Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-20

New York, oct. 20.-Although per
sistently banfeG in their forts 90
solve the mystery Of tho Wall street I
explosion, which last year killed 80
persons. injured 200 and caused near /
lly 100000 property damage. the
New York police and detectives of the
United States Department of Justice
have never for moWont abandoned
IL. Investigation OF this so-cailed
master crime Is still proceeding quiet
ny but determinedly. every detective
lcberishlng the dream that some day
he will triumphantly march the guilty
criminal into an amazed and envious
Headquarters.
Upon the anniversary Of the dis
aster, couple Of weeks ago. the
financial district Of the city haa placed
under heavy guard. Upper Fifth
avenue shone brilliantly with brass
buttons. while downtown. detective
from the bomb and homicide squads
of the Police Department covered
the Sub-Treosury and the Assay OF
fee and the large banking houses Of
/ the neighborhood, eagerly waiting for
some lndicatio. Of proposed violence
+
, Of course, nothing happened. After o
long day Of hopeful suspense, the
guards went safely home to bed, -ard
the mystery OF the bomb outrage
certainly one Of the most curious that
has ever puzzled the police was adj
!. mitted TO be no nearer a solution. a
few officials went even further and
q admitted that II had been impossible
4 even to establish tho fact that bomb
= was planted by any one.
That the crime was planned and
perpetrated by an anarchist or a groul
" Of anarchists Is the theory which th,
police have been working ON an alouf
"a theory presumably well found ai
upon. clues discovered on the scene %
the crime. Accordingly, the searci
for criminals has been confined chieh'
- 70 radical groups throughout tho coun
try. In the past year several suspect
!, were arrested by the agents Of IN
N Department Of Justice but all wer
- later released for lack Of suficien
a. evidence. Occasionally, one hears th
theory advanced that the whole ga
- tastrophe was an accident, but so
cannot make the police believe tha
~ Where" they ask quickly. DO th
in sash weights nt into the accider
theoryY why would an lnnocer
wagon Of INT be laden with sas
q weights, which, in the explosion, sea-
X tered ike pieces Of shrapnel anon
~ the crowd causing much injury
10 And the terrible sash weights a.
at only one item in the list Of stranl
evidence n seems 10 sustain %
'or theory that the explosion was plal
ned.
sp The Known Facts.
'ss The polio, kno that on the NOR
'u' ing Of September 16. 920 q wag'
~ flied with high explosives and draw
hy an underfed horse, was driven
~ Wall and Broad streets the heart
New Yorks great financial district
rim and parked in front Of the Unit
a. states Assay Office directly across Z
street from the j. p. Morgan ha
the building. a location not more than
,ht feet from the New York stock p
er. change. The MONDAY crowds We
ok. filling the narrow streets when
tes. blast came.
in The shock was so great that peol
,el- in distant Brooklyn were frighten
II
per You can imagine therefore, wh
on havoc it wrought among the GRO"
the in wall street In a brief interval
seemingly a few seconds-l,t0O D
licemen were on the scene hghu
back the thousands Of persons w
rushed forward, in order that
wounded might not be trampled up
IN and that the ambulances and ~
tor wagons might have free way. IN
iNlc arrived upon a CHASTITY scene. Nicu
on were strewn about in all directio
eX- some dead, some dying, and ma
ree suffering from painful minor injuri
iuts The dilapidated vehicle which Z
viii hauled the explosives was shattel
unit into atoms, while the head Of
ure equally dilapidated horse was piel
lay up on the steps Of the United sta
viii Assay Office.
the The police soon had the sire
and roDed off and the scene OF the era
will cleared in order that all existing eli
rida might be preserved for invesugatl
Detectives from police headquart
and agents from the nearby Depa
ment Of Justice Offices, including 50
of the most expert criminologists
the country were aAhho9e
on hand, checking up bits OF eFldef
Questioning alleged witnesses ana q
ing various reports
Fairly intelligent descriptions OF
horse and wagon We're obta ned II
three persons who claimed TO b
seen tn vehicle clo -er into v
street. Hoof pads Of tie horse, b.
ing the inscriptions Bison Hoot
Company, Buffalo New York.
picked up, and from the size Of q
pads the Investigate We're able
Judge the exact weight Of the no
They were also able 70 judge f
the size and extent Of the disaster
1t had been caused by approxima
200 pounds Of INT. The presence
small bits OF metal, scattered owe
ID. vast erea (the deadly pieces Of s