Show III I 0 r I F. F 4 d T 1 I J i F 1 x f E I S. S 6 i a v A I II L 2 L. L Sf T- T TB rEi II f B K Kr 4 tf O. O VI x B. B r S U 4 S.- S. S s t Po E C.- C. t 0 T I II I t I I. I J f 4 D 1 F. F Ie f. f ir t E EVV GERMAN RAN RANt OFF OFF-ER UND 7 OD TO BE t BASED ON TERMS OF FRENCH DEMAND T MAN A AS of Insurance Concerns Concern's Legal Department Department De De- De- De t Picks Tito Ligi From 6 Prisoners S SCRANTON CRANTON Pa April 23 O Positive identification of Tito THo Ligi arrested here last Tuesday on sus suspicion of complicity complicity complicity com com- in the Wall Vall street explosion explosion sion slon last Jast September was made here today by Thomas J J. J Smith of Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brool- lyn employed In the tho legal department of an insurance company having of offices of- of flees in Ute tle New York financial I district Smith picked out Ligi fr from m a lino line I of ot six prisoners as the man ho had seen arguing with the driver of the death wagon shortly before the ex explosion ex- ex He Ho later told newspaper men that a few moments after alter the blast ho he he saw rushing along Cedar street tr tn t linear ar Nassau st street et and nd Broadway Broad- Broad way wa two companiOns companiOns' td fd hurry out of ot the neighborhood d. d Smith who formerly was a lieutenant lieuten lieuten- lieutenant ant in the New York police department department department depart depart- ment assigned to investigate te Incendiary incendiary ary fires said he was walking in Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet Wallstreet street toward Broad a few minutes before the explosion DESCRIBES WAGON At t about abou t 11 1155 55 a. a m. m he said he was approaching the banking house of J. J P. P Morgan l Co when he saw sawa a dilapidated wagon with red and black striped wheels In front of ot the United States assay office Inside the wagon partly covered with newspapers newspapers newspapers pers were two barrels and two boxes about two or thre feet square squarer I thought it was a junk wagon he said My l attention was first called to it when I noticed two men standing near the horses horse's head ing I crossed the street expecting to see see- seea a fight One of the men was about 5 f feet et 6 Inches tall roughly dressed and of stocky build DESCRIPTION FITS Turning to Ra Raymond mond Clark foreman on a construction job Jn in the vicinity of ot the explosion Smith asked if that description fitted the man that Clark Cla l had seen shortly after the blast Clark who also went to Scranton today to 10 see if t he could recognize LI Ligi I but hut who failed to do so admitted that the thee general description fitted the tho man w wa who whoa a few moments after the explosion rushed u up to him and shouted My fy God m my horse has been killed Smith said the other man standing standing- by the wagon was taller taUer and ana better dressed This man whom he lie Memo identified identified iden iden- tilled as was wrangling he said w lh the tho smaller man apparently apparent apparent- ly trying to induce him to leave the 01 neighborhood STOPPED BY RUSH The shorter man Smith added apparently did not want to go I thought hey were going to fight and stayed stared around round a moment but there was WaR no fight and I went on turning up Nassau street Just after I had passed the corner corner corner cor cor- ner of Nassau assa 1 and Cedar streets I heard the explosion I turned to go goback goback goback back to Wall street but was stopped by the rush the tho rush of ot people fleeing up Nassau Nassau Nassau Nas Nas- sau street Running b by me in the crowd I saw three men going westward In Cedar street toward Broadway and andone andone andone one of ot them was tho the man I had seen wrangling with the wagon driver Neit Neither Neller er of ot the two men with him however was the driver RECOGNIZES VOICE One of ot LIgis LIgi's companions was an Italian about 5 feet teet C G inches fairly well wen built The other also appeared to bean bean be bo boan an Italian and was about 5 feet 6 He had a stubby black mustache The Theman Theman Theman man who had been with the driver was urging these two men alongI along I noticed that tho the voice oleo was the same as that of ot the man I had heard wrangling with the wagon driver and when I looked It it was the same mam mans Confronting Ligi this afternoon Smith again made a test of ot the prisoners prisoner's pris pris- oner's voice volee When Ligi denied he had ever seen Smith the insurance Continued on pa page e 7 I SINGLES OUT Continued from P page Se 1 man declared the voice apparently was the same he had heard both be before before before be- be fore the explosion and a few minutes after Ligi is being held in bail ball here for appearance before a fedI federal federal fed fed- eral court in Harrisburg May 2 2 on a I charge of evading the draft of men in the war I hate hato them all nil Damn them The police regard reg-ard the letter as In Incoherent Incoherent incoherent In- In coherent and are not disposed to take the confession at its face value until the they have investigated but they at attach attach attach at- at tach great serf seriousness to too it and arc aro at work work on all its angles 1 I J 1 |