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Show Plenty of Clues Found To Work On Chief Flynn Says; Hopeful of Arrests 1 1 Many of Men and Women Injured in Bomb Explosion to Be Maimed for Life; Reward of More Than $25,000 Offered for Arrest of Guilty; Radical I Literature in Mail Boxes. "K Ykk. Sepi Is ( onfidencc thai Big "American anarch- tat fighter," who are Delieved now to have caused ihe disastrous x bomb explosion in Wall street last Thursday, would be brought to justice, w;is expressed today l. William .1 Flynn, chief f the bureau j nt' investigation t the department of justice Chief EJlynn, who has charge "f the Eederal investigation under the personal supervision of Attorney General Palmer, said he was certain from the similarity t circulars found in a mail box near Wall street at 1 tie time of the explosion to those found at the scene H nf various bomb explosions in June1, 1D1D, that the same crowd of H terrorists was responsible tor both outrages H SUICIDE TIPS HAND "We had solved the mysteries of last year's bombs, but we're frustrated in bringing the criminals tn justice when Alfredo Salesedo, whom we were detaining in the New York office of the bureau. H jumped from a fourteenth story window during the night and com- H nutted suicide ' said FUnu. "That tipped our hand and the crowd , got sut'eh out of the ciiuntry before we could nab them. "Now in this ease we have mu-'li more to work on at the start. The similarity of the circulars makes available all our knowledge of l the gang who committed the outrages lasl year. We i ven established the identity of one anarchisl who was killed by Ins own bomb in last year's explosion with much less evidence than we have in the present MANY CLUES FOUND "Torn hits of pink paper were the only evidence we had last year. Now we have whole circulars dropped into a mail box, presum-ably presum-ably by the man who sel ff the bomb, half an hour after a lettei carrier had emptied th.-box. In addition there are the horse and the !j broken bits of the wagon on which the bomb was placed " j NT.W YORK, Sept. 18. Convinced that the explosion which snuffed out the lives of 35 persons and Injured nearly 30 others in Wall street Thurs-I Thurs-I day noon was deliberately planned by i radicals, officials of the department 'of Justice, headed by Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer himself, today spread a dragnet OVQt the entire country in ef-i forts to trap its originators. Spurred on bv rewards aggregating! $25,500 offered by the city admlnlstra-1 Hon and an accident Insurance com-, pany. police, ex-servlec men and oitl- zens lent their efforts to tho federal: agents DISASTER FIENDISH PLOT Department of Justice officials were certain that the disaster was the pre-j meditated and fiendish plot of radicals, bent on defiance of law and organised , government. William J. Flynn., head !uf the bureau of Investigations of the department of Justice. was chief i spokesman for this general opinion Attorney General Palmer corroborat-ed corroborat-ed the statement. Chief Flynn lased his opinion on thf finding of radical literature in post-office post-office boxes near tho scone of the tragedy soon after It occurred. II" pointed out a peculiar slmiharlty be-, tween the nature of this llteraturo and that found In connection with the terrorists ter-rorists plota In June 101?- Similar expressions ex-pressions and similar mlspelled words characerlzed the literature found yesterday yes-terday and In 1519. ho said. ne difference between tho two. however, was that the literature founn last year was signed "the anarchistic flKhters" while that found yesterday was signed American anarchistic fighters." "You can see." Chief Flynn remarked, remark-ed, "they have simply added American' Ameri-can' to their title now." LOOKING FOB DRIVER Primary importance In todav's search was attached to finding the driver of tho dilapidated, rusty, red v.agon the fragments of which were I found nearest the bomb . rater. Colonel William M. Mead, chief clerk for J. P. Morgan and company, declared tho farrier who shod the horse that drew the death wagon had been found and that he was reasonably reason-ably sure of the owner s identity. Peculiar Pe-culiar markings on the dead horse s shoes. It was said, aiding in tracing the blacksmith Department of justice officials early today had neither confirmed nor denied de-nied this report, but Attorney General I Palmer said finding the animal's owner own-er was of paranynunt Importance. M V IN HOSPIT M S There was still about 160 Injured being ared for In hospitals today. many of whom were said to be In a serious condition. S-cor- of those who wll recover will be maimed for life, it was said. Department of justice officials. It was said, attached . relatively little importance to the detention of Edward Fischer, at Hamilton, Ont , w ho yes-terday yes-terday admitted to Canadian authorities authori-ties having sent warnings of tho disaster dis-aster to several friends here However. Attorney General Palmer sal.l he would direct that Fischer In.- thoroughly thorough-ly examined. It was also expected that those who received Fischer's warning mlsslvei would be questioned. Special Kuards were still kept todav around all government buildings here, thH Morgan bank anil the homes of numerous prominent financiers. Attorney Attor-ney General Palmer suld this same precaution was In vogue throughout the country. |