Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-24
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Insurance Man Says Ligi Was Seen Urging Other
 Man To Leave Scene
TELLS OF EXPLOSION
Says Prisoner Ran Away Following Blast With
 Two Companions

SCRANTON. Pa. April 27.-Posi- tive Identification of Tito Ligi, arrest ed here last Tuesday on suspicion of completely in the Wall street explo- sion last September, was made here today by Thomas J. Smith. of Brook lyn. employed in the legal department of an insurance company having of fices in the New York financial dis trict.
 Smith picked out Ligi from line of six prisoners as the man he had seen arguing with the driver of the death wagon shortly before the explo- sion. He later told newspaper men that few moments before the blast he saw Ligi rushing along Cedar street, near Nassau street and Broad way, urging two companions to hurry out Of the neighborhood.
 Smith, who formerly was lieuten- ant in the New York police depart ment, assigned to Investigating incen- diary fires, said he was walking in Wall street toward Broad a few min utes before the explosion.
 At about 1I:55 a. ln. he said, he was approaching the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Company when he saw dilapidated wagon with red and black striped wheels in front of the United States assay office. h. side the wagon, partly covered with newspapers, were two barrels and two boxes about two or three feet square.
 "I thought was junk wagon" he said. My attention was first call ed to it when I noticed two men standing near the horses head, argu- ing. I crossed the street, expecting to see a fight. One of the men was about feet inches tall. roughly dressed and of poor build"
 Smith said the other man standing by the wagon was taller and better dressed This man, whom he identi- fled as Ligi. was wrangling, he said, with the smaller man apparently try ing to induce him to leave the neigh borhood. The shorter man." Smith
 
 go. l thought they were going to fight and stayed a moment. but there was no fight and I went on, turning up Nassau street.
 Just after I passed the corner of Nassau and Cedar streets, I heard the explosion. turned to go back to Wall street Running by me in the crowd I saw three men going westward in Cedar street toward Broad and I know one of them was the man I had seen wrangling with the wagon driver. Neither of the two men with him, however, was the driver
 "One of Ligi's companions was an Italian about feet inches, fairly well built. The other appeared to be an Italian and was about feet G. He had stubby black mustache. The man who had been with the driver was urging these two men along.
 "I noticed that the voice was the same as that of the man I had heard wrangling with the wagon driver and when looked it was the same man 1"
 Confronting Ligi this afternoon Smith again made a test of the pris- oner's voice. When Ligi denied he had ever seen Smith,. the insurance man declared the voice apparently the same he had heard both before the explosion and few minutes after. Ligi is being held in $10.00O bail here for appearance before federal court in Harrisburg May 3, on a charge of evading the draft.
 Turning to Raymond Clark. fore man on a construction job in the vi cinity of the explosion. Smith ask cd if that description fitted the mar that Clark had seen shortly after tho blast Clark. who also went to Scrar ton today to see if he could recognize Iigi. but who failed to do so admit ted that the general description fit ted the man who a few moments af ter the explosion rushed up to hin and shouted: My God. my hors, has heen killed .