New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Net Closing on
Bomb PI0tters.
Burns Declares
Asserts Lindenfeld Is Only
Spoke in Big Wheel and
Confession Will Eventsz-
ally Land Conspirators
Prisoner Liar, Says Wife
Threat of Explosion i'm
Wall Street Fails: Blue
Barrel Causes Only FURRY

The air Of mystery surrounding the
reported solution of the Wall Street
bomb plot became almost Uncomfortable
last night.
William j. Burns, chief of the De-
partment of Justices bureau Of inyesti-
cation, talked at length with news
papermen several times yesterday in
the Offices of the department at Is
Park Row. He chatted amiably on
contemporary issues of the case, TAX
ing refuge in his customary ~ don't
care to discuss that only when ques-
tions became too pointed.
Despite surface indications pointing
to suspicion that government agents
are being misled into thinking some
thing has happened that hasn't Mr..
Burns stood pat on his original declar-
ation-that the "confession" in War
saw, Poland, Of Wolfe Lindenfeld
would clear up the case and eventually
land behind bars the plotters whose
Internal machine ended thirty-nine
lives and injured more than zoo per-
sons at Wall and Broad streets wear
ago last September.
Bomb Threat Fails
Incidentally, there was no repetition
OF the explosion, as threatened, in the
financial district yesterday. A strong
ponce guard found little to do but keep
on the move persons who insisted on
block danger area and waiting patient
ly for something to blow up. Mr.
Burns didn't say 81 told you so"- he
had scoffed the night before at the
possibility of another demonstration,
| but remarked that the terrorists had
been obliged to issue rain checks"
The chief of the government detec-
tlvcs was unable to guess, he said. why
he had not heard from his men in
Warsaw, particularly Sylvester Cos
grove, who was sent over to help per-
suade Lindenfeld to walk into the tran
which Mr.. Burns said he had caused
to be balted with $4,000 reward to
make it attractive enough to arouse
Llndenfeld's cupidity. He still insists
ne IS expecting hourly to get the gist
OF Llndenfeld's statement over State
Department cables, together with full
report from Cosgrove, DR.. Paul Alien
dorf and two other "shadows," either
Department of Justice or Burns men.
explaining how the fact that the con
fesslon" had been made happened to
become public.
Denies confession" Is Ruse
Mr.. Burns seemed amused when it
was suggested that it had been sus-
pected in some circles that the re-
ported arrest and confession of Lin
denfeld was "plant" devised here for
the purpose of driving into the net
N fright the plotters here and in Eu-
rope, who, being told that Lindenfeld
had made clean breast of everything.
including names and addresses, would
come in and offer to tell all they knew
in the hope of saving tneir own hides.
1--WE been called a lot of things in
my day" observed the Secret Service
chief, "but nobody has ever said |
was a damn fool. A trick like that
would be the last resort of defeated
investigator, and we are far from that
Don't think for minute that Lin
denfeld is our only source of informa
ton. He was one spoke in a great big
wheel, and that wheel is still going
around and around. Pretty soon it's
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