Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-12-19
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New York, Dec. 1.-THE thrills
which New York experienced in Sep
TENDER, 1920, when Wall street was
rocked by a bomb explosion which
killed nearly two score, were revived
tonight.
Coincident with the arrest of sus-
pect in Warsaw and the arrival from
Washington of William j. Burns,
chief of the Bureau of Investigation
Of the Department of Justice, to take
personal charge of the case, there
We're circulating in the downtown
financial district reports of new
radical plot to blow up the Stock Elk
change.
The authorities, while admitting
that special guards had been placed
around the Exchange and other
buildings, professed to attach no
great Importance to reports that
threatening letters had been received
by number of brokers. In this con-
nection were recalled a number of
postcard threats. to blow up the
custom house and post office which
followed the sensational blast of 1920
and failed to materialize.
Mr.. Burns. on his arrival added
nothing TO his statements in Wash
ington that the Warsaw arrest of
Wolfe LiEdenfeld. formerly represen-
tative in New York of Lenine and
the third internationale and later in
the service of the Department of
Justice, would clear up the entire
mystery by which the case had been
surrounded. Mr.. Burns said nothing
tending to confirm reports all day
that arrests in New York would fol-
low his arrival.
During the investiga ton. which oX-
tended around the world with the Of
fer of rewards exceeding 100000
and resulted in the arrest in this
country and Canada of score of
suspects. who were subsequently,
discharged. Mr. Burns maintained
from the first that the explosion was
the work of the third internationale,
as indicated now in dispatches from
abroad.
Suspects rounded up and discharg-
cd included:
, An eX-tennis player. arrested in
Canada, after he had claimed a psy-
chic influence had led him to foretelI
the disaster.
An ex-convict in Wisconsin peni-
Tertiary, later found to have been
behind the bars when the blast oc-
CURED.
Five seamen taken from a ship at
New orleans and later cleared.
Three Cleveland suspects. one a
woman, later freed.
Two Pittsburg suspects. one later
lodged in jail for lodging the draft.
A Bayonne truckman who was able
to establish. cast-iron alib.
A wrestler. arrested in Omaha. but
later proven 10 have been engaged
on Western mat the day of the ex-
plosion.
Mr.. Burns reiteratefthat there was
no question. that in Lindenfield's ar
rest the Department of Justice had
solution of the explosion.
We have known it all along" he
said.
He regretted, he declared, that the
Warsaw police had permitted Lin
denfeld's capture to become known
at this time as it had been the in
tention to withhold the information
50 that the investigation might be
unhampered.
1t was through I.indenfeld. Mr.
Burns said, that the Burns. agency
learned. prior to he Wall street eX-
plosion. that something was going
to happen" but he added that the
exact location could not be determin-
ed. He refused to state whether sus-
poets were now in this country. as
sorting that the number of persons
involved might be anywhere from l.
to 800
Mr.. Burns added that the opera
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