New Britain herald., 1921-12-17
Burns Declares That Third Internationale Was The Moving Spirit Behind Plot Of A Year Ago
Disclosures by Man Ar rested in Poland Will Re- suit in Early Arrests, Is Belief.

Washington, Dec 17, = (By Asso- ciated Press)-The arrest in Warsaw of Wolfe Lindenfeld, which is detail- cd in another column of this issue, will clear up the entire mystery of the Wall street explosion of Septem- Der 16, 1920, it was stated positively today by William J. Burns, head of the department of justices bureau of investigation.
 Lindenfeld whose arrest was re- ported to the department by the As sociated Press was described by MT. Burns as the key to the solution of the mystery and the only man that we know in the world that knows all about it.
 BIames Internationale
 MT. Burns declared that Lindenfeld himself was not implicated in the ex- plosion, one of the worst tragedies in the history of New York, but was so close to the radical elements who were it's perpetrators that he knew all about it. The third internationale, Mir. Burns said, was the moving spirit behind the plot.
 AfrestS Are iINpecteu
 Radicals in Europe as well as In the United States, Mir Burns asserted, were under surveillance by the de- partment for suspected connection with the explosion and If the infor- nation to be obtained from Linden field proves to be as expected, arrests are in immediate prospect
 Shadowed SIeuth
 Lindenfeld, according to MT. Burns went abroad originally on behalf of the justice department to obtain in- formation which would lead to the arrest of those responsible for the ex- plosion. When no reports were re- | ceived from him, Mir. Burns said | Sylvester Cosgrove, one of the de- ] partment's agents was sent over to find out why Lindenfeld was not send ing the information promised and the arrest followed.
 Who Lindenfeld Is Lindenfed, Mir. Burns explained, was the representative in New York before his departure for abroad of radical Polish papers and also was one of the representatives in America of Lenine and the third internationale. He was recommended to the Burns detective agency IS the man who knew most about the Wall street explosion and, Mir. Burns declared adding that careful check has borne this out.
 "Lindenfeld," said Mir. Burns, ''is the only man that we knew in the world that knows all about it."
 Was Offered S5O,OOO For this reason, Mir Burns continu- ed, Lindenfeld was sent abroad to get the necessary information to enable the arrest of the participants in the bomb plot and was to have received the S5O,000 reward for these dis closures. He was described by Mir. Burns as a highly educated and in- tellectual man of pronounced radical tendencies. although he did not him self advocate violent measures. He is about 36 years old and has a wife and two children now in New York and is a half brother of Rosa Luxemburg. He went by the name of William Linde in this country Mir. Burns added, had taken out his first citizenship papers and an effort was made to obtain his second papers for him before he went abroad He is a Pole by birth, Mr. Burns continued and his relatives are Inow in Warsaw. He himself, was fore ed to leave Russia in 1906 because of his radical connections
 Evidence Checks up Mir. Burns said that evidence had l been gathered by the Burns detective |agenCy with checks up with inforn,r- l tion known to be in the hands of Lin- denfeld and that the data in the hands of the agency had been turned over to the government which has been working on the Lindenfed arrest in Warsaw in cooperation with the Polish government and the state de- partment through the American em- hasy there.
 Scon at Story
 New York, Dec. 17.-Local investi- gators of the Wall street bomb plot discussing the arrest in Warsaw of Wolfe Iindenfeld, pointed out today that ]. r. Morgan, for whom the bomb was alleged to have been intended was shooting in Scotland at the time, so that it would have been impossible for a woman spy to have watched him daily
 J. r. Morgan and Co.,, immediately after the explosion instituted a separ- ate investigation employing William u. Burns, then head of private de tective agency and now chief of the bureau of investigation of the depart ment of justice.
 Mir. Burns expressed belief at that time that the plot was the work of third iutprnationale