Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-19
MANY POLICEMEN
ON GUARD TODAY IN
FINANCIAL DISTRICT
New York Officials Take
Heed of Warning Predict
ing Another Explosion.
LlNDENFELD'S ARREST
is DISCUSSED BY BURNS
Says He Has Names of Many
Plottcrs in the United
States.
EARLY ROUNDUP PREDICTED
'r''""rr In Whrsnw Is Cniicd "norn
Liar" by Ills
wife.
LlNDENFELD'S ARREST
is DISCUSSED BY BURNS
:A"Lr "ouND-ur PREDICTED
'r'>""rr In Warsaw IN Cniicd n .Dorn
Liar" by His
wife.
by United News.I

NtW YORK, Dec. lS.--Whciher =
warning letter sent 10 Charles T..
Morgan. 4 broker. urging him TO re-
main out of Wall street tomorrow
ana predicting another explosion sim
ilar 10 that OF fifteen months ago.
which caused tho death OF thirty
four persons. Is evidence OF renewed
activity 10y radicals. or merely the
work of AN Individual fanatic. is
undetermined. but TN. New York
police are taking 10 chances ant
VIII throw "A heavy force o; I.tcctivea
int" the district tomorrow for pro-
lection.
According To William j Burns.
CHIEF of Tho bureau of Investigation
o: the Department OF Justice, Their.
~ nothing significant in the fact that
announcement OF the warning" let
ter was made directly on the heels
"i the revelation that Wolfe Linden
field. who !s said 10 have direct in
formation bearing on the explosion
OF 1929. Is under arrest Ia Warsaw
Ihc warning letter, IL is said. was
sent 10 the broker carly this month
Await, Full Confcssion.
Burns explained Lindcnfcid's con-
ncction with the case AT his home In
scarborough. y Y. while he was
waiting the l0.6o0-word statement
OF Lindcnfcid. which is expected 10
throw more iighi on the originatlon
of the p!ot 10 blow up Wall street.
"Announcement of Lindcnfeld's ar
f"ht was premature said Burns. Il,
should HAY. been delayed another six
weeks 10 give ~ time 10 complete
'lr' investigation. | have cab!cd TO
sylvester 'osErove. who made the
arrest IN Warsaw, asking why il was
aivcu out.
"I.DndcUfcld came TO ~ about three
months before the explosion. lie
toli as that the technical committee
of the Communist party was plan.
uimE tremendous demonstration.
but ! believe he held out lot OF
information.
We lost touch with him for sew
F. cral weeks afterwards, hu; when we
FOUND him again we were satisfied
that he knew what was going on IN
Communist circles. We couldn't
gain anything by arrcstinE him then,
because we didn't have anything on
IL m. and II would merely have shut
nim up. He wasn't Implicated in the
pot, being more OF paclnst type
OF anarchist.
sent Him to Europe.
so we sent him 10 Europe, where
ne was To report TO us on the sit
Gatiou over there. We received no
reports from him, and when we In
v.s;igated lie declared that he had
sent them, but they had been stolen.
50 I sent CosSrovc after him. Cos
grove was a former cmployc of my
agency. and since | went TO the De-
parimcut of Justice has been one Of
the government agents.
Several weeks ago CosgrovC
cnbIed II brief statement by Linden
field. and this was followed by a
longer statement sent by mail. The
10 UOD word document we are now
awaiting is presumably an clabora
,ion on the first two. Lindcnfeld
held out on us. but l think he Will
come through now"
Burns said that II Lindcnfcld had
not failed him. a roundup OF tho
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