The New York herald., 1921-04-25
GIRL IS SOUGHT in
EXPLOSION PROBE
Search Made for Betty
Sweetheart of Wall st.
Bomb Suspect.
GONE SINCE ARREST
Detectives Discover Shaft
Leading From Old Mine
to Li9'i'S Home.
MORE TO SEE PRISONER
Decision on Habeas Corpus
Plea Expected Tomorrow
Case Stirs Scranton.
GONE SINCE ARREST
MORE TO SEE PRISONER

Special Despatch 70 THE Nrw YoRg HERALD.
SCRANTON. Pa, April 24-The Lacka-
wanna Valley, from Scranton 10
Wilkesbarre, was covered by detec-
tives to-day In he search for the mys-
terious Betty" who is said to be the
sweetheart Of Tito Ligi, the Wall
street bomb suspect. She has become
the central figure in the investigation
| of the local, New York and Federal
| officials since the admission Of Ligi
| that he is an anarchist, and his identl-
! fication Saturday as man who stood
| beside the death wagon" In Wall
street a few minutes before the ex-
plosion.
Betty, whose name has entered the
case before, is described as a pretty
italian girl, who has been almost con-
tinuously In the company of Ligi for
more than a year. She at one time
worked in a restaurant where the
suspect was a waiter and disappeared
simultaneously with his arrest last
Tuesday afternoon. Friends OF the
girl in this city insist that she can
account for Ligi's movements between
September and September 70.
Refore coming to Scranton Betty Is
understood to have lived in Old FORGE
eight miles south of this city. Old Forge
| was the centre of radical activities OF
northeast Pennsylvania during the war.
| The headquarters Of the /. w. w. in
that town was raided two years ago,
more than $50 arrests being made by
the State police.
OLD Forge was one of the first places
the detectives went to to-day. They in
terviewed several persons acquainted
with Betty. but all asserted they had
not seen her in inany months, From Old
Forge the detectives went 10 Wilkes
barre. where the girl was employed at
one time, but their search was equally
unsuccessful there.
While the search for Betty was being
made, Detective Sergeant Cornelius
Brown OF the New York bomb squad and
Detective John Gilroy of the Scranton
police revisited the abandoned mine
shaft in South Scranton. The local po-
lice have expressed the belief that the
a mine snaft in the I4ackawanna VAL
| ley and possibly I'm the one In South
| Scranton. which Is in the centre OF an
Italian mining colony.
The suspicious of the local police were
first aroused two months ago when resi-
dents of "Shanty HILL" by which name
the section Is known, reported having
heard explosions almost nightly In the
woods directly east of the shaft. Each
explosion would be accompanied by a
flare as though some one was expert
menting with explosive
Last week there was a cavein on
Shanty Hill" They are not unusual
in Scranton. as the city Is built on top
Of one OF the largest mines In the an
thracte region, but this one revealed a
shaft that ran from the junction of
Breck street and Prospect avenue to a
point almost directly under 521 Breck
street, where Ligi lived before his arrest.
There also was found a trap door
| leading TO the shaft not far from the
suspects home. Since the Federal
agents and New York detectives reached
| here they have made almost daily visits
4 to the shaft. Nearly all the chambers
\ on the first level had been searched up