Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07
POLICE ARE MYSTIFIED.
New York Bombings Believed Due TO
Grievance Against Lines.

NEW YORK, August R).-The
explosion of two bombs that last night
wrecked two subway stations. tied up
for several hours the two main under
ground arteries of Manhattan and in
'9ured a score of persons provided
police today with a mystery as per-
picking as any they ever tried to
solve.
Hours after the explosions no trace
of the two bombs had been found, and
although one man was under arrest,
police vacillated between belief that
sympathizers with Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti. radicals await
ing execution for murder in Boston,
had set the bombs or that the bomb
jngs We're the work OF persons with a
grievance against the transit com
panies. finally switching TO the latter.
Arrested at Cathedral.
Morris Seigel. the man under ar
TEST. was taken into custody a few
hours after the explosion. A patrol
man found him peering into a Win
dow of st. Patrick's Cathedral, about
mile north of the bombed stations
He was described as Russian, II
years in America. A search of his
rooms disclosed a newspaper photo
graph of bombing scene and book,
The Life History of a Traitor" This
was the story of a Russian spy.
Police said that Seigel told of
working in Western harvest fields,
that he declared he was not convinced
that Sacco and Nanzetti had a fair
trial and that he expressed himself
as opposed to capital punishment.
After a rigorous examination, Seigel
was held without bail on a charge
of being implicated with the bomb
explosions, but William Ryan, assist.
ant district attorney, said he had no
proof that Seigel was guilty and had
asked that he be held as a precau
ton
The New York Sacco.Vanzetti de
fense committee ridiculed the idea
that the bombs had been placed by
friends OF the radicals.
Idea Is RidicuIed.
I'VE have waged a peaceful strue
gle for seven years" Rose Baron
secretary Of the Sacco-NanZetti emer
gency committee, said. and it is ridi
culous TO think We would now resort
TO outrages."
The police belief Of a Sacco-Van
zetti connection was fostered bv re
ports of bombings in Baltimore. Phila
delphia. BuenOs Aires and Montevideo
But they said that at no time die
they have any proof. Shortly after
q threatened strike was settled sew
eral days ago, bomb was found ir
y subway but police declined 10 give
information regarding their switch Il
the theory that persons with griev
s'ice against the transit compa ME.
had placed the bombs.
The bombs were placed in Twenty
eighth street station of the Manhat
IAN and the Interborough Rapit
Transit Cos. One on Fourth avenue
and the other on Broadway, Neither
is an express stop, and just before
midnight, the hour of the explosions
the stations are not usually crowded
Strict Guard Established.
Assistant District Attorney Rvar
SAID that not fragment of eithe
bomb had been found. and he AL
tributed this to the fact that labor
ers had been rushed TO the station
10 clear the lines.
Despite the police theories. a stric
guard was established on all transi
lines Commissioner Warren can
celed all police vacations and sai'
that ne would hold his force Of "a 90
men ready for emergencies.
Special guards We're posted at Cit,
Hall. the mayors home, the Fedora
buildings and the homes of promi
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