New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
L.indenfeld Said
To Beg To Be
Returned tOU.S.
Polish Authorities Assert
Bomb Suspect Promises to
Give More Details of Plot:
Names Driver of Wagon
Has Double, Kin Claim
Doubt Prisoners Story and
Aver Another of Same
Name Is Bolshcvik Aid

WARSAW. Dec. 81 (By The Asso-
ciated Press lit was considered quite
possible to-day that the necessary pro-
cedure to take Wolfe Lindenfeld, alias
William Linde, back to America soon
would be begun. He was arrested here
last week by the Polish authorities at
the request of the American Depart
ment Of Justice in connection with its
investigation of the Wall Street ex-
plosion in September, 1920.
Intimation that Lindenfeld would
soon be returned to the United States
WAS given by Sylvester Cosgrove, agent
of the Department of Justice, who said
he believed the Polish authorities
would not object, although they had
not yet announced what action would
be taken, contending that much de-
pended upon future developments.
Lindenfeld repeatedly begs to be re-
turned to America, according to the
authorities to-day, making emphatic
promises to tell more Of the details he
claims to know concerning the Wall
Street disaster. Cosgrove says he be-
lieves Lindenfeld knows still more
than he has related. He said the po-
lice were giving Lindenfeld time to
think the situation over. Stenogra-
piers are kept waiting in the event the
prisoner desires to make further state
ments.
Wagon Drivers Name Given
Lindenfeld has given the name of
the driver Of the wagon which is said
to have taken the bomb into the New
York financial district This name, ac-
csrding TO Cosgrove, corresponds with
the one obtained by William ]. Burns,
chief Of the Bureau of Investigations
Of the Department of Justice. Cos
grove says Lindenfeld also has named
two persons who he declares manu-
factured the bomb. Lindenfcld's state
ment, he says, tells how the wagon
driver escaped from the vehicle just
before the explosion occurred and how
other principals in the alleged plot ar
ranged to be far from Wall Street on
the day of the explosion The state
ment is said to assert that one of the
principals managed to be a thousand
miles away and that others were scat
tered throughout New York and neigh
boring states awaiting ncws Of the
outcome of their plans as carried out
by the driver,
The Jewish newspapers, which are
the only publications in Warsaw that
nave paid much attention to the Lin
denfeld case, say Lindenfeld's relatives
advanced the theory that the prisoner
has double who has Communist con
nectlons. Lindenfeld's relatives are
quoted as saying that his double had
been travelling under many aliases. that
the doubles real name also is Linden
field and that he has spent much time
II America.
Posed as u. S. Vice-Corsul
The relatives are reported as assert
ing that the Lindenfeld who is in pri-
son here has no connection with the
alleged explosion plot. According to
the Jewish newspapers, they claim that
Llndenfeld, the prisoner, spent much
time last summer in Eastern Galcia
posing as an American vice-consul and
selling counterfeit passports, with coun
,erfeited American vises, to emigrants
Lindenfeld's passport, said to have been
procured in New York, gives his age as
thirty-three. When he was arrested
the prisoner told the police he was
thrty-eight years old.
The Polish police profess to doubt
the double theory, but are investigating
it on account of the age and other dis
crepancies in Lindenfeld's statements