The New York herald., 1922-12-02
WALL STREET BOMB
PLOT FIGURE SEIZED
windy Indy Taken to Ellis
Island on Arrival From
Europe.

! Windy Lindy," as New York radicals
| used TO call Wolfe Lindenfeld, who
boasted in Warsaw. Poland. more than a
year ago that he was the only man in
the world who knew all about the bomb
explosion and plot which killed twenty
eight persons in Wall street two years
ago last September. is at Ellis Island.
detained by the United States Govern
ment.
Mystery fogs the arrival Of Linden
Lithuania on Thursday. the same vessel
| which returned TO this country Detective
Sergeant Clinton Wood who was sent
to Poland by the Police Department last
May TO extract the truth from Linden
| field, if possible. about the Wall street
outrage 1t is known that the hand OF
Uncle Sam reached aboard the Lithu-
ania pucked Lindenfeld by the collar
and deposited him on Ellis Island for
| the time being.
Detective Sergeant Wood. assigned
back to the industrial squad OF the
| Police Department. and living at 29
Greene avenue. Brooklyn. declines to
say a word about what he heard. said
or did In his long absence in Europe or
to explain any possible connection his
lreturn to this country might have with
Lindenfelds return and arrest. Over at
| Ellis Island all official sources are i'm
| placaby mum. Commissioner OF lmmi-
grafton Robert E. Tod saying he would
appreciate not being asked TO answer
| any questions and Assistant Commits
sioner l. II. Landers insisting that he
knew nothing whatever officially about
anybody named Wolfe Lindenfeld.
Agents OF the Department OF Justice
| here were similarly reticent
! 1t became definitely known that Lin
| denfeld is now o captive and Is held
| incommunicado in the detention pen OF
the Immigrant retreat. Moreover. the
prisoner began a hunger strike yesterday
as protest against his arrest on board
the steamship Lithuania. His last meal
since coming here was on-Thanksgivins
Day AT Ellis Island, by the way. he Is
registered not as Wolfe Lindenfeld,
which Is understood TO be his real name.
but as william Linde," name the
Government seems TO have good reason
| for preserving in the records.
This man. with an extremely peculiar
! history--it was he. according TO William
! J. Burns, present head of the Bureau OF
! Investigation OF the Department OF JUS
| tice. who had warned that the Wall
! street bomb explosion was going to take
PLACES under the personal charge at
Ellis Island of John c. Hoover, Special
Assistant Attorney General OF the United
States, who has been doing nothing for
many months but work on the firnsy
threads OF the great bomb explosion.
With Special Assistant Attorney-General
Hoover are three agents Of the Depart
nent Of Justice especially assigned BY
the Washington headquarters to guard
Lindenfeld These agents are said to
have gone to Libau on information that
| Lindenfeld was about TO sail for the
United States, 10 have awaited their man
~ that port. to have kept track OF him
on the ste amship and to have clapped
him under arrest on arrival In this port
Then they spirited him to Ellis Island
where nobody except Special Assistant
Attorney General Hoover has been al
lowed TO see him.
Lindenfeld is a Pole and Is a half
! brother Of Rosa Luxembourg. the Ger
man radical who was slain In revolu-
tionary riot I'm Germany months ago.