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Show BHD YOUTH IS THOUGHT DEAD WAGON DRIVER Anarchists Behind Explosive Mail Packages Attempt. Held Responsible BELIEVE DEADLY MISSILE WAS WEIGHTY AFFAIR Pait of 'Death Wagon' Is Found on Ledge at 24th Floor NEW itJRK, Sept. 18. (liy me Associated As-sociated Press). Alexander J. Brall-ovsky, Brall-ovsky, Russian journallyl. who was taken into custody late this afternoon after the police had received an anon-jmnos anon-jmnos letter thut he was seen In the financial district a .short time after the Wall street explorlon Thursday noon, v.'w formally placed under arrest Jus', before midnight on n charge of being an undesirable alien. Me will he turned over to the- department of Justice agents, the poller- said, while a checK Is being made on his movements Brallovsky was seiaed In a small stationery sta-tionery store on Fast Seventh street In the rear of which is a printing shop whore the "ftussky Golos' I Russian Volr-p) described by trie authorities as a radical Russian maguslne Is published pub-lished THltl l w EJUS il M'l"S . The writer of the anonymous letter informed the police that he saw Brail-OVSky Brail-OVSky and three other men talking at the corner of Pine and Nassau efcri eta near the scene of the- explosion abou." twenty minutes after the detonation took place The writer declared the three men seemed to be in a jubilant mood BrailOVaky, police said, admitted being be-ing at the place mentioned but placed hln presence there an auur later than the letter charged lie denied all knowledge of the explosion. He explained ex-plained his presence In the financial district by stating that he wished to dispose of some jewlry boxes there Brallovsky further admitted tho police po-lice said, that he talked to three men there He said he knew only one of them, but the man whom he knew was acquainted with 'he other two. At first he refused absolutely, the police explained, to dlVutge the name Of his companions. "Mj race," he Is quoted as saying, "never divulges the name of another ; person without that person's consent and so I cannot enlighten you." ' MAN OP ED IU IJi Krallovsky, who Is S6 years old. ant xmall In stature, was well dressed, his olce. manner and expreslson giving tho Impression he was a man of education, educa-tion, lie told the police, they say, (hat he was the editor of the "Russky Oo-loa" Oo-loa" H- explained that In his conversation conver-sation vith the three men the question Of soliciting a loan for the purpoee of onstnicthlj S Kusslan people's theatre thea-tre was discussed. Federal Investigators declared they recognized him as the man who presided presid-ed a few days ago at a concert In Madison Madi-son Square Garden glen for the benefit ben-efit of the Kussian children held at Fort YV'adsworth, pending their departure de-parture homeward Ludwig c. A. K. Murtens, unofficial representative here of the soviet republic, was the guest of honor at the concert. The Ku:.iun children sailed for home a week ago RADICAL LITER VTl m Detective James J. Ocgan. long head of the bomb squad. Identified Brailov-sky Brailov-sky as the man who had dingy quarters quar-ters at 133 East Fifteenth street, where the "Russky Golos." orginally was published. The detective said he Went there first in March. 1917 again I In June of that year, and a third time In November, 1919. n one or two occasions, Cegan added, he seized quantities of radirai Literature there ar.i each time found Brullovsny presiding pre-siding over earnest conferences of for- elgner. The police attached importance to the arrest. They rii an effort was i being made to gel Into COIQIQUnlCatlon I with Attorney (General falrm r tonight and notify hitn of Brailovsk v's detention. deten-tion. DRIVER OF WAGON. Only one body found after the explosion ex-plosion remains unidentified tonight It Is of a boy of about nineteen yean. The opinion was expressed that he was the driver of the death wagon," which Is believed to have carried the bomb Into the financial district, and SO investigation Is being made along that line. Medical Rxamlncr Norris declared that a metal fragment found In the i unidentified boy's body "Is clearly a part of the casing of the bomh, or one of the bombs, which caused the destruction and loss of life " SHOT INTO BODY. "One side of this piece of metal," Norris explained. is slightly convex and highly polished- Further proof that It was a part of a bomb's easing j Is furnished by the density and thick j metal. Very heavy the fragment Is (Continued on Page Two.) Dead Youth Is Thought Dead Wagon Driver (Continued From Face one ) about an inch and a half long This, entered the back of the boy and imbedded im-bedded Itself In t'u QtiUSCleS very close to the front of the abdomen. "It would be absurd to think this piece of metal could have been struck a fragment from the original bomb .ind projected With force sufficient to carry it almost through the youth's abdomen. The bomb caging, together togeth-er with all the steel, iron and even i Splinters of wood we found In the1 bodies of the dead and Injured, h ive been carefully labelled, placed In envelopes en-velopes and turned over to the police depa rtment, 1 Norrls, who hus charge of the autopsies autop-sies on the bodies of those who died as a result of the explosion, declared1 that in every case except n- death was caused directly by "punctures o penetrating wounds. ' that fractured bones had caused hemorrhages If the missiles did not reach a vital spot The exception was that of a woman who, Dr. Norrls said. tvas clearly burned to death. Her body was found nearest the spot where the explosion occurred. NEW YuRK. Sept. 18. Ry The Associated As-sociated Press.) Investigation of the explosion In Wall street Thursday noon which cost 3a lives and did property damage exceeding 11,000,000 broadly divided itself tonight Into two separate separ-ate channels. firm In their belief that the dis-1 aster was caused by a time bomb planted by a band of anarchists, who Vttt also Implicated In the mall bomb lots of J une, 1019. dr pa rtment of Ju3-tlce Ju3-tlce Investigators headed by Attorney General Rainier and William J- Kynn,' chief of the department s bureau of ln- estigatlon, have centered thcii efforts In seekin-; the Identity of the person or peiaons who deposited fl radical circulars cir-culars in a mail box near the scene j.ist a few minutes before the explosion explos-ion These circulars, prznted cn cheap puper innd signed "American anarchist anarch-ist fighters" threatened "sure death for all of you" unless the "political p Isoners" weic freed. Tlu bear a s'.rlking likeness t.'hirf Flynn pointed out. to those found In "be Investigations Investiga-tions of June. 1919 Meanw hile police nvestlgatora were concentrating then-attention then-attention on trying to establish the identity of the driver of the dllapi- lated wagon, whlcb was abandoned rear the J P Morgan and company bunk a few minutes before the cxplos- on and which is believed to have con- ined the Infernal machine Experts In the police bomb squad.' . bo have examined the pieced together togeth-er metal fragments belieed to have been part of the bomb, declared the deadly missile apparently weighed about ".0u pounds 200 of wheh were t he explos. n eji Pepartmcnt of Justice i gen Is late to-;.i to-;.i arrested an Italian stowaway on LI , outgoing steamship Cedrlc on su-' bpicion that he max have been Implicated Impli-cated In the plot. He ';as taken to department headquarters, questioned and later released, agents stating he jhad satisfactorily established his in-! in-! nocence. The only other man licing detained in conne. tion with tile plosion is i ilwln I'ischer, lawyer. -iilo r t 1 1 1 r i .m I love of the French high i .nimission I i re, who sent poalcard warnings of the dlsosler to friends In the financial district. He was turned o- or to the; police of Hamilton, Ontario, yesterday by his brother-in-law, Robert Pope, who said he was acting queerly I Lecher was later adjudged mentallj l lr. competent by a lunacy commission, and temporarily confined In the Hamilton Ham-ilton Jail NOTICE BY TELEPATHY. Iocal police Invasttgtttors have been 'sont to question him. and if he has 'direct knowledge of the explosion, to bring him bach io X'-w York If possl-b'e. possl-b'e. Fischer clain:s to have received notice of the Impending disaster by I' mental telepathy " Chief Flynn expressed ex-pressed the Opinion that Fischer Is in. no way connected with tho explosion Itself I'ollce department officials admitted admit-ted tonight they had uncovered nothing noth-ing new during the day which would aid in solving the mystery No one has been found, they said, who knew the owner of the horse and wagon which' were blown to pieces by the blast. line blacksmith', after b-inK shown t lie shoes and hoof.s of the dead horse, I told the police he believed he minht throw light on the Identity of the horse and Its owner At noon ho went to look at the badly dismembered car-: cass. but when he left the police said "there was nothing new to report." P1ECK HIGH ON 1.1 IX, E. Heads of the ailous deteclve bu- reaus assigned to tbi I lS conferred today w tb Chief Inspector William j Lahey. but iippurently this conference I added nothing to the day's development. develop-ment. A piece of wood. flvS by three! inches, believed to be paart of the "death wagon," was found by a department de-partment of Justice operative today on the window ledge of the twenty-fourth floor of the Hankers' Trust building at 14 Wall street.. j i-u-i faIll I , |
