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Show POLICE QUIZ BOMB WARNING SENDER I) G 4 9 C 1 RATES TO CONFERENCE PROTESTED j POSTCARD TELLS I OF ATTEMPT ON j CUSTDMSHOUSE H 'Though Believed to Be Fake, Guard Is Thrown Around N. Y. Building Xj PRISONER FROM CANADA 1 TALKS OF UNSEEN POWERS Swarms of Reporters and j '-Movie" Men Laugh at His j Queer Actions I NEW YORK, Sept. 20. A postcard warning th:it an attempt would he made tomorrow to Mow up the customs cus-toms house after tin- Wull street explosion ex-plosion last Thursday, was received :! (he mull today by William B. Edwards, collector of Internal revenue for this uistrict. Thin postcard signed 'a citizen.' was turned over to the custodian of the building by Mr Edwards, who also notified Postmaster Thomas G. Pat-H Pat-H ton. The department of justice, too. I was Informed of receipt of the postcard. post-card. NOT TAKEK SI RIOl SL1 The warning sitld that the customs house, already under heavj guard, was to be blown up nt 2 p. m. Mr Hd-vavdl Hd-vavdl said that a preliminary Investigation Investi-gation haJ allowed no evidence of n Plot and he was Inclined to repaid the warning as a hoax. A few minute hi fore the warning postcard had been received by "Big mil'- Edwards, who la a former Princeton Prince-ton fool ball star, Bdwfn P Flschel , ex-tennls player who sent warnings of the first explosion on the strength ol an alleged telepathic Up " had declared de-clared at police headquarters on his arrival here fiom Canada that "more will huppen In the future." "Unseen powers had communicated tha to me." he said st SPEC! At. i s QJ7EEKL1 Fischbr, after laughing with swarm of reporters and photographers while posing for news "movies," breakfasted break-fasted tt S lunch room after which he washed his face with a. glass of water. He stuffed Into his pocket three cigars that he picked up from the Grand Central floor, chuckling as ha did so ami explaining that he did not Bmoke but ills friends did." ":i ii posing for camera men he was asked to remove his hat. Have a heart," he cried " I ipn ' ed talk. ii- said, "tui. talk my eye." l in in the bunds of my friends It re," he added, referring to the detectives. de-tectives. "That's all I know. I know w but sort of statement you fellows expect me to make. 1 don't know much to say." Dl I'l SDB ON i -l i '. POW ERfi " Fischer's Jocularity continued without with-out let-up throughout the excitement Of bis arrival. Lien detect Ives Bald they had to invoke the combined uld of tin mayor! tsheriii, crown attorney, chief of police, I'nited States consul and the Immigration Immigra-tion authorities of both countries at, Hamilton to g t Flsi her away, the former tennis slar broke In "Yeo, If 11 hadn't been for them I'd till be up in that darned plat e ' ' vvurc a gray bull and cap,! both wrinkled, b travel. He was clean shaven, but needed a haircut. Fischer stuck to bis statement that) "it was a premonition" that warned Mm In aeKanco of the Wall strict oc-i plosion, adding' "More will happen in the future I nseen powers have communicated' that through me." oo |