Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
| Mad Bomber
Hunt Shifts 10
IN. Y. Suburbs

WHITE PLAINS. N. Y, Jan.
a R.-New York police are op.
Ierating on the assumption that
the mad bomber" lives in this
suburban county and probably in
this city 20 miles from downtown
Manhattan.
New York Deputy Inspector
Frederick M. Lussen, who heads
THE police search for the Mad
Bomber. said yesterday the as
sumption was based in large part
ION plumbers terms for the
length of pipe used in the bombs.
Meanwhile, rash of hoaxes
continued in New York as we'll
as in other parts of the Nation.
Arrests and fines for false bomb
reports also continued to mount.
In New York almost 200 bomb
Iscares have been received since
ia live bomb, linked by police to
the authentic Bomber" was
found December "a in the New
York Public Library. Another Of
his unexploded bombs was found
in the Paramount Theater in
Times Square December %.
False Tip in Texas
A Houston, Tex, junior high
school was evacuated yesterday
on a false tip that a bomb was
Iplanted there.
Three elementary schools In
st. Petersburg. Fla, also were
evacuated after similar anony-
nous telephone calls. About
l 400 students we're affected.
In New York yesterday. %
bomb scares were received. Dep
uty Inspector Lussen said that
lin letters the Mad Bomber" is
thought to have written in the
past 16 years, the term well
coupling" was used. The in
Ispector said police have found
well coupling" was term used
by Westchester County white
Plains plumbers only. New York
plumbers use the term Zine pipe
coupling" he said.
Deputy Inspector Lussen did
not say why police think the
Eomber lives in this city. How
ever, it is known that of seven
letters or postcards written from
Westminster, six bore a White
Plains postmark.
Deputy Inspector LusSen'S dis
closure came at meeting here
of IS officials representing 80 po-
lice departments in Westminster
County.
Sought Since 1910
The Mad Bomber" has been
sought in vain since 1910 by New
York police for planting some
"a homemade bombs. Twenty
two have exploded, injuring IS
persons. Police say it is a mir
acle no one has been killed by
the "Bomber's" devices.
Three teen-aged Staten Island
high school girls were taken into
custody after they allegedly
telephoned false bomb reports to
their New York schools.
Zulma Santiago. 16, of Cas-
Teton Corners. pleaded not
guilty to charge of making q
call yesterday to the new Dorp
High School. She was held in
$500 hail for a hearing next
Tuesday.
Two l5-year-old girls were ac-
Icused OF making telephone warn
lings Wednesday to the Curtis
High School, St. George. Yester-
day simulated bomb was. found
on the schools lawn.
HOaxer Fined $1,000
In Perth Amooy, N. j.. John
Mats. a 42-year-old laborer,
was fined 81 .000-with an alter
native Of year in jail-on his
conviction as a hoaxer who twice
on New Years eve made calls in
which he said the Packer Hotel
il the community contained q
bomb.
Hartford, Conn. police took 81
teen-agers into custody and said
they admitted making at least
u bomb hoax telephone calls in
the last two days. Six of the
teen-agers were girls.
Schools still appeared to be
the favorite target of bomb
hoaXers in New Jersey yesterday.
despite the determination Of
most officials to have pupils
make UP any lost time.
Trenton police arrested II
year-old youth after a tele-
phoned bomb threat was received
at Central High School there.
Police said the boy, who was not
identified. had made the call
from coin box in the school
corridor.
Suspecting hoax. police al
lowed the 5000 students to re-
main in the school during a
search. which turned up no ex-
plosive. The youth was turned
over to juvenile court authorities.
An unemployed machinist also
was arrested in Irvington, N. j..
and accused of making a false
bomb call early last Saturday to
the Hospital for Crippled Chill