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Show BOMB SUSPECT UNDER ARREST PSEUDO SECRET SERVICE MAN TRAILED BY SUPPOSED CONFEDERATE CON-FEDERATE AND NABBED Singular Story of Plots and Counterplots Counter-plots Revealed. Suspect Trailed All Over World and Finally Caught in Russia Warsaw. Plots and counterplots, reading like a chapter from fiction, were involved in the search for clews in many parts of Europe by American secret service agents which resulted In the arrest here Saturday of Wolfe Lindenfeld, alias William Linde, in connection with the Wall street bomb explosion in New York In September, 1920. Lindenfeld has fully confessed the authorities say, naming the ringleaders ring-leaders in the plot which, he declared, was aimed at J. P. Morgan, the infernal infer-nal machine exploding prematurely. According to Sylvester Cosgrove and Paul Altendorf, who trailed Lindenfeld the suspect has named five principals In the plot, now in Europe, who received re-ceived $30,000 from the Moscow Third Internationale through New York communists. com-munists. Lindenfeld has declared his willingness to return to New York as soon as ossible and tufn state's evidence. evi-dence. The Polish authorities say he was exposed in 1906 as a Russian see-ret see-ret agent and fled to America at that time, returning to Europe last spring. Altendorf came to Europe in February Febru-ary last, while Lindenfeld came over in March. During the summer Altendorf, Alten-dorf, living in various communistic centers, obtained a clew which led him to seek Lindenfeld's acquaintance. As a result, Cosgrove arrived in Warsaw two months ago, posing as having connections con-nections witb communist groups in America, and was Introduced to Lindenfeld Lin-denfeld by Altendorf. After establishing estab-lishing his acquaintance, Cosgrove suggested sug-gested to Lindenfeld a scheme whereby by giving information in regard to the Wall street explosion, he could receive a large share of the rewards offered for the arrest of the plotters, without risk to himself. Polish operatives shadowed Linden-field Linden-field and the Poles claim that while Lln-denfield Lln-denfield was pretending to play to Cos-grove's Cos-grove's hands he was at the same time double crossing the Americans. Clews developed while trailing Lindenfeld led the police agents to arrest a number of communists who are alleged to be spies working against the interests of (Poland. |