The New York herald., 1921-04-24
WALLSTREET MAN
SURE HE SAW LIGI
AT DEATH WAGON
Identifies Suspect as Being
i'm the District Before
Bomb Blast.
TALKING TO DRIVER
Two Others From N. Y. Fail
to See Likeness in Stacker
at Scranton.
MORE ARRESTS PROBABLE
Suicide in Brooklyn Who in
Note COnfessedlPl0t Was
Likely Insane.
MORE ARRESTS PROBABLE

Tito Ligi. the anarchist under ar
rest in Scranton as a draft dodger,
was positively identified yesterday by
Thomas Smith, formerly lieutenant
in the New York Fire Department, as
a man who was standing beside the
death wagon" in Wall street Ave min
utes before the explosion of September
16 last.
He was lined UP with six other pris-
oners in the Lackawanna County JAN
and witnesses of the explosion were
called in. Raymond Clark, the con-
tractors foreman who saw the driver
of the wagon just after the blast did
not identify any Of the seven. A sec
ond witness also failed. But when
man who is employed in the financial
district and whose identity is not dis
closed entered the room he walked
right UP to Ligi, who was in the mid
die of the lineup, and placing hand
on him, said:
This is the man"
Detectives who had gone to Scran-
ton to question Ligi and witness the
attempt at identification started for
New York Immediately to report to
William ]. Flynn, Chief of the Secret
Service of the Department of Justice.
They reached New York at 7:12 last
night and Immediately went to see
Flynn at the Hotel Astor.
pnsfxSvA IN Mcu tim.
The New York business man who
identified Ligi as n person who WAS
standing beside the wagon and talking
with the driver admits that although he
had seen pictures of the suspect in
newspapers within the last few days
he went not by them but by his own
recollection of the mans face.
A man who killed himself in Brooklyn
yesterday morning left a letter saying
that he was the author of the Wal.
street explosion The police believe he
was mentally deranged and had moth
ing to do with the crime. but are check
ing his movements In this and other
cities.
His name was Adolph T. la Sar, JIe
had been a Iunchroom cook and many
other things. He shot himself in his
room in a lodging house kept by Mr..
and Mrs. George Joyce, 217 Carlton
avenue, Brooklyn. In the room were
two revolvers, one of which he had
used on himself, a half pint bottle OF
nitric acid. the same amount Of sui
phuric and four ounces each of glycerine
and sodium phosphate, and mass of
,.,tf e.,
Ink and pencil.
In one paper he named two men. one
In Chico go, the other proprietor Of
lunch room in Columbus avenue. against
both OF whom he bore grudges.
"They." wrote La Snr. furnished the
money for the wagon load OF INT that
/ set off in Wall street Give EN- hell.
His Confession Not Dated.
La Sars claim to being responsible for
the Wall stree. disaster was not dated.
but was found on his table with other
papers dated April 20. He was 81 years
old, was dyspeptic and had been
treated for failing eyesight at the New
York Ego and Ear Hospital
la Sar formerly worked for the Inter
national Motors Company, 262 West
Slxty-IOuTtH street. az n DDOhhttUtT
In the Columbus avenue lunchroom as a
short order cook. He had sued the
lunchroom boss in the Municipal Court
for sass. He had lived at Mills hotels
In West Thirty-sixth street and in
Bleecker street and In many lodging
houses.
Charles ]. Scully. chief OF the bureau
OF criminal Identification OF the Depart
ment of Justice, was one or the agents
who came back from Scranton last night
and reported to Chief Flynn lie has
been investigating conditions in the coal
mining district since Ligi's arrest. II
was indicated last night that other ar
rests would be made in that section TO
determine what connection, IL any. Llgi
had with the Wall street explosion. Ligi
still SAYS he was in Scranton at the
time.
Scully had charge Of the attempted
Identification of Ligi yesterday in the
county jail at Greenridge, suburb Of
Scranton. The young Italian, who has
been held incommunicado since his ar
rest. gave no sign Of emotion when
Smith placed his hand on Ligi's shoul-
der
The identification was made after
both the other witnesses. including
Raym and Clark. foreman for a. Volk
a Co. had said he was not the man
who drove the death wagon.
Smith, who Is now an insurance
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