Wall Street Outrage.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1921, Page 3

Wall Street Outrage.

| ARRESTS BEING MADE, j (Received This Bay at 5.30 a.i11.) j NEW YORK, December ]7. i W. .1. Burns, head of the Depart | meat of Justice criminal investigation Department, states the arrest in War- ! saw of Wolf Lindenfcldt, will clear up the entire mystery of the Wall Street explosion of lGtli. September 1920. Burns declares Lindenfcldt himself is not implicated in the explosion, but was so close to the radical elements who perpetrated it, that he knew the full facts. The Third Internationale was the moving spirit behind the plot. According to Lindenfcldt, it supplied thirty thousand roubles to Hadteails here who planned the outrage. NEW YORK. December 17. According to Burns. Lindenfeld was originally sent abroad, by the .Justice Department to obtain information that would lead to the arrest of the plotters. When no reports were received from him. an agent, Cosgrove was sent to find him and Lindenfcld’s arrest followed. Coifed States authorities have evidently been long in possession of thi' information contained in Lindenfeld’,s confession, even knowing the names of the plotters. The arrests were delayed for want of additional information, which the Dcpartof Justice now has. Early arrests arc

tli us expected. According to I.indenfeld’s confession, the plot aimed to destroy .1 I’. Morgan and his offices. He asserts that a woman spy watched Morgan’s offices for weeks reporting Morgan’s movements. The bomb was timed to ex plode as he was leaving the office. h* l went off prematurely. Washington officials point out that while Morgan was in Europe at the time, this discrepancy in Lindenfeld’a confession is accountable for by the fact that the woman mistook someone else for Morgan.