Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-12-17
!. S. AGENTS trace
WALL ST. BOMBER TO
WARSAW; ARRESTED
FUGITIVE ACCUSED OF BLAST
OUTRAGE, Is CAUGHT BY DE-
PARTMENT-SAlD TO HAVE
CONFESSED HIS PART IN
CRIME.

SSNr GSoEC " ,. - N "
! CRIME.
Warsaw, Dec 1T-(By the A. Pr
/ A man by the name of Wolfe Linden
b field, alias William Linde, has been ar.
/ rested by the police here as q suspect
! in connection with the Wall street
! explosion in New York on Sept lG,
4 1920 The Warsaw police said they
/ made the arrest at the request of the
, American department Of Justice They
+, said they had the mans full confess
sion Of being connected with the dis
aster.
! Lndenfeld is described as cousin
, Of Rosa Luxembourg, the German radi-
/ cial Socialist leader who was shot to
/ death in Berlin early in 1919 after
! having been beaten by mob,
: His confession, the police state.
! gives the names OF the ringleaders
! and the New York City address where
| the bomb was manufactured and says
| also that a bomb was intended for ].
p. Morgan, but exploded prematurelT
Sylvester Cosgrove, an American de
partment OF justice agent, at whose
request in behalf of the department
the arrest of the suspect was brought
about, said Lindenfeld has agreed TO
turn states evidence and is willing to
return to America, whore he has a
wife and two children in New York
The suspects written confession,
sasaeeOrding to the agent, says that $780,
GOO was promised for the job, to be
divided among four or five persons.
and that the money was received by
New York communists from the Mos
cow Third International,
Lindenfeld left New York early last
spring. The Polish police say he was
exposed in Warsaw in 1905 as a Rus.
sian secret agent, fleeing to America
Ashprtly afterwards
According to Cosgrove and Paul
Aitendorf, who trailed Lindenfeld, the
suspect in his confession names five
aprinciples now in Europe, who shared
the money of the job One Of the
principals the confession shows. was
%agoliafl Whofroin q, window opposite
Mr. Mcrgan's mice observed the
fi,,aneietss movements sfor days, and
from her reports the bomb was tinfed
10 explode about the usual time MT.
Morgan came out for luncheon.
The confession as described by the
American agents, terms the prema-
tire explosion "a mechanical mis-
take" for which the bomb makers are
blamed. .Lindenfeld estimating that
the h0ptb exploded. from ten tQ fifteen
minutes Before the intended time.
The plottefg also accuse the driver OF
HE wagon 4,whiesss brought the bemb
rs Walt street Of Having. erred III fnot
Ieagiiig The wagen near the Morgan
ofiee. zs
Cosgroye and Alterdorf estimate
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS confession covers
hiofs2thaNg1O 600 Words and assert
that athe sdstails fit in with the mass
II other information in their posses
sion.
Further n0tice Of the confession re-
ferred to by CosgroVe show that Lin
denfeld knew Of the plans for more
than a week prior to the explosion
but denies any actual part in the
bombing preparations. He gives New
York addresses OF various individuals
involved in the plot, most Of whom
have since left the country, and also
gives a New York address where the
communists are alleged to have paid
over the cash to the plotters.
Cosgroye AYERS that his information
shows Lindenfeld had close cOnnec-
tons with Moscow, from where he re-
ceived funds regularly. BY the Polish
secret service, it is asserted that the
suspect attended at least one confer
ence at Moscow Of the Third interna.
tionale; that he was born In Warsaw,
has many relatives here and carries
abolish passport For most OF the
time since March he has been living
in Warsaw, posing as an American.
Washington Gets News.
Washington, r. O. Dec 1T By
the A. P.)-Justice department Of
ticials would not discuss tonight the
arrest in Poland OF Wolfe Lindenfeld
in Warsaw as a suspect in connection
with the Wall street explosion II was
indicated, however, that official re-
ports from Poland were expected by
the department and that further de
tails would then be available
Efforts Of the Justice department to
trace the perpetrators Of the eXplo
sion are understood to have included
the cooperation OF the police OF a
number of countries, but the depart
Saent has been guarded In any dis
3ussion Of clews, in order to avoid
disclosing information