June 10, 1910
DYNAMITE LOUISE LINKED WITH 'J.M.' CLUE IN BOMB PLOT
Letter Known to Have Been Sent to Her by Slain Assassin.
Following a report today that the anarchist who was destroyed by his own bomb that last week at the home of Attorney General Palmer, in Washington, had been partially identified as a man whose initials were “J.M.,” detectives and secret service men in New York began a hunt for the “J.M.” who is known to have written a letter from No. 540 East 45th Street to the Red leader known as “Dynamite Louise” Berger.“Dynamite Louise,” whose half-brother, Chris [sic] Hanson, was one of the three anarchists blown to pieces at 140th Street and Lexington Avenue on July 4, 1914 has not been heard from by the police since she was reported to have gone to Russia a year or two ago. She is said to have been a frank and open exponent of violence.
The house-to-house search for the mysterious “J.M.” in the East 45th Street neighborhood was scarcely second in interest today among the hunters of anarchists to the report that Detective Sergeant James J. Gogan had hurriedly left New York at midnight with two suit cases filled with photographs and manuscripts bearing on the case.
Gogan, formerly head of the local Bomb Squad, is said to have a knowledge of Reds and I.W.W.’s second to that of no other policeman in the country. While he would not say where he was going, his destination is believed to have been Bessemer, Pa., the Chief of Police of which city was sure yesterday that he had found the place where the bombs were made for the recent opening of the Red “was” on capitalism.
Gogan is known to have received a long distance call last night at his home in Brooklyn, and following a long talk over the wire was in conference with Second Deputy Police Commissioner Lahey. Two New York detectives were sent to Bessemer yesterday from Philadelphia and two more from Pittsburgh. It is supposed to be one of these men who called Gogan up last night.
Because of the particular fondness of the Anarchists for demonstrations on anniversaries. 300 policemen in plain clothes were sent out today in New York to guard public buildings, homes of public officials and prominent citizens, churches and other institutions.
The plain clothes guard will be continued, it was said, up to and including July 11, Bastile Day. Today was the anniversary of the execution of the French Anarchist Ravachel,…
