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mult | we) EXTRA VOL. LXII. NO. 21,925—DAILY. Copyright (New York rere ae Press ‘Poblishing Company, 19: BOMB PLOT SUSPECT'S WIFE SAYS HE 1 RRESPONSBLE © Calls Him fnew Incurable Liar and; MAN WHOSE STORY Knows He Had Nothing | GIVES NEW VERSION to DoW ith Explosion. OF BOMB MYSTERY Burns Lindenfeld Will Then Be Given to Police. Says s Evidence Against The testimony of the wife of Wolfe | Lindenfeld or William Linde, the man who is under arrest in Warsaw Poland, after making 4 statement purperting to reveal all the secrets | m connection with the Wall Street bomb explosion a year ago last Sep- added to-day to that of tember, Lindenfeld'’s ass: presponsibility 1B 14s corroboration sufficient to was lates us to his gen- | and uselessness ns asserts, however, that he make Lindenfeld’s story of the bomb ‘ plot irrespective of the up" “stand man's unreliability. The wife of Lindenfeld was found today at he some, Ni 10 West 148th Btreet, with their two children, > Fabian, five Ruth, thirteen, She said Lindenfeld was an incurable lia WOLFE LINDENFELD, and altogether irresponsible. Married WILLIAM L| to him fourteen ye with him only five. for Europe last February, she said he oh her he was going over to bring his father and mother from Warsaw. She did not know he had anything to do with the Burns Agency or the De parment of Justice, and would on) ‘wien te suiet ANONYMOUS THREAT OF BOMB; EXTRA | GUARDS IN WALL ST. Blow up” Near Stock Warning of “ Exchange Not Taken Seriously have believed him if be ad said so. He certainly had not much money at by Police. the time of the Wall Street explosion, Twenty extra uniformed policemen and @ number of detectives were as- | signed to the financial district to-day | “T bape that Fabian does not grow | ‘because of a threat of an explosion up to be like him,” she said, “But 1 gent anonymously to Charles T, Mor- know he had nothing to do with the Pa trent ‘weverai explosion, He hasn't the nerve take such a risk, Ue isn't an An- archist, but he would wave a red flag all day if there was any money in it for him.” William J, Burns, chief of the In- vestigation Bureau of the Department of Justice, armounced to-day at the New York office of the bureau in the Park Row Building that he had al- she said, because he allowed the fam- ily to be dispossessed from their Sec- ond Avenue home at about that time. gan of No Broad days ago At Police Headquarters it was as- serted that the warning that “every- \thing within five block of the Stock Exchange was to be blown up” was not taken seriously, but that the presence of the extra men was a pre- caution against a panic which might SEEK EX-EMPLOYEE IN CAPITOL THEATRE HOLD-UP OF $10,000 ee Robbery Made in Sight Many Whose Eyes Were Glued on Screen. RECEIPTS. Manager, Auditor and Waich- man Tied and Locked in Closet with Girl. of TOOK DAY'S The boldness and thorougiiness of the three-man $10,000 hold-up of the suditor, house manager and two others of the staff of the Capitol ‘The- atre, at 51st Street and Broadway, at 10.80 o'clock last night resulted to-day in more police activity than has been devoted to. a single robbery job 'n years. Following so closely on the Greenpoint Street hold-up of two bank messengers who were robbed of $17,676, the Capitol Theatre affair gave Police Headquarters a shock. Detectives have closely questioned every employee of the Capitol and looking for former employees. John Matthews, the house manager, said the fist of former employees is sinall as there are few changes in the use staff and the number of em- joyees who know that money |* kept the theatre only on Sunday nights and where it is kept and how it ts handled is limited. Neither Mr. Matthe coner, the auditor; a ticket selle are Joi. Pearl Courtright, nor Thomas Maher, a watchman, who were the direct! victims, ever saw any of the three bandits before the hold-up, The armed visitors were young men—one not over twenty-two years old—and quite nervous. It was their obvious nervousness that helped in the rob- bery because the theatre people were, afraid to make a move which might. scare one of the thieves to the point of pressing his finger on the trigge- of his revolver. At the hour of the hold-up the west sidewalk of Broadway at Sist Str was packed from ing line with slowly moving pedes- trians. Every seat in the great audi- torium was occupied and there was a line of standees in the rear of the first balcony. Some of these peop!e, had they taken their attention ‘rom the stage and looked through a win- NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, Fal-| he curb to build-| yin “EXTRA WORLD 1921, Entered 1s Second-Cines Matter Fost Oftice, New Yorks N, ures in Dail Fight FRANCE ACCEPTS} CMe? Pia U.S. NAVAL RATIO OF 175,000 TONS Premier Mr Over Ratification of Treaty Pring Authorizes Harvey to Cable De- sion to Washington. DOUBTFUL. PARIS STILI Secretary Hughes's Advices Are That French Delegates Have Orders to Agree. LONDON, Press). Dec. 19 (Associated France will accept the orig- inal nava! ratio laid down by Segre tary Hughes at the Washington Con Premier Briand informed George Harvey, the American Am- bassador, at their meeting last night. He authorized the Ambassador to notify the America Government to that effect. The EAMON DE VALERA RICHARD GROKER IS VERY ILL EE | CABLES TO FREND At Dublin His Condition Was Reported Late To-Day Improved. ference, original proposals concerning capital ship tonnage were as follows nited States, 5 Japan, Pr ; England, 5: Italy, 1.68. ance, 1.70; Although Premier Briand’s author- which has already been con- in ization, yed to the French Washington and the Department, makes submarines, there {s reason to believy delegation Ameritan S no mention of ___ MicHaeL - COLLINS. that the French proposals regarding undersea craft were discussed by M, DUBLIN, Di 19 (Associated Briand and Ambassador Harvey, It Press)—-Richard Cvoker, former is hinted that the French may have pammany Hall chieftain. whose seri- ——— ! ———2 fo DE VALERA FIGHTS gE TO BEAT TREATY; GRIFFITH PLEADS HONOR IS AT STAKE \President Predicts Domination by England and Another War—Col- lins Argues Erin Gets Same Right as Canada to Envoy in U.S. DUBLIN, Dee. 19 (Associated Press).—Under the status granted het by the pending agreement, Ireland would have the same right as Canada, to send an Ambassador to Washington, declared Michael Collins, Sint Fein Finance Mingster, in arguing for ratification of the Anglo-lrish Treaty before the publicéession of the Dail Eireann this afternoon, Collins, long-time leader of the Republican, Army, made the princi- pal argument of the afternoon for the treaty he signed in London, Ar- thur Griffith, who with him is making @ determined figgt for ratification, . presented his argument upon moving adoption of the treaty at the morn-— ing session, declaring it safeguarded all the interests of Ireland Eamon De Valera, the Republican President, fighting for rejection, denounced the treaty as “subversion of the republic.” | “This treaty,” declared Collins, in denying charges that he had been ae into signing the document, “was not signed under the personal intimidation of any delegate.” The people, he said, did not understand the immense powers the treaty had given the Irish people. Irish aspira+ tions were satistied with security and freedom, and the remova! of the | Re ee eee cetation Gus Hinesa (hae! bead! eenoriaas was'| British Army was proof that the national principles had been established, put upon Premier Briand’s interview very much better to-day, according he argued. | with Ambassador Harvey in oficial jo private advices received here from Mr. Collins's argument that the Constitutional status of Ireland under } circles here this forenoon was that ji, ome in jon Custle, He 5 : ; j France's acceptance of the Amerean |) eee eons taal |the agreement was exactly the same as that of Canada and South Africa 4 vad been sutfering from a wery bad , point of view as to naval tonnage was "1" °l we and that Ireland had no less a right than Canada to send an Ambassador 4 an acceptance “in principle” only so C0ld, it was sa ea a ‘4 far as capital ships were concerned, PRYOR, Okla., Dec. 19—A cable- | to the United States was greeted with cheers. i and that it did not alter the French gram stating that Richard Croker, | insistence upon adequate allowances former Tammany chieftain of New| of submarines and cruisers. York, was very ill, sent by his wife, It was also declared that, so far Mrs. Beulah Benton Edmondson as the official advices received nere’ Croker, has summoned Bruce Garrett, showed, no definite ragio had yet been © local citizen, hurriedly to Ireland, |Homes in oe “Gold | Coast” Among Those Invade 1 by Police Crusaders. ——————____________4 PARLIAMENT TAKES RECESS TILL JAN. 31 “*: “What | am going to say will make: Referring to cablegrams he had re-, ceived from America, Mr. Collins: Sats ee a ee eee ee ee oered iin caaeiat Siias S be started by an exploding automo- bile tire or other loud noise in the neighborhood. oe “RINGER” SCARE . AT NEW ORLEANS dow, could have seen in the lighted auditor's office across a narrow court on the third floor the hold-up men at work, Mr, Faleoner at 10.80 o'clock had brought from the box office at the ready started proceedings to bring back to this country Wolfe Linden- feld or Willlam Linde, who is under arrest in Warsaw after having made a confession of all that he knows about the Wall Street explosion of Sept. 16, 1920. main entrance the receipts of the af- “we will bring him back," suid ean jternoon and evening performances, Mr. Burns, “and as many of those! Pretender, Backed Heavily, Runs | 1t ‘ ie custo, ot ine management nplicated by his statements a ith Sar, afi | to deposit the receipts each night in eae Bee there can lay hands} Away With “I pond Race \the Pacific Bank at 49th Street on. When we have them here we will To-Day, and Seventh Avenue, but the bank is| * work up the case against them and/ NEW ORLBANS, Dec. 19. closed Sunday nights and the safe in when it is complete turn them and] tender, winner of the second race at| the auditor’s office has served as a the case over to the police of New| Jefferson Park race track here to- | depository. York City, in whose jurisdiction the}day, was thought to be a “ringer."| The money amounting to The horse was backed down from to 1 down to eight. Horeb was the favorite but when the horses broke from the barrier Pretender went to the front and was never headed, Pretender was entered under crime was committed.” Those who talked with Mr. Burns to-day found his far less positive in nis assertions that the Wall Street “was cleared up” than ne (Continued on Second Page.) Eas NEW “PEACE” $1 WILL SOON BE IN explosion the (Continued on Second Page.) name of W. M. Sheed and showed a Md [startling reversal of form, In his PUBLIC'S POCKETS |last four starts the horse finished 5 TWO MEN KILLED away back. On his last appearance | Coinage of From 700,000 to 800,- | IN PACKERS’ STRIKE here he was quoted at 100 to 1. a rr HELD As SLAYER OF HUSBAND. Deputy Sheriff and Another Die in| srs. rose Lech, forty-two, of No, 131 Gun Battle Over Sioux East 43d Street, was held without bat! City Walkout. | to-day by Magistrate Tobias for an ex- amination Thursday, by which time t CITY, Ia., Deo. 19.—Deputy | 000 of Silver Pieces to Begin Before 1922. WASHINGTON, Dee. 19. The design for a new "Peace dollar was approved by President Harding to-day. Coinage will Grand Jury is expected to return e1oux indietment charging ther with tne mur-| begin in a few days, and between osteitt Lewis R. Jones, twenty-two, cen ee be ue Pene Joseph. Accord 700,000 and 800,000 of the new sil- r » the police Mrs, ee ¢ Sheriff W. H. Jones, and Hes- ‘aled, a strike sympathizer, were fy wounded in a gun fight early Whey died in a hempital, ver pieces will be turned out of the Philadelphia Mint before the new year, Director of the Mint encouLeed) Fa *. igen aes husband Saturday night when he c: home intoxicated. She did not know her husband ‘+had died until she was ar- raigned in court. She fell in « taint when ae dae vf Pevicd | he about | : Sa ee British Government Decides Not | ¢ unpopular in America for the rest! j accepted by France, it became known to-day, Mrs. Croker’ CHICAGO, Ml, Dec, 19.—Pollce she. | i ji 1 | Tn otielel quarters to-day it was sald is a daughter of Mr. ond Mis MoS ; ; to Keep Members Waiting on | ey | am going to hide noth-; | that France maintains she is entitled Edmondso» of this city oe slhieee naa ae se ee Dail Decision. [eae at shiok for the sake of, —e ' an early iy -day, | to a substantial submarine tonnage bY) arog Nathan of No. 111 Broad- | r to-das,! LONDON, Dec. 19 (Associatea| “MOroan popularity, | virtue of the fact that she is weak Im’ Wo") Groker's attorney, said ‘ie ei sane ang SiEON Ine ts owN-| pragg),—Tho British Parliament will “I Fecelved a cablegram trom Sun | other branches of naval equipment.|y0a'not received word of hie oevions |i, {Mo ail Seven hundred and) Prorogued this afternoon until Jaa.| Francisco saying: | tt was also indicated that France will! iiness, He said Mr. Croker was fillat ‘the "Goll Gocst’ frocd Penct| 31, It was announced this afternoon ‘Stand fast, We will send you insist upon a reasonable number of | Wien he sailed for Ireland ere old Coast.” faced Police} ),) xusten Chamberlain, Government, # million dollars a month.’ : Judges "My reply to this was to send half ernisers for her coast defense. France desires to do everything she can to hasten naval accord at Wash-, ington, and to contribute her share In ‘tne sacrifices being made. She must, however, it was said, do all fj her power to make America undefitand her vital necessity for submarines and, crvisera. Minister of Marine Guisthau was quoted as saying that Premler Briana hing London had expressed »pt the Amert- |ean views concerning the limitation ‘of capital ship tonnage, but that no (Continued on Fourth Page.) -|CONEY ISLAND SEAL NEW NAME FOR | “RACCOON COATS” A smart trim little figure wrapped from ears to toes In a shaggy raccoon coat was “snap- ping out’ briskly toward the At- lantic Avenue station In Brooklyn | this morning. A rose-colored | toque with fur trimmings, just permitte’ to show a sparkling pair of blue eves, an uptilted nose and ruddy cheeks. Two youths at the | corner noted her a8 she passed. | “Pipe,’ said one, “the gal in the | Coney Island seal.” ‘The giri gave her raccoon an extra swish and was lost in the subway kiosic, Political friends of Richard Croker ai Tammany Hall expressed keen re- gret to-day when informed that he was very ill In Ireland, Neither friends in Orders of Police Chief Fitzmorris turned every Chicago policeman Into a Carrie Nation, "Clean up your beat or your job is gone,” the Chict this city’ nor Howard Croker, one of | ordered. his three children by his first wife,| Harry W. Mager, former United with whom he engaged in litigation| States Collector of Internal Revenue involving property worth $2,000,000, | for the Chicago district, was one of had received word of his condition the last to be arrested. Mager was Mr. Croker, who is eighty years|Seized in an apartment. Police said a old, sailed from New York lust July | Woman in the apartment turned over for Ireland, where he owned exten- | $500 worth of liquor Mager gave her sive estates. Before leaving, he ex- |t© keep for him. pressed forgiveness toward his chil-|_ Search warrants were not used in dren, whom he previously had de-|T@!4* on homes, The police refused nounced as Ingrates, after they had | listen to pleas of “sanctity of the tried to p him incompetent to| me” when invasions were made, manage his own aft The Court| Chicase. long known as the “Oasis hela him competent, after a legai|°* America.” was squeezed dry to- fight in which the aged politician hag |4#% Tw hundred saloons had been closed. Owners of others put pad- |locks in doors in disgust, Following | the ruid on the Casino Club, most ex- displayed his old aggressiv —_—_— RACING RESULTS. clusive in Chicago, other clubs poured -—— out their lockers, Hotels posted no- NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. {tices to guests in which they reaf- FIRST i ACE Sila firmed belicf in the Eighteenth 4 to érodon,. thirt | Amendment ‘it ts, Noa punters Kedgewlck, "All those arrested were booked on SBCOND RACE--Six furlonga.—Pre- Charges of violating the Illinois Search | 5s to l and 3 to 1, frat, Horeb, and Seizure Act, sald to be the mout ond; Black Bay. third, ‘Time ¢ in the country, Non-Starters—Prin Lou, ; 1 ' ‘oom, Bronco Billy and Horry Hudder. more exciust he place raided the better 1 like it," said Chieg (Other racing news Cy page 10.) Fitamorris, uy have my own pail “ abou Prohibition, but law is THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREA F See ee oliay Buildings Esch "Park ign to clean up Chicago ole "y i 85, closely a series of murders “4 guid to have beer shine crazed men, cominitted by moon. ernest anaes saeashideieuanasalcsnannamnon leader in the House of Commons. The original understanding was that pro- rogution should not take place until! the Dail Anglo-Irish treaty, Explaining the earher prorogation, Mr, Chamberlain said the Government debate in the Dail would continue un- King George's message proroguing Parliament said his majesty had “pecetved with deep satisfaction the assurance of your approval of the articles of lrish agreement and of our readiness to give effect to its provisions.” Alluding to ratification of the Irish treaty by Parliament in adopting the reply to the address from the throne, the King said he prayed that “this agreement will speedily accomplish \complete reconciliation of the people Jof Great Britain and Ireland.” Eireann had acted on the/ | million and send « thoysand men fully equipped. | “L veceived another cablegram from. ‘4 branch of the American Association tor Recognition of the Irish Repub | Uc, reading: had expected to have the result o¢ “Don't weaken now; stand the Dublin discussion in hand to-day, with De Valera.’ but it now appeared possible that the “Well, let that branch come over and stand with both of us.” (Laugh- til Saturday, and it was not desirable | ter.) to keep Parliament sitting to awa't| The Minister of Finance declared: the result, jthat if all concerned had taken 4 stand for recognition of the Republiz \as @ prelude to the conference in London the members of the Dail should have said so tn advance, “and there would have been no confer ence.” Speaking of the economtc penetra ~ tion of Ireland by England, Mr. Co! lina said: ‘That is a thing we must stop i¢ Gaelic civilization ts to survive—and that ts what the treaty stops." He would not, he said, refer to the {document Mr. ide ines Lethon De Valera had pre- NOWINATED 48 CUSTOMS ap.|Sented as an alternative proposal, ad PRAISERS, [he was not a man to take advantage | ™ Dee. 19,—Among the nt to-day to the Senate were the following: To be assistant appralsers of mer- handise Custom District No. 10, headquarters New York: Irving H. lum of Manhattan, John J. Reed of Kings County, William H. Sayers, Kings County. Alfred B, Simonds ‘ @ronx County, 4 pe of anybody, as the President wouit agree. President De Valera inter4 rupted to remark: “You stand with the highest.” Mr. Collins said he stood by the decision of the Dail not to coerce’ Northeastern Ireland, and that igs framing the treaty he had desired, above all, to insure the good will + ee SO eT oe See