The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-12-21
SUSPECT
REVEALS
DETAIL!
Identity Is Held
Secret as Poles
Seek Others for
Wall Street Blast
BY JOHN GRAUDENz

| Copyright. 1891. by tho United rsomo
WARSAW. Poland, Die. 2l<-
Wolf Lindenfeid, held hero n
connection with the Wan -
bomb murders. has named II
aecompIices. for whom detecltvO
are now searching. DIR. StaniAlams
OulLowsld. chief commiasaFy q
the Polish political police, declng.
ed today.
DIR. Oukowsli gave tire Umlta1
Press \ complete record n LII
denfeId's activities, both beforo
and after the dynamiting. takeu N
from the archives Of the sacre4
police.
This threw the first lignt u p9b-
licity on Lindenfeid's inside history
POLICE SEEKING 4
MORE CLUES
While police were cross Questiou0nn
Iindenfeld. endeavoringto elicit furs
ther Information from him, DR.. OIL
kowski told the United Press the H.
! lowing had already been ascerfaInn01
!. Lindenfcld undoubtedly was ~
volved i'm the bombing. becauso ho
knew minutely in advance how the
preparations were made. how tho
bomb was manufactured and how g
WAS to be set off.
2 He did not actually particpaAo
In the bombing. but he knows vho
did. The names OF six accomplicoo
were not divulged by DR.. oulkowuo1
for fear they would take the alarm
ard escape.
The Polish authorities are anxiouv
10 deport Lindenfeld to the Unit
States at the earliest possible mo-
ment
Lindenfeld. DIR. Ourkowsld sni1
was born in Warsaw in 1889. He =
married. his wife being in New York
and has two children
WORKED AS SPY
AMONG RADICALS
He participated In a revolutionary
movement In Poland in 1906. Whllo
a member OF the German section oc
The socialist party and employed -
a store clerk, that party decided u
punish him for strike-breakinE.
Thereupon Lindcnfeld sought -
lice protection. The police employed
him as spy among the radicals. Is
was his duty to try and incite the
radicals TO attempt some unlawful
deed and then inform on then.
Eventually Lindenfeld went to Amer
lea. He changed his name to Linda
and worked as a tailor's cutter.
Later he was employed as a detective
by the Burns agency.
He also started n political news
paper called the Tribuna, devoted to
labor questions and to war upon capi-
talists. He became a member OF the
New York Press club. on Spruce St.
and also of the international labor
party. He claims TO have advance
knowledge of the plot to set off q
bomb in Wall Street. knew the namea
of those involved and where and how
the Internal machine was manufao-
tured.
After II was set Off at Broad and
Wall SITS. in September. 1920. killing
81 persons, Lindenfeld went to will
liam J. Burns. he says. and offered
to go to work for him again, for tho
purpose of locating the dynamiters.
He declares he received 50 900 from
Burns and shortly thereafter disap-
peared
Is DISCOVERED
by DETECTIVE
He returned TO Poland. where he
got into close connection with tho
communists and attended meetings in
Brussels. Zurich. Berlin and Moscow.
About this time Burns sent De-
tective Sylvester Cosgrove to Europe
TO locate him. Lindenfeld discovered
he was being shadowed and immedi-
ately left his hotel without paying
his bill.
I'VE have not yet been able TO
prove that he actually participated
in the Wall Street bombing" said the
"altho he has confessed
that he had complete knowledge OF
all details beforehand. We cannot
give the names of the six persons
he implicated because the warning
would be untimely.
HE amends his statement daily
and frankly admits that he has been
lying"
The examination of Lindenfeld Is
being continued. His questioning so
far is referred to by the police q a
investigation