New-York tribune., 1921-12-19

eVie"klh OF even confirmation or the
| report that extra precautions were be-
/ ing taken was lacking at Police Head
+ quarters. it was said that Special
Deputy Commissioner Shaw. in charge
/ of the Wall Street detail had taken
steps to see that no safeguards were
overlooked
Tnc letter upon which police action
was based was sent, it is said. to
Charles T. Morgan broker, of 25
Broad Street 1t read:
ms is warning to you that the
Stock Exchange and everything within
a radius of five blocks will be blown
up on December 49, Leave town or
/ get out of this vicinity on the 10Th"
Mr.. Burns said last night at his
! home, Scarborough on Hudson, where
/ he talked with newspaper men for two
/ hours, that the so-called confession of
Wolfe Lindenfeld, reported to give
full details of the 1920 plot, was not
yet available to him. He said it was
coming from Warsaw over the State
Department cables, and that it prob
ably would not be decided fully until
some time to-day
Death Wagon Driver Known
Revealing further details OF the
work Of Lindenfeld in running down
the plotters, Mr. Burns said that the
Burns agency had been cognizant since
shortly after the explosion of the iden-
! tity of the man who drove the death
wagon to Wall and Broad streets, the
chemist who made the bomb, where it
was manufactured and every other
worth while detail of the conspiracy
This information he regarded as use
less unless the ringleaders of the out
rage could be run to earth 1t was the
search for this all-important informa-
tion that has dragged the investigation
over so many months, he declared
Despite this he added eve ~ould
have wound up the whole thing six
months ago if Lindenfeld had played
fair with u.s. He was sent to Europe
to point out the ringleaders, or those
who could lead Department of Justice
men to them.
"Fau Altendorf went first to Europe.
He was followed by Lndellfeld and
then by Sylvester Cosgrove who was
sent TO check up Lindenfelds reports
and keep tab on the plotters as Linden
field pointed them out. Lindenfeld
with failing to report said his reports
| had been lost in transit.
"Cosgrove cabled me some time ago
that Lindcnfeld wanted to come back
here and talk with me. | refused to
let him.
PIotters Influence Publicity
The 10,O0O-wor statement reported
to have been made by Lindenfeld in
Warsaw could not properly be called a
confession, Chief Burns said, because
he was not and had not been suspected
of being involved directly in the plot
1 Four days ago, he declared. govern
ment agents knew about where to put
their hands on at least the minor fig
ures in the conspiracy Now, because
Of the premature making public of Lin
denfeld's story, he doubts that any can
{ be found speedily.
denfed happened to be permitted to
talk for publication he will be brought
back to this country and placed on trial
/ or a charge yet to be determined. Mr.
Burns declared. He is inclined to sus-
pect that somehow some of the plotters
/ persuaded officials to make pubic Lin
denfeld's statement so that the smaller
J fry in the conspiracy might flee.
"When the true story of this 'confes-
sion comes OUT" said the chief, ''ir
will make newspaper sensation even
! greater than The Les Angeles Times'
dynamting case, and the revelations
that will come with it will break the
back of radcalism in this country
Put Own Money Into Hunt
Mr. Burns, in answer to question,
denied the report that the firm of ]. p
Morgan & Co. had paid the Burns
agency 100000 to carry on the investi-
cation.
Nobody paid US cent" he declared
"There was a time when we had to
put up our own money to keep going
with it."
The story that the bomb was intend
ed for J. P. Morgan was an invention
pure and simple, Mr.. Burns said He
pronounced the explosion nothing more
than a demonstration of mass action, a
step in an educational campaign of
terrorism calculated to put fear into
the hearts of the people.
'And in that it almost succeeded,' he
continued. "The bomb was placed at
the most prominent spot in the whole
world. We learned in the course of
our investigation that this location
was selected over every other possible
one by unanimous consent of those
concerned.
Lindenfeld, Mr.. Burns explained had
never, previous to the explosion, been
directly in the employ of either the
government or the Burns agency He
had been put on the Burns books as an
informant upon the recommendation Of
"a high official of the Police Depart
ment." 1t would have been sheer