliy, il
business in Wall &rrlpt and living q;
j0i West 1IGth street. New York Ii.
he federal officials
The three witnesses came tn this
.'fy from New York. accompanied by
Charles J. Scully. chief of the @imi
nal investigation bureau of NsFict
department and a special repre8Ifita'
tive of Chief Flynn. a
The business man. officials SAID. ad,
mitted that he had seen photographs
If Ligi in New York newspapers, hut
declared his identification was posi-
tive. Ligi. when identified, was lined
up with five other prisoners and
brought into the room the Business
man was in The latter Scannhd AL
their faces c-osely. then stopped with,
in two feet of Ligi, looked at hir]
closely, and exclaimed. THAT i the
man." Liei stood calmly. with no dis
play of emotion.
The identification was made latter
both the othe" men had said Lig was
not the man who drove the death
wagon Department of justice agents
expressed satisfaction WiFb~ Afea&ycl
npmpnts. They said other persons
would he brought from New York al
once in an effort to confirm Ligi's
SuppOSed connection with the diSaS
t. MT
persons interviewed by investigators
following the blast mentioned seeing
someone talking to the driver Of the
wagon shortly before the explosion
Some of these. it is considered prob
able Will ne brought here.
Indications were that other arrest,
would be made in coal mining districts
where Ligi formerly worked in an eff
fort to determine what connection, il
any. I;gi had with the explosion.
Present efforts are ccntered upon de
termining where he was nj the time il
happened I.igi insists he was il
Scranton, but officials said they did
not believe hS story.
The police appeared confident tina
further examination of Ligi woUl'
lead to additional arrests in conn2c
ton with the Wall street explosion
Ligi was Icld in so 600 hail nj Il hear
ing before federal commissioner or
charges of cvadin@ the Graft. His
trial was SET for May . in federal
court at Harrisburg. In asking that
high bail be fixed. District Attorney
NcCourt said he believed that Lig
either was directly connected with the
Wall street explosion or knows who
was responsible fer it.