The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 1

r firs HL per To Be Sure of Your Newsd Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from ler : 3: i) OMB CAUSED _ SECRET SERVICE EXPERTS f “Circulation Books Open to All.’ } VOL. LXI. NO, 21,538—DAILY, Copyright) 1020, by The Preas Co. (The New York World), f “Cireulation Books Open to au.” | S27 NSTA OBERT NORAD Pubiishing NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920. ~ PRIES ADVANGE Buying Is Active, With No| Trace of Mental De- | pression, CANVAS IN WINDOWS Banks Doing Business Usual, but With Heavy Extra Guards. as ‘The mental depression aaused by yesterday's explosion did not affect eecurity values in to-day’s stook market. The vigorous upward move- ment in progress when business was Wuspended yesterday was resumed when the Exchange opened, Before the end of the drat hour gains in| Jeading issues ranged from a potnt| fo more than two points. ‘There were few traces of the dis- aster at the Exchange aside from the | temporary windows covered with can- | vas in place of the hugo windows splintered by the explosion, Despite the immense property dam- age to banks in the immediate vicin- ity of the explosion, business was go- ing on as usual, Clerks of J, 1’, Mor- gan & Co. insisted on working all last | night in clearing up the debris on the main floor of that firm's building, Partners of the Morgan firm began to arrive at their office vhortly after 10 o'clock. Thomas Corcoran was the P. Davison refused io make any comment. Dwight Morrow and Thomas W Lamont seemed mostly pollcitous regarding the number of fnisaing persons that had been located J. Spencer Morgan, son of J, P, Morgan, and tho only member of the Morgan tirm that was injured In the explosion, had not come down to the Sffice up to noon, Wall Street was ewarmed with Chousands of sightaecers, and it became necessary for the police to make traffic regulations for pedestrian Nrewe could only go down Wall Street on the gouth side while people going toward Broadway had to travel on the north ; tide of the street, Department of Justice agents, pri- vate detectives and plain clothes men ewarmed through office buildings y endeavoring to find witnesses of the focident, or any one who could Gescribe events in the immediate vicinity of the explosion just prior to the time It occurred. Blugs and pieces of metal driven | I} rough by the air by the explosion are atill being J, 8, Grant, gon of the Gene sistant Treasurer at the Sub-Treas- ry, has on his desk a slug and a (Continued on Thin! Page.) WIDOW OF BARON STERNBURG TO WED Bogaged to Retired Banker of This City and Will Be Married In France. Announcement the engagement of Baroness Speck Von Bternburg and Adolf Pavenstedt, re tired banker of thts clty, Tho Baroness whoso maiden pamoe was Miss Li!ilar Langham of Kentucky, was th of the former German Ambassador ‘Washington. ‘Pho wedding fs to take place In France at Achachon, the slater, who is the Admira wife ¢ Faramond de last Saturday THE WORLD ‘RESUMES TRADING; | __ was mado to-day of| ! Brother-in-Law Finds Him in Canada—Had No Knowl- edge of the Disaster. nee Telephone to ning World.) HAMILLTO: Ont, Sept. 17.—Exd- ward Fischer, whose warnings of the Wall Street explosion have worried his acquaintances for three weeks, to-day was committed to the Ontario Provincial Asylum, In Hamilton, The logal firm retained by bis brother- naw and which surrendered bim > the Lunacy Commission, assert that Fischer cannot be taken by the New York authoriti Robert A. the brother-in- law who obtained the prompt com- (By Long DI The & Pops, mitting of Fischer to the asylum as 4 mentally unsound person, asserted that Fischer had had no dealings with explosion plotters, but that bis Jiseased mind was in such a highly sensitive condition during the last three weeks that he received a tele- | pathic revelation of the approaching disaster and therefore tried to warn all his friends, THINKS ALL NEW YORK IS TO | BE BLOWN UP, | “All of New York is undermined- iv Ul (OLD KUNPAURANT. erecrnt Hoe Meda Haat Mika vase FISCHER, WHO SENT WARNING OF WAL STREET EXPLOSION, COMMITTED UY TO AN ASYLUM EXPLOSION INQUIRY ORDERED BY COURT Instructs the Grand Jury to De-| termine Whether There was Official Negligence. Exclusive governmental control and supervision of explosives was advocated towlay by Judge William M. Wadhame of the Court of General Sessions, in- structing the regular Grand Jury to be- gin immediately an tvestfgation into the Wall Street explosion disaster. Judge Wadhams ordered the Grana Jury to ascertain if there had been an fastigated or perpetrated crime, or If the exisUng law {8 suMfctont to the elty, or if there had bean nog’ on the part of any offetal or indlvidual charged with sufeguarding the public. He called attention to the aasertion that there was ourrent knowledge that the law was not atrictly enforced. BOMB CLUES SHOWN IN FIVE AUTOPSIES After making an autopsy on five mutilated explosion victima at the Morgue, Dr. Charles H. Norris, Chlet Medical Examiner, said he ed & bomb responsible. He based his| opinion, he declared, on the numerous | small wounds which ied the bod- fea of the victims, wounds, be belleved, were made by astmall scraps ‘The t's all going to be blown up,” Macher] of tech and pleces of stone told his brother-in-law, The man to- — jay committed to the asylum also] ACTOR'S SILK SHIRTS GONE. |bragged to the police that he had ee . en “Jack Dempsey’s sparring part-! 4 woman who described heracif ax |ner," which was absolutely untrue Peary Holt, twonty-o ne at thy Fischer uted to make any siate-|Pourth Avenue Hot Fourth Avenue nent to the newspaper men and he| and 27th Btreet. wag held tn 81.000 dail ag shivided from having to talk.) peur ein? onarged by Hoste Hos — n actor, with entering hia rr (Continued on Second Page.y ies aueerage ne ae Oy clothes and elgars. A man who was sald to have been with the woman when she entered tors Feome has mot yet STOCK EXCHANGE Cast Iron Slugs Found Scattered at Explosion Scene---Actual Size PINE'ST: Si $10,000 REWARD FOR CAPTURE OF BOMB SUSPECTS Mayor Offers Resolution at Board of Estimate—$500 to Reveal Horse Owner, A REWARD of $10,000 was of- fered to-day by tho Roard of Estimate for-the arrest and conviction of the person or Persons implicated in the Wall Street explosion {f it is found the explosion resulted trom a plot, Qnd an additional $500 for infor- mation disclosing ownership of the horse and wagon believed to havo been used to convey the ex- plosives. Mayor Hylan offered the reso- lution for the $10,000 reward and declared much moro will be of- tered if that proves insufficient. President La Guardia of the Board of Aldermen presented the revolution for the $500 reward. In such an emergency as this, Corporation Counsel O'Brien ad- vised tho Board, charter restrio- tions can be disregarded. Mayor Hylan announced the re- ceipt of a letter from Willlam W. Cohen, head of William H. Cohen & Co, of No, 67 Exchange Place, dealers in stocks and bonds. of- fering personally a reward of $1,000 in case the city did not ap- propriate money for @ reward, WOUNDED, DELIVERS BONDS IN HOSPITAL Explosion Victim Who Lost Leg Clung to Securities for Bank- ing House, ne man who lost a leg in the Wall Btrect explosion was carrying a large number of securition for delivery to a Wall Street banking house. Neither his n nor that of the banking ‘evented, but It wa learned that resentative of the n the hos- man made bankers Int pital and there the wou safe delivery of the se —_— TOOK HOME BODY OF THE WRONG BOY | Entered a8 Recomd-Clase Matter Post Office, New ork, N. ie s PRICE THREE CENTS. CITY TO PAY $10,000 REWARD; GRAND JURY STARTS INQUIRY. Scores of Others Injured in Ex- plosion Are in Critical ition, 200 SERIOUSLY HURT. Many Leave for Homes After Being Treated for Minor Cuts and Bruises. Six more victims of the feo: gl explosion in Wall Street died in va- rious hospitals to-day. The complete revised fist of killed and injured now shows thirty- six dead and considerably more than 200 seriously hurt. To-day's victims a follows: GILLIES, H. L. No. 54 Storer Street, Pelham, N. Y.; died at Broad Street Hospital. SMITH, LOUIS K. No. 186 Greenwich Street; died at Volun- teor Hospital, LEIGH, ALEX, No, 537 West 66th Street; died at Volunteer Hospital. MILLER, RAY, address un- known. e WHITE, W. W. 4 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn; die@at Volun- teor Hospital, BISHOP, MARGARET, No, 1040 Park Place, Brooklyn; died at Volunteer Hospital this morning. The complete final list of dead now stands as follows: ARANBARRY, CHARLES, twenty- seven, No, 128 Sherman Avenue, Bronx, clerk, was identified by Anna Stressor, No. 614 Pacific Street, Brooklyn. BISHOP, MAKGARBET, No, 1040 Park Place, Brooklyn, Volunteer Hospital, at 6.40 A, M, to-day from} burns. | DICKINSON, MI8S CAROLYN M. forty, No, 1 Hanover Place, Eim- | burst, L. L—A stenographer em- ployed by George H. Burr & Co,, No, 120 Broadway, Slight wound in right aide of neck, made by slug. Believed | to have died from shock and con- cussion, Body wns identified by hor | brother, Charles Dickinson, No, 14th Street, Richmond Hill. DONAHUB, JOHN, 38, accountant, No, 103 East Mth Street, Brookly 4 to-day in Bellevue Hoapital DRURY, MRS. MARGARET A,, twon- | ty-nine, a widow, No, 182 Ridge- wood Avenue, B-voklyn—A stenog- rapher cioployed by Curtias, Mal- lotprevost & Coit, peneys, No. 30 Broad Street. The left side of her SIX MORE BLAST VICTIMS DIE IN HOSPITALS TC-DAY, BRINGING DEATHS 10 3 MYSTERY WACO S RECONSTRUCTED BYU. EXPERTS Government experts investigating the Wall Strect explosion to-day re- constructed, as far as was possible, the wrecked wagon from plocas col- lected by Government agents and the pollee, They gave the following de- scription; The wagon was about twenty years old, It fad been frequently repaired. Originally it was intended for a butter and egg concern, having a greater width than most wagons to allow for the placing of five cases of exgn aide by side, It had not been In use for a long me, as there gas no grease on the axle. The wagon was originally intended for a team of horses, but had later been remade into # one-horse vehicle, ‘The single shafts are now. Tho firat deadription of the man who drove the red wagon into Wall Street and, according to the state ment, joft it there, was given this afternoon by Miss Rebecca Epatein, & stenographer in the broketage office of Newburger, Hendtrson & Loob, at No, 100 Broadway, Acoording to the story told to the police by Mina Ep- stein, who was knocked: senacieas Dy the blast, she was headed weat on Wall Street after turning the corner of Wall and William and oa she neared the Equitable ‘Trust Company Mullding at 37 Wall Street the explosion occurred "T noticed a reddish sort of wagon with a red flag on the back of It turning the corner of Nassau Street into Wall Street,” Miss Epstein sald, “It came east on wall Mtreet and stopped as I can pemember in front of the Morgan office opposite the Assay building, It was drawn by a medium brown horse and the truck had racks on the alde, My recollee tion in that there were either barrels w boxes on tho truck which seemed to have some plasteror a white powder substance in top, Thera was Also sore white substance spattered on the side of the wagon, There was rope in the back of the wasron ap Parenfly to keep the contents In place, “The driver looked to me like an ordinary lwhoring man of about thirty five or forty years of age, He wore a alouch hat, He needed a shave, It seemed to me He wore overalls, witich were brown and spattered with white, "The driver got off the truck and walked went on Wall Street, toward Broadway.” . Many persons have come forward to-day with statements that they had Sent , ri $ as bIOw' and her bod Sent B. to Morgue as the Pa i bone WAT 88 per body | moon & wawon of the K, I. DuPont de Other Boy Actually Dies in shrapnel wi Mra. | Now pny, manufacturers of Hospital. Drury was identified by her brother, explosives, amor« or things, in tospital William tuasell, No, 409 West 1ith | and about Wrondway shortly betor: the explosion, All speculation aa After a woman who #ald she was an } SRpoeee 4 site aunt of the dead youth had {denttfad v.11, No. 1248 Gerara| the {den ty of thie Wamgn and tts 8 toay at the M gue aa IDE of Batert ion, BG. fractured | 4 by an offical in hops Mag tae hct he ibhaded ti died during afternoon in the |* company's offices tn sey home : Street Hospita t A ‘ Be van pends tw ered that the body | BLLSWORTHY, IKGINALD, No, 64] ay a arte at of the Westbay boy aad Liberty Stroet, West Oran N. JG Mp ye amily wna rallying a hope DTD ee aoainn alge into Ann Street ele inv tite eda | scene of exploalan, died Inst night ae te aaeaen Me asebiod er Hosp na unders Wen went to Use hospital for the lyLANNBERY, BARTHOLOMEW, || (Continued on Pourth age) sotor that it was a motor-vehtole with a trailer which contained casks, as the rwihneeees Lad Discovery of Parts of Mechanism of a Clock Indicates That Explosion Was Deliberately Timed and Planned—Metal Slugs Found on Scene Support Theory. William J. Flynn, chief of the Federal Secret Service, this afterhodn stated it lo be his positive belief that the explosion in Wall Street yestere day which, so far, has cost thirty-six lives, with more than 200 in the fist of injured, and wrecked property to the extent of $2,500,000, was caved by a bomb driven to the scene in the wagon which was blown to pieces. “You can settle your mind og this point,’ he said, “that was a bomb which exploded. The wagon destroyed in front of the U. S. Assay Office carried the bomb, and the driver of it was four blocks away from the scene when the explosion occurred, I can tell no more just now, save that developments during two hours this forenoon convince mé that it was a bomb. | feel sure that within a comparatively short time, perhaps to-morrow, the nature of the explosion and how it occurred will be known.” Chief Flynn, who hurried to this city from Washington immede ately after the disaster, had a conference at the office of J, P. Morgan & Company, after being in consultation for two hours with George W. ae Superintendent of the local detective force of the Department of ustice, The New York County Grand Jury this afternoon added its efforts to those of the several city departments in seeking a solution of the explosion. At 1.30 o'clock, after such facts as are now known, had beéh placed In their hands by Assistant District Attorney Talley, the members of the Grand Jury proceeded to the scene of the disaster to begin their ingt:iry on the spot, ‘The Board of Estimate and Apportionment also took a hand to-day when it appropriated $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons implicated in the explosion. An additional $500 was appropriated for information leading to the establishment of the owner- ship of the horse and red wagon, SLUGS IN MORGAN BANK CEILING. Three steel slugs, cylindrical in shape, the longest measuring four Inches long, found imbedded in the ceiling of offices in the Morgan Bank BuiMling, and a quantity of similar missiles gathered by police from Wall Street, were to-day put under a minute examination by experts of the United States Bureau of Mines in Washington, D. C., who met with Inspector Campbell, head of the local bureau, at Police Headquarters, Tor these experts the slugs proved conclusively that the explosion had been caused by a bomb, Col. B. W. Dunn, head of the U. S. Explosives Commission, who served in France and is now located with headquarters in Washington, said after a study of the fragments, that neither TNT nor picric acid wére used in the explosive as at fipst believed, “It was, I believe, some kind of a mixture,” he said this afternoon. “1 do not know what it was, but I am convinced that it was not TNT nor pieric acid,” John A, Donahue, who expired tagday, was the second Morgan em ployee to die from the explosion, Willlam Joyce was the first. The belief which a majority of the@————-_——___ city oMctals hold, that the explosion in with the view of pam was caused by @ bomb, wan firat en- | "be ald in solving the mystery of pournged by the discovery among the | the exploston’s ortin a. for examin litter in Wall Street of several pleces| After completing autopsies upom of clock mechanism, cogwheels and bodies this afternoon Medical ratehets, such as have almost always | ©*8oulner Norris stated that to one dy he discovered a steel screw, ¢ several others yielded pieces of been used in bombs wet to explode at @ wpecified time, In addition to the testimony borne | metal emo were turned over te by thene pieces of clockwork, addi- |‘? pollee, tlonal evidence is believed to be| MO Prenting, Chairman of thy United States Clearing House, pe. elved a poatcard at his office, Ne, strongly furnished by the numerous pleces of cust tron, broken to almost the same size and woilght, nd [111 Broadway, threatening to blow everywhere about the scene of the} ¥P the Clearing House, Mr, Prentisp ‘osion. There in much to Indicate | "aid the card had arrived in the mall this morning, He said the sender ndeavored to disguise the hand. ig by using a backhand stroke, he entire resources of the Pollop Department were to-day centred upom the explosion, and were not from any | two things In connection with the e&- of the bulldings in the neighborhood. | plosion, One waa the task of identify. ‘The bodies of ali victims of the ex-| ing the borse and wagen which were plasion tave bean gant to the margen | destzuzed in trans of the Amey | that these fragments, as well as the pieces of metal which have been | taken from the dodies of the victims, were part of the bomb, The tron slugs were not newly broken, as by