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Show V tt Tr nr tt V V "tf SUICIDE HELD GOIMUEADER .Prisoner's Leap to Death Dis-j Dis-j closes Progress Made By-Federal By-Federal Police BOMBINGS OF LAST JUNE CLEARING UP U. S. Agents Say Many Are I Nabbed for Dynamiting Palmer's House NEW YORK, May 3. Tony Tazlo,! 30 years old, detained by the depart-! ment of justice as nn important wit-, ness against a number of radicals ln-j volved in the bomb outrages last June, committed suicide early today by hurl-! lug himself from a window on the' fourteenth floor of a Park office, build- ing wheie the department headquarters headquar-ters aro .located. ! . Chief William J. Flynn, of the de-l partmet,. s.aid today that Tazlo was one of several anarchists who "yere I arrested 'in connection w 1th 'tho. bembj ;TJxpldsf5hoT':Mht detained at headquarters as a govern-1 ment witness for six wcehs. , j Two Persons Killed The June bomb attacks included tho , homes of Judge Charles C. Nott, of ; General sessions court in New York, iand Attorney General Palfer at "Wash ington. The explosions resulted in the death of two -persons. I Tazlo's suicide revealed for tho first time that any Important arrests ever had been mado In connection with the case. ' Chief Flynn said that the man's real name was Andre Salsedo. j Admits Part Played I Salsedo was a printer and writer. He was sleeping with another government govern-ment witness when he got up, went to the wsh room and jumped from the window without rousing his companion. compan-ion. Mr. Flynn admitted that several other men had been arrested in connection con-nection with the plots, that they had confessed to participating and that tbey had agreed to turn government witnesses. He declined, however, to give the names or to explain what part they had played. Circulars Traced From Chief Flynn and N. C. Donato, Salsedo's lawyer, it was learned that the circulars had ben printed Jn an Italian printing establishment in Brooklyn whore Salsedo was employed. em-ployed. I According to Donato, his client's em-1 ployer asserts that Salsedo niust have' done the work Jn his sparo time without with-out -his knowledge. He admitted, how- eer, that the circular headed "Plain Words" and signed "Anarchist Fighters," Fight-ers," had been turned out on his presses. Chief Flynn said the Salsedo and other government witnesses had ox-pressed ox-pressed fear of being murdered by the anarchist plotters If it became known they hal confessed. At their own suggestion, quarters were arranged for them In the Park Row building. Salsedo's wife was al-lowod al-lowod to visit him frequently. Sho Is said to havo spent much of yesterday with him. t News of Salsedo's death will give the first Information to some of his former for-mer confederates, Chief Flynn said, that some of the conspirators had been for a long time in custody. . |