The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-19
NEW THREAT OF
BOMBING COMES
TO WALL STREET
Warming Letter Says
Explosion Is Due
Dec. I9.

New York. Dec. 19.-Wall street
principal financial institutions
were being guarded today by rein
forced details of police and prl-
yate detectives in anticipation OF
another bomb explosion, warning
of which was sent to a broker IN
the district advising him to leave
town or the vicinity of the stock
exchange Although the ponce
were Inclined to treat the anony-
nous prediction with skepuclsn,
extra precautions were taken IN
view of the disclosures expected IN
the statement of Wolfe Lindeteld,
arrested in Warsaw, in connection
with the Wall Street catastrophe CT
September, 1920.
Lindenfeld's revelations of that
plot and it's perpetrators were eX-
pected to be forwarded today TO
| William ]. Burns, director of the
| bureau of investigation of the de-
partment of justice, from the state
| department in Washington, where
the long dispatch from Warsaw
was being decOded.
The warning letter said that the
stock exchange and everything in
a radius OF five miles would be
blown up by a bomb on Dec. 10, but
the authorities were inclined to
treat it as the work of a mentally
deranged person
LindenfeId Reveals ALL
Warsaw, Dec. 19.-(By The AS
sociated Press Wolfe Lindenfeld
alias William Linde, arrested here
at the instance Of the American
( secret service for alleged connec-
ton with the Wall Street bomb ex-
plosion of September, 1920, has
made three written statements tC
the police, one of which, in Eng
lish, covers his activities for the
last 16 years.
Sylvester Cosgrove, the operative
who brought about Lindenfeld's ar
rest, yesterday Cabled to the Amer
lean department of justice the
: name of a blacksmith, who, accord
ing to Lindefeld, manufactured the
bomb and engineered the details o
the explosion. CosgroVe declare
that Lindenfeld's confession corrob
crates his previous statements tha
the plot was financed in Moscow
| and that the motive was to kill
P. Morgan, striking terror int
: America and showing the worlc
: that Wall Street was not beyonr
defiance
: Cat the time of the explosion Mr.
Morgan was in England).
The Polish authorities are partic
: ularly Interested in Lindenfeld
l Russian connections in 1906. The!
claim that he was then active il
: the Polish Social Democratic part.
I opposing Russian rule, but turned
!, traitor to the Poles, joining Lh
Russian secret service and working
against the Polish reyolutiOnaries
These activities on his part be
came so widespread that event
J ually they were exposed, and he fiet
a to America.
j Lindenfelds statement regard
1 ing hfs movements since March o
: this year, now in the hands 6f tn
( Polish political police, is said I
have showed how he worke
i against the Poles again. this tim
{ in cooperation with the Russia
Communists.
On behalf of Lindenfeld. hi
/: friends say, he lived humbly wit
l his father while in this city. an
l they discount the Polish accuse
: tion that he was involved in espioI
= age plots. They assert that b
!, never displayed much money i
l. their presence, and that when nC
. with his father here he usual
\ was with relatives at Lodz.