New-York tribune., 1922-12-27
u. S. Bans Entry
Of Lindenfeld.
But Holds Him
Ruling of immigration Bu-
reau Not to Affect Sus-
pect's Status in Wall
St. Bomb Plot Inquiry
Remains at Ellis Island
Burns Questions Man on
Warsaw Confession Inn
plicating 8 AccOmplices

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Wolfe
Lindenfeld, brought TO this country
recently by a Department ef Justice
agent in connection with tho Wall
Street bomb explosion, will be ex-
cluded from entering, under a ruling
affirmed to-day by the Bureau OF I'M
migration. The bureau upheld The ae-
tion Of the immigration authorities a.
Ellis Island, where Liudenfeld now is
held.
Details Of the findings in the case
Of the authorities At Ellis Island were
not made public here. Lindenfeld has
been held at the island since Thanks
giving Day, when he attempted volun-
tarily TO enter this country from
Europe.
II was not indicated just when the
ruling Of the Bureau Of immigration
would be put into eject. but IL was
said officially at the Department Of
Justice that the decision of the inn
migration authorities will have no ef-
feet upon the status Of Lindenfeld
with regard to the Federal investiga-
tion Of the Wall Street explosion.
Lindenfeld, IL was explained, oc-
cupies the position OF an important
cog in the wheel Of evidence which the
department has been painstakingly
constructing since the explosion.
Burns Questions Lindenfeld
No immediate steps will be taken for
the deportation o. Lindenfeld. Assist
ant immigration Commissioner H. r.
Landers announced late yesterday
after talking with the department at
Washington.
William ]. Burns, head Of the De-
partment of Justice. went TO Ellis
Island late Yesterday and conferred
with Lindenfeld, indicating to the I'm
migration officials he might be able
20 obtain valuable information regard
! ine the explosion from the man before
/ he is deported.
/ Lindenfeld first came into the case
Of the Wall Street explosion on De-
cember 16. 1921. little more than q
year after the blast occurred. On that
/ day he was arrested in Warsaw on
request Nof Sylvester Cosgrove, United
| States Department of Justice agent
| He made a statement described as q
"full confession"
Therein eight accomplices we're said
10 be named. two Of them women
The explosion had been caused, he was
reported TO have said, by a powerful
bomb. set of at the instigation Of the
Third international in Russia, and
having for It's object the assassination
Of j. P. Morgan.
Rearrested for Extortion
Six months after his arrest dis
pas,h from Poland announced the bomb
plot charges against him had been
dropped, but that new accusations OF
extoition in Poland had been made
Later Detective Sergeant Clinton Wood
OF the New York force, who had been
loaned 70 Federal authoritios for the
case, was announced 10 have arrived In
Warsaw on his mission.
|. Nndenfelds rearrest on the extor-
tion charges was reported in dis
patches Of October IL, Of this year
The next heard Of him was December
1. when it became known he had ar.
rived here on Thanksgiving Day and
was being held At Ellis Island follow,
ing investigation By special board OF
inquiry.
Burns came on from Washington al
that time 10 interview the prisoner
who went on a mysterious hunger
strike; but, though talk Of the Wall
Street explosion and Lindenfeld's 1921
confession" was revived rather exten-
sively, the charges on which the prs
oner was being detained were never
specihcally stated