The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-18
Burns Story of Is
Month Hunt of Plotters

tauutluufu FROM Yh&r Duf
Wall Street bomb outrage Of Sep
tember, 1890.
How n trail was picked up before
the manRled bodies OF the 81 victims
had bsen touched on the Uttered
streets. how a Red spy was used
TO defeat his own purposes and how
n p~ersevering band OF detectives kept
rs months on a siii hunt was re-
vcaiod tonight In an exclusive intcr-
view given the United Press by VIM.
J.. Burns. chief Of tho tinted States
Secret bureau OF Investigation.
Burns. then the head OF the Burns
International Detective Agency picked
the trail n followed Il until the
quarry waa cornered In the arrest Of
Wolfe ~IAndenfeld in Warsaw.
Lindcnfcld. or Linde. as he was
known 10 the New York police and
he Burns agency. was a Hpy for the
Reds but he was N 10 bring about
what burns declared emphatlrnlly 20
be the real solution ~ the bombing.
Iande. according 10 burns. had
lseen used as n stool pigeon by he
New York department ana applied
to the Burns aRcncy for n pasit.nn.
Hired by Burns.
He was suspected soon after being
hired but was retained to Keep the
agency In touch with the activities
of anarchistic actions He WINS an
anarchist NJ heart although he did
helieye In direct nciion.~ belonging
to the more conservative element
which believed that diplomatic moth
DDS were better than violence in
achieving their ends. He attended ali
the meetings OF the anarchist groups
and gDve valuable assistance TO the
Burns agents.
Three weeks before the explosion
We learned that the anarchists were
getting ready for a big Job" Burns
said. "Linde admitted II but denied
he knew the spot picked out. Ratur-
ally we thought Il would be the
financial district and warned several
OF tho big bankers" Burns said.
Developments failed to come and
we had about reached tho conclusion
they had learned Of our knowledge
OF plans and called them OF. Then
the explosion. I was ON the
scene within three minutes OF the
outrage. Confusion prevailed and.
strange 20 say no onc thought but
what IL was an accident.
Il rushed into the Morgan bank
and n crowd OF excited clerks asked
me what kind OF an eccldent q was.
They ~appeaFed incredulouA when I
took them to the door. pointed TO tho
monRled horse and the demolished
wagon In the gutter and told them
that the bomb was carried to the
door IN that wagon.
Fifteen minutes later I nut IL up
To Linde. / asked what h. know
about it and he said nothing
II called him a damned liar ana
Kept after him. He knew that had
b goods on him and he didn't try
TO get away. foit confident that he
knew every detail OF the story.
AS we worked on him. the story
came out little by little. but never a
lead 20 the identity OF the actual con
spirators.
Big Reward offered.
Thinking that he might be In
nuenced by money | was able TO have
a reward NJ $50. 600 offered for in
formation leading to the arrest OF the
guilty parties. We were SURPRISED
ana disappointed hat he didn't fall
for h reward but W. saw sure indi-
cations that II al working on him.
months slipped by and all the
time we were waiting and making but
slow progress. We began to get clues
only to find that the leaders OF he
organization were getting away 10
Europe.
FINALLY Tlnde consented TO tell the
story. We sent him to Europe on
hls promise TO round up the con.
spirators ana place them under arrest
We had him watched all the time
however.
we rnther expected. he failed
to carry Qua his promise. He made
no reports and the arrests We're mol
made. II was then that we sent two
Of my former agents. noss with me
In the department, over after him.
They have him now Prematur'
publication OF his arrest and some ol
the details OF the confession mad,
public will make It hard for ua buI
eventually wen get every one OF th'
band, Before long Wen be able "a
tell an the details. even 20 the route
! followed by the wagon with It's bomb
Bomb Not For Morgan.
There Ii one point I'm the con
fcssion that is not true, The boml
was not intended for ! y. Morgan
The purpose OF the anarchists wa
Ia terrorizc the entire community
They actually though. that there WI
enough explosive in the bomb 4
wreck three or four buildings nm
bring down into q pile a building un
der construction on the cornoi
DREsSMAKING. q
MADAME RosE-suts, coats. dresses. fur
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