Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20

plot.
At least ten men, scattered in
countries throughout the world will
be arrested. it was indicated.
Swift efforts were made to appre.
bend them immediately IN fear that
the premature arrest of Wolfe Lin
denfeld. in Warsaw, might enable
them to escape. The plan had been
to arrest them all in one swoop, but
the announcement that Lindenfeld
had been taken forced the hands Of
government operatives.
Lindenfeld himself had nothing to
do with the explosion of the bomb
in the center of New York financial
district in September, 1920, which
caused the death of 81 persons, 1t
was learned. But he has intimate
knowledge of the perpetrators and
was in league with them UP to
few weeks ago.
The man was employed as de-
tective by the Burns private agen-
CIV. Burns knew he had knowledge
of the Reds who set off the bomb
and hired him to keep in touch with
the anarchists.
Tried Double Cross
Lindenfeld. however, attempted to
play 1.-The double-cross." He was en-
ployed by the Burns people and also
was paid as an agent of the Reis
for furnishing them with informa-
ton of the Burns investigation.
Then, it is said, he threw over both
the Reds and the Burns people and
disappeared. This was after he had
been sent to Russia by the Burns
agency to trace the Reds he was sup
posed to have under surveillance.
The Burns agency sent Detective
Cosgrove to Europe after him. Cos
grove later went to Warsaw and
had the man placed under arrest.
Justice department agents are
confident the entire gang now will
be rounded up. 1t is believed they
"have something on" Lindenfeld by
which it will force him to reveal
details of the plot.
Burns said he believed all SuS-
poets would be in custody within a
1ew days.
''This will clear, the entire Wall
/ street mystery" Burns declared.
'rLindenfeld was the key man of
the situation.
'When we employed him he was
only partly trusted. 1t was known
he was an agent of Lenin and the
Third Internationale, but it was not
believed he favored anarchist tao
tics.
Detective Sent Over
detective Paul Altvenorf, anoth.
er Burns agent, was sent to Eu-
rope on the case to seek the con-
spirators on information supplied
by Lindenfeld to me. Then Linden
fcld himself was sent over. When
he failed to report, Detective Co.'S
arove was ordered to arrest him.
His parents live in Warsaw and
b" was found there
Ilindenfeld, or Linde, as he was
known to the New York police AMI
the Burns agency, was "spy" for
the Reds but he was used to
bring about what Burns declares
efnphatically to be the real solu-
ton Of the bombing.
Linde, according to Burns, has
been used as stool pigeon by the
New York police department and ap-
piled to the Burns agency for
position. He was suspected soon
after being hired, but was retained
to keep the agency in touch with the
activities of anarchist circles. He
was an anarchist at heart, although
he did not believe in "direct action"
belonging to the more conservative
element, which believed that diplo-
matte methods were better than vio-
1ence in achieving their ends. He
attended all the meetings of the an
archiSt groups and gave valuable as
gistance to the Burns agents.
Had Tip on Explosion
"Three weeks before the explo.
sion we learned that the anarchists
were getting ready for a big job"
Burns said. "Linde admitted it, but
denied he knew the spot picked out.
Naturally we thought it would be
the financial district and we warned
several of the big bankers.
Developments failed to come and
we had about reached the conclusion
that they had learned of our knowl-
edge of the plans and called them off.
Then came the explosion. I was on
the scene within three minutes after
the outrage. Confusion prevailed
and, strange to say, no one thought
but what it was an accident.
ST rushed into the Morgan bank
and a crowd of excited clerks asked
me, what kind Of an accident it was.
They appeared incredulous when
took them to the door, pointed to the
mangled 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 put it UP
to Linde. I asked him what he knew
about it, and he said-'nothing.'
IT called him a damn liar and kept
after him. He knew that had the
goods on him, and he didn't try to
Z get away. I felt confident that he
3 knew every detail of the story.
Story Leaks Out
GAS we worked on him the story
came out little by little, but never a
lead the identity of the actual con.
spirators.
thinking that he might be in
fluenced by money, 1 was able tC
have a reward of $4,000 offered for
information leading to the arrest OF
the guilty parties. We were surpris
ed and isappointed that he didn't
fall for the reward, but we saw sure
indications that it was working or
him.
Months slipped by and all the
time we were waiting and making
slow but sure progress. We began
to get clues only to find that the
leaders of fthe organization were
getting away to Europe.
Finally Linde consented to tel
the story. We sent him to Europe
. on his promise to round up the con
spirators and place them under ar
rest. We had him watched all the
time, however.
"As we rather expected, he failed
to carry out his promise. He made
no reports and the arrests were no
made. It was then that we sent two
of my former agents, now with ms
in the department., over after him
"They have him now. Premature
publication of his arrest and some