June 7, 1919
HUNT BEGUN HERE FOR WOMEN ANARCHISTS
FLYNN GETS INSIDE TIPS FROM N.Y. BOMB EXPERTS; PLANS ROUND-UP OF REDS
Information About Suspects Furnished By Tunney and Ex-Capt. Jones.
HUNT IN OTHER CITIES.
Dangerous Radical Traced From Seattle and Now Sought Here.
After a series of all-night conferences with detectives,
special agents and various individuals who know the anarchists of the United
States and their abiding places in this city, William J. Flynn, appointed chief
of the investigating force of the Department of Justice for the purpose of running
down the perpetrators of the recent bomb outrages, left his home in Washington
Heights in a hurry at 7 o’clock this morning. He gave no intimation as to where
he was going.
Within the last twenty-four hours Chief Flynn, who as chief
of the Federal Secret Service operations in this city and as deputy police
commissioner gained an intimate inside knowledge of the men and methods adapted
to getting to the bottom of various sorts of crime, has been in touch with
Inspector Tunney, former head of the bomb squad, who is on sick leave, and has
obtained from them the names of men in and out of the police department who
have been effective against bomb setters in the past.
DANGEROUS RADICAL TRACED FROM SEATTLE TO NEW YORK.
Former Capt. Jones undertook, under Commissioner Waldo, in
1912, to find the group who set off 167 bombs in the city in the course of
labor disputes. He captured the leaders of the plot, ten or twelve in number,
and after they had made full confessions they were sent to prison.
The leaders of this band were closely associated with the
Broschi and the Ferrer group of Anarchists now under suspicion. Of the four
leaders sent to prison one is still in confinement, the movements and
associations of two have been checked…
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SECRET HUNT FOR NEW YORK ANARCHISTS STARTED BY FLYNN
…up for a year and they have cleared themselves of any
possibility of recent crimes.
One man, however, known as the most dangerous of the band, has
been traced from this city to Seattle, where he was affiliated with the worst I.
W. W. element in that city. He returned to New York six weeks or more ago and
vanished from the view of the authorities immediately after bombs were mailed
throughout the country in May.
QUEST FOR WOMEN ANARCHISTS WHO MAY BE INVOLVED.
The quest continues actively for women anarchists who may be
identified with the two women who sat on Judge Nott's door stop just before the
bomb there was exploded early Monday morning. Louise Berger, who was the most
prominent of the "high explosive ladies" and who became a public
character when a bomb in the course of manufacture in her flat killed the
anarchists Caron, Hanson and Berg, has not recently been in association with
any of the present suspects. But this is not true of several women who were her
intimates.
According to report the Anarchist blown up in Washington was
an Italian associated with leaders of two of the most dangerous radical Italian
and Spanish groups in the country. One report is that final identification was
made by piecing together fragments of his face and head.
Officials in other cities are as busy as those In New York.
In Washington the Senate has now bills prohibiting the immigration for five
years and placing more rigid restrictions on aliens, and providing for the denaturalization
of certain aliens.
In Detroit two suspects are under arrest at the request of
the Cleveland police. They may be implicated in the bombing of Mayor Davis's
home in Cleveland, where they formerly lived. They are Bulgarians, and letters
found in "their rooms indicate they were In Cleveland recently and are
members of the I. W. W. and the Russian Federation of Union Workers.
In Philadelphia the police are trying to locate an Anarchist
active in the recent Seattle strike, who is reported to have come east. In
Cleveland a young woman, secretary of a Finnish group of radicals is being held
until it is decided whether she is "Dynamite Louise."
RADICALS TO BE LOCKED UP AND MAYBE DEPORTED.
It is likely that when Chief Flynn begins his expected
round-up of radicals here the prisoners will not only be locked up, but prompt
investigation will be made as to whether they should not be deported.
Flynn brought with him the fragments of a derby hat which it
is believed was worn by the man who tried to blow up Mr. Palmer’s house. On one
part of the hat is the imprint of the makers, Lamson & Hubbard. They have a
place at No. 411 Fifth Avenue, another in Brooklyn and a straw hat factory on East
29th Street.
An effort will be made today to ascertain if there is any
way in which they can tell to whom this particular hat was sold.
Parts of the pistols found near the Palmer house and other
evidence, air of a fragmentary character, were also brought to this city by the
Chief.
Asked if the body of the man who placed the bomb had been identified,
Chief Flynn said:
"Only partly identified. I am not satisfied with the identification.
The body was so blown to bits that it is hard to piece them together. However,
we are working in every way we can to make the Identification positive."
There is now a disposition on the part of the authorities
generally to believe that in every case the man who did the actual dynamiting
came from a distance, and that whoever was responsible for the blowing up of
Judge Nott's house was not a resident of New York.
LOOK INTO THE UNION OF RUSSIAN WORKERS.
With the arrival here of Chief Flynn there will be a general
disposition on the part of all the authorities engaged in the hunt for the bomb
throwers. Including the local police as well as the Department of Justice men,
to look very deeply into the activities of the Union of Russian Workers and
others who frequent the Russian People's House on East 15th Street. That place
has been known for months as a hotbed of radicalism and the fact that the Russian
language has been used almost exclusively in the deliberations there has made it
difficult for the authorities to get as much evidence as they would like to
have.
What appeared to be the "makings" of a bomb were
found yesterday morning in the section of town in which the Berger woman's flat
was, though at a considerable distance. A container, a clock and two batteries constituted
the find. There was no dynamite and no acid; no explosive of any sort. As it
stood, the thing was harmless and was so pronounced by Owen Eagan, bomb expert.
Mrs. H. Brown, the janitress at No. 1851 First Avenue, an
apartment house largely occupied by Bohemians, found this "bomb"
under the stairway after being much mystified by the ticking of the clockwork.
The thing appeared to have been hidden under the stairs, but how it came there the
police had not been able to ascertain. Mrs. Brown informed the police, who sent
for Eagan to handle the thing.
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