New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-23
w all St. Bomb
Suspect Held in
$4,000 Bail
U. S. Authorities Seek to
Learn Tito Ligi's Where
abOuts Between 8th and
25th of Septemb e r
Identification in Doubt
Attorney Obtains Habeas
Corpus Writ, Which Is
Returnable Next Week

ITO Llgl, the ltallan who was ar
rested Tuesday in Scranton on sus.
picion that he was the driver of the
wagon whose contents exploded Sep.
tember 16 at Broad and Wall streets
was committed to Jail in that city yes.
terday in default of $4,000 bail tc
await examination May on charge
of evading the draft.
| His attorney obtained writ Of
habeas corpus, but it is not returnable
until next week, and before that time
Federal authorities hope to discove,
, facts which either will connect Liei
directly with the explosion or will
clear him completely.
Raymond Clark, construction fore.
man, who noticed man just after the
explosion who said the fragments of
horse flesh on the pavement were the
remains of his beast, examined Liei's
picture yesterday at the local Office of
the Department Of Justice but it could
not be learned whether he recognized
it or not.
Identification Uncertain
Three others persons who believe
they saw the driver Of the wagon are
said to have arrived in Scranton yes
terday, but reports varied as to
whether they identified Ligi. One ru-
NOR was that they had done so, and
another was that they had failed to do
SO: The authorities said nothing.
hJQc cl,c
fortunate horse did not recognize Ligi's
picture as that of the man who broupht
the animal to his shop, but William J
Flynn, head of the Bureau of Investi
CATION of the Department of Justice,
said that his failure did not have much
bearing on the case, as there was moth
ing to show that the driver of the
wagon was the man who took the horse
to be shod.
Aside from seeking to find some one
who can identify Ligi, the chief en-
deavor Of the Federal detectives at
present is to discover where he was
between September 8, when he left his
employment in Scranton, and Septem.
Der Is, when they know he was in that
city They are not satisfied with the
account he gave them of his actions
during that time.
Detective Cartusciello, who arrested
Ligi, said that pieces Of metal found
in the restaurant where Ligi worked
resembling the fragments of sash
weights with which the load of explo-
sive was packed were used by Italians
frequenting. the place in playing q
game like checkers.
Attorneys Questions Barred
Ligi's attorney sought to discover in
his examination of Cartusciello just
what the authorities had learned from
his client concerning his possible con-
nection with the Wall Street explosion
but the court quickly put stop to his
nothing to do with the charge of evad-
ing the draft.
Although Ligi is said to have had
quantities of radical literature and to
have expressed himself as in favor OF
destroying all governments, his asso.
ciates in the mining town oil Moca.
naqua, Pa, say that he was the mildes,
hammered man imaginable and as pleas
ant companion as any one could wish
: Carlo Tresca made public last night
letter he wrote to Chief Flynn pro
testing against linking Ligi's name
with his in an apparent attempt to
show that, having such friends Ligi
might we'll be a dynamiter.
"Tito Ligi is friend Of mine" he
wrote, "and has been for the last ten
years. What his political beliefs are
do not know and do not care. ]
know him as a man of the utmost
moral integrity, whom it would be alb.
surd to suspect of any connection
whatever with such an outrage as the
Wall Street bomb explosion"
Tresca said that Walter Nelles, an
attorney whom the Italian workers. de-
tense committee of New York sent to
Scranton, telegraphed to him that there
was no foundation whatever for any
accusation connected with the Wall
Street bomb in Ligi's case, and that. the
stories of secret underground maya.
zines and laboratories near his home
were equally baseless.
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