Evening journal., 1921-12-17
Copyright, 1921. by the United
press)

NEW YORK, Dec. lI.-Addltlohai
arrests in the Wall street explosion
case. are expected to be made Win
In the next As hours. by Burns de-
tectives and agents Of the justice
Denartment. as a result OF the con-
fossion obtained from Wolfe LIN
denfeld, In Warsaw, by a burns ue
tective. operating for the Unlteo
states government.
..The Burns Detective Agency mas
,hoe1 working steadily on this case
since the day OF the explosion
sherman Burns. secretary-treA AsuIel al-l,l
Of the agency told the Ohieeu 'e'3
we accumulated a mass OF eNl-
aence Much Of It concerns Woils
Tindenfeld. We have been in toucn
Win Iindenfeld or Linde, as ne was
l,novn in New York. for a long tiihe'
. when william ]. Burns was appolh.
"a direotor Of the bureau OF invest
oation OF the Department or Justlee
- ,,,rned over to the government
ali Of the evidence the Burns agency
| bad collected on the case lhciuu.'s
wbat we had on Lindenfeld' Inc
6enartment Immediately took up me
trial. .so,eois
Cosgrove. who arrested Linaenielu
in Warsaw, worked on the case ioi
Ius and was transferred to the gov
eminent when the department Sc
cured the evidence we had.
In June prior to the Wall street
WINSTON we had a direct tip that
an EFFORT was going to be made 10
ovploae bomb in the financial ais
trict went personally TO the
Leading bankers in Wall Street ana
,old them OF the warning we had
received" -,,,,.
Wolfe Lindenfeld or William
IJnde. as he was known In New
York. was associated with the So
called red" groups for several
wears. He is supposed to be OF Po-
iish extraction and lived in Poland
before coming to the United states
II has been established that Lin-
denfeld was related to Rosa Luxem-
hourr wel-known German anarch-
list. who was killed in Berlin IN
1919.
In New York. Lindenfeld was pre-
surablv associated with Slavic
news agency and Is alleged to have
used this connection as cover. Tor
his real activities in connection win
anarchistic propaganda work. lie
lived in New York and in cities IN
the East for over three years. to the
, definite knowledge Of the Burns
agency.
"Iindenfeld asserted that he di-
rectlv represented the Third Inter-
, rationale in the United States" II
} was said today by detective as
signed TO the case.
AT one time it was known tna'
} in an effort TO ascertain what the
government and certain private
agencies were doing TO combat an
archistic activity in this country h'
'planted' himself as an employe OF a
/ nationally-known detective agency
, This agency ascertained his purpose
, almost at once and for a long period
used Lindenfeld as a decoy on hi'
, own red associates. IL was through
! this connection that some very val
, liable information was secured"
/. Most OF the men named by Lin
denfeld I'm his statement to the De
partment Of Justice operatives II
Warsaw as being associated with thu
Wall street explosion plot are nov
In Europe, Il is said. only two arr
believed to be still in the United
States.
New York's "bomb squad" which
has been working on the case for {
year. today discredited the alleged
confession Of Lindenfeld.
E "The story is full Of holes" It wa
said at headquarters.
Inspector John ID. Coughlin. hea,
e wounded. The police returned tn
fire with a machine gun and six o
n the attackers were shot down.
r Individual snipers were activ