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1919
TunrirvTKS,n C.reater ?iv Vork and | THRK! fEXTS
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"Reds Explode Bombs in
Jud
A.
s Home Blown
itchel
ities;
iTwoKilled;
e Is Wrecked
Austrians Get
Terms; Admit
Their Guilt
Treaty Terins Are Given
to Vienna Envoys, Who
Are Notified They Must
Reply Within 15 Days
Dr. Reiiner Asks
Friendly Justiee
Fornier Chancellor Does
Not Seek to Justify the
Enipire*s Part in War
ST. GERMAIN, June 2 (By The As
aocited Fress).?The representatives
of the vanquished Austrian nation
met the victors at to-day'a ceremony in
the rifteen ccntury castle of St. Ger- i
main 10 appeal for grace and just and
kindly treatment. No trace of the ar
rogant spirit with which Count von
Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the Ger
man delegation, attempted at Versailles ,
to arraign the Allied Powers as jointly
responsibie for the war and demanded
participatiou in the negotiations on
equal terms marked the speech of Dr. i
KarKRennar, the Austrian Chancellor,,
who veplicd to Georges Clemenccau, I
pre_-i'!ent of the conferer.ce.
Thf Austrian Plenipotentiary, speak
ing in French as a concession to his ?
auditors, did not seek to extenuate the '
guilt of the former Austro-Hungarian ,
go%-err.ment for "the horrible crime !
of 1914." j
Wants Rurden Divided
he asked only that the full weight j
of the punishnient should not fail sole
lyon the little mountain republic. which j
was all that was left of the once
mighty Austria, but that it b? regarded ;
as only one of eight new republics into
which the old monarchy had been dt- '
vided and that it be apportioned no
more of the penalty than it could bear.
Dr. Renner even went out of his way
to praise the generous reiief work un- '
dertaken by the Allies. The tone of
his speech evidently made a most fa
vorable im^ression on the assembled
plenipotentiaries. Presideni Wilson
listened with the closest attention,
resting his ehin on his hand.
The delegates of Poland, Czccho
Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia alone evinced
discontent at those parts of the speech
in which the Austrian chief, by impli
cation, attempted to assign to them a
proportionate share of reparations.
It was evident, however, that Dr.
Renner had been earefully studying
the proceedinga of the lnter-AUied
conference, and he adapttd his utter
an< ei to the aituation.
Onl> Sixte?n Allies Representcd
? -'? ?'.-.-;on waa late in opening and
*as vastly overcrowded. Although the
repreaentativea of cn!y the sixteen
ttatea which brok<> relation with
Austria, inatead of a full array
,,f- the associated powers, were
aeated .-'. the conference table
with the Austrians, multitude
?of aeeretaries, attaches. officera
*M others of more or leaa anpar
?nt ror,nection with the proceedings
had gained admission to the room and
atood m xerried rowM around the walla
?nd even oceupfed th<- rccetjs of the big
ftreptMe behind M. f.krnenccau.
Pb? room gave th? impreasion of an
''" '?'?'? to make a ring for an im
Promptu diactttaion m a crowd, rather
thain of a aesaion f',r a digrnfied hia
t0t\t eer?rnony.
Ihe ntishtp of a photograph^r, who,
i* Ue midat of Dr. R?nn*r'? apeech,
?IJ, with a craxh of shattered glasa,
"ito on* of the musteum caaes, and the
Mosdere of the Yrt-nch offleial tranula
tor, who. twiee during tb? Gtrman
Continusd on pap? three
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??*?? *??# * <*.. f) K?w?y.~A<lvt.
Price of Peace That
Austria Must Pay
l'TXDER the treaty the area of the
*-' Austrian einpire is reduced from
240,935 squarc miles to betwecn 40,
0000 and 50,000 square miles.
Her population is reduced from
over tifty to between five and six
millions.
She must recognize the independ
ence of Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia
and Jugo-Slavia.
She must renounce all ext>ra-Euro
pean rights.
She must recognize and respect the
independence of all Russian terri
tory.
She must agree to accept the
league of nations covenant and the
inbor charter.
She must demobilize all naval and
aerial forces.
She must admit the right of trial
by Allied and associated powers of
Austrian nationals guilty of viola
tions of the law3 and customs of
force.
She must make compensation for
all damages by personal injury to
civilians caused by acts of war, in
cluding aerial bombardments.
She must assure complete protec
tion of life and liberty to all inhabi
tants of Austria.
She must agree not to impose any
restrictions on the use of any lang
guage.
She must abanfion all financial
claims against Allied or associatel
powers.
Army 'Plane
To Fly Across
U. S. in 2 Days
Martin Bomber to Start
From Mineola Field to
Land at San Francisco
With Only Single Stop
Ncw York Tribune
Waxhington Bureu?
WASrilNGTON, June 2K? A trans
continental flight, from coast to t;oast,
with on'v one stop scheduled soon
will be attempted by the army air ser
vicc. Major General Menoher, di
rector of air service, announced to-day
the 'cross-the-country jump will begin
at Mineola Keld, Xew York, wifhin a
few days, and end at San Francisco.
The 'plane to attcmpt the ambitious
enterprise will he the huge Martin
bomber, driven by twin Liberty twelye
niotors, and piloted by Captain Roy N.
Francis and First Lieutenant Edmund
A. Clune, assisted by two or thrcc
mechanics. The machir.e rccently has
been given exhausiive tests, and is de
clared in army a>r circles to be equal
to the fiight planned.
The total distance from coast to
coast is computed to be 2,750 miles,
which the army fliers expect to cover
in two successive days. The only stop
on the itinerary will be at Xorth Platte,
N'eb., which will make the first leg
1,502 miles and the final leg 1,248
miles.
Starting from Mineola Field at 3:30
a. m., the huge 'plane will soar over
the City of Xew York at 3:37 a. m., and
then speed westward over thirteen
states in a neurly direct air line from
Xew York to Sun Francisco. It will
pass from Xew York over the northern
part of Xew Jersey, Central Pennsyl- i
vania, Xorthern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Southern Iowa, Central Xebraska,
Southern Wyoming, Xorthern' Utah,
Nevada and California. The large
cities along the route are Cleveland,
Toledo. Chicago, Dcs Momes, Omnha,
Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Sacra
mento. The r.outhcrn end of Lakc Mich
igan is to be crossed, the Mississippi at
j Rock Island and Davenport and the
!Mi.ssouri at Omaha. The highest land
elevaiion en route is about 8,000 feet.
The condition of the territory passed
over will be tabulated from the stand
point of good and bad terrain for aerial
routes, and valuable iriformation as to i
mcteorological conditions will be gained.
The last transcontinental flight made
by the Air Service was that of Major
Thornas C. MacAuley, who doubled the
Southern continental route from San
Diego, Ca!? to .lacksonville. Fla., be
tween April 12 and 1?, a distance of
4,642 miles, in 2,655 minutes flying time.
KcpubIi<atiH Win in Norwioh
XORWJCH, Conn., June 2. The Rc
publicans won in the city clection to
1 day Dy majoritien of from 40 to 60,
eitcting all their candidates for the
I Coramon Council, which will make the
I council evenly divided, with Mayor .!.
.). Desmond, Domocrat, holding the dc
I Cifling vote.
The vote on repeal of an act making
th? ofllre of Water Superintendent a
life j<>b during cornpctency was 1,120
j for repeal and F,I5 against.
. Itnltn. ft Wnhlilngton Hiind?.v Kxrumlnn
Irt N>v/ J*,m*/ ''orilral, .Junn ?, |.l 24 niun<l
1 '' 'P '-"'?? I.U/'Tiy Kt 8*.tur<lay rmdriUht.
?Aflvt.
Bomfo Planters
Sound Opening
Of Class War
BiJl Found in Capital Says
Workers Have Aceepted
Challenge of Capitalists
to Destructive Conflict
Called Only a Warning
"Plain Words" Says Time
Has Come for Struggle
Against All "Tyrannies"
WASHINGTON, June 2.?The police
late to-night found a handbill near the
scene of the explosion at the Palmer
residence, headed "Plain Words" and
reading as follows:
"The powers that be make no secret j
of their will to stop here in America
the wjyld-wide spread of revolution.
The powers that must be reckons that i
they will have to accept the fight they j
have provoked.
"The time has come when the social
question's solution can be delayed no ;
longer. Class war is on and cannot l
cease but with a complete victory for
the international proletariat.
"Challenge an Old One"
"The challenge is an old one, oh !
'democratic' lords of the autocratic re
public. We have been dreaming of
freedom, we have talked of liberty, we j
havs aspired to a better world, and '
you jailed us, you clubbed us, you !
deported us, you murdered us when
ever you could.
"Now that the great war, waged to ;
replenish your purses an build a ped
estal to your saints, is over, nothing
better can you do than to protect your
stolen millians and your usurped fanie
than to direct all the power of the mur
derous institutions you created for
your exclusive defense against the
working multitude*s rising to a more !
human conception of life.
"The jails, the dungeons you reared
to bury all protesting voices are now j
replenished with languishing conscien- I
tious workers, and never satisfied, you I
increase their number every day.
"Prospects Even Worse"
"It is history of yesterday that your
gunmen were shooting and murdering
unarmed masses by the wholesale: it
has been the history of every day iii |
your regime, and now all prospects are
even worse.
"Do not expect us to sit down and
pray and cry. We accept your chal?
lenge and mean to stick to our war
duties? We know that all you do is j
for your defense as a class; we know ?
also that the proletariat has the same i
right to protect itself. fiincc their i
press has been suffocated, their mouths I
i niuzzled, we mean to speak for them, i
the voice of dynamite, through the I
mouth of guns.
"Do not say that we are acting [
cowardly, because we keep in hiding; !
do not say it is abominable; it is
wnr, class war. and you were the first I
to waje it under cover of the powerful I
institutions you call order, in the dark
1 r.oss of your laws, behind the guns of
your bonheaded slaves.
"No liberty will protect right do
you accept but ours; the working peo
ple also have a right to freedom, and
their right, our own rights, we have :
set our minds to protect at any pricc.
"We are not manw. though perhaps
more than you dream of, but are all j
determined to fight to the last, till not j
a man remains buried in your Bastiles, :
till not a hostage of the working class
is left to the tortures of your polico
aystem, and will never rest till your ,
fall is complete nnc* the laborin^
masses have taken possession of all '
that rightiy belongs to them.
"There will have to be bloodshed;
we will not dodge. There will have to I
be murder; we will kill, because it Is
necessary. There will have to be de- ;
struction; we will destray to rid the
world of your tyrannical' institutions.
Getting Into Fight
"Our mutual position is pretty
clear. What has been donc by us so
far is only a worning that there are
friends of popular liberties still liv
ing. Only now we are getting into the
fight, and you will havo a chance to
see what liberty-loving people can do.
"Do not seek to believe that we are
the Germans' or the devil's paid
agents. You know well we are class
eonscious men with strong tietermina
tion and no vulgnr fiability.tAnd never
hope that your copa and your hounds
will ever succeed in ridding the coun
try of the anarchistic germ that pulses
in our veins. We know how we stand
with you and know how to tako care of
ourselves.
"Beaidea, you will never get all of ua,
for we multiply nowadaya.
1 Juat wait and resign to your fate.
since privilege and richea have turned
your hend.
"I.ong livc Hocial rovolution. Down
with tyranny.
"THE ANARCHISTIC F1GHTERS."
Stoop of Residence of Jurist in East 61st
Street Destroyed by an Explosion of
What Police Call Dynamite, but Wha!
Army O f f i c e r s Believe Was TNT
Bomber Belived a Victim;
Parts of Bodies Are Found
Mrs. Nott, in House With Caretaker and
Wife and Child, Not Injured?Hus
band Declines to Comment on Altack
?Part of Womairs Clothing Found
A bomb which police experts said
had contained probably ten pounds of
dynamite was exploded beneath the
stoop of the home of Charles C. Xott.
jr., Judge of the Court of General Ses
sions, at 151 East Sixty-iirst Street,
shortly before 1 o'clock this morning.
Though the front of the house was
wrecked, its occupants, who included
Mrs. Mary Xott, wife of the jurist,
escaped injury.
The pohce believe two persons were
killed by the explosion but are still
unablo to make sure of this. Parts of
a .human body were picked up in the
street in front of the house. A piece
of a woman's skirt with bits of flcsh
adhering. to it were found across the
street. In Third Avenue, nearly a
block from the scene of the explosion,
part of a head of a man was picked
up. This led the police to believe that
a man and woman had met death.
Bomber Believed Victim
1* is reirarded as certain that one
of the victims of the blast was the
person who placed the bomb beneath
the stoop.
There also was found near the Xott
home part of the sleeve of a uniform
coat such as is worn by patrolmen of
the Holmos Electric Protective As"so
ciation. Apparently its wearer had
been killed.
Ofticials of the Holmes Agency said
two of their watchmen were detailed
to the block between Lexington and
Third avenues. Xeither had reported
up to 3:30 o'cock. They are Michael
Higgins and William Boehner.
The part of the sleeve found bore
two service stripes. Higgins, officials
of the company said, wore many ser?
vice stripes and they concluded the
uniform could not have been his. How
mnny Higgins wore they could not
say.
Mrs. Xott was thrown from her bed
in a room on the second floor by the
force of the explosion but was not
hurt seriously enough to require med
ical attention. .ludge Xott is at the
family's summer home, Black Point,
near Xew London, Conn.
Communicated with by long distance
telephone, Judge Xott. who several
years ago sent to Sing Sing for long
terms men convicted of a plot to bomb
St. Patrick's Cathcdral, declined early
this morning to make any comment on
the affair.
Despito the assertion of Owen
Eagan, inspector of the Police Depart
ment's Bureau of Combustibles, that
the bomb had contained a powerful
charge of dynamite, army officers who
live in the clubhouse of the Motor
Transport Corps a few doors from the
Xott home say the odor following the
explosion was distinctly that of T.X.T.
Bits of a human body were blown
through the windows of their sleeping
quarters on the third floor.
Injured in Xott's home, besides his
wife, were John Vjorken, caretaker; his
wife Ida, and their seven-year-old
daughter Agnes. All were asleep when
the explosion occurred.
All of the window glass for blocks
around was shattered, indicating, po
licemen early on the scene said, that
the bomb had been very powerful.
Stoop Blown From House
The stoop of .ludge Xott's house was
separatcd from the building proper
by the force of the explosion, and the
stairway leading up from the front
liflll was wrecked. Pictures were blown
from the walls in every room in tiie
house.
In houses two lots removed on both
sidcs ceilings and walls were blown
out or crncked and paintings knockcd
from their hangings.
Detectives Scully nnd Dietschley of
the East Sixty-seventh Street station
werr standing at Third Avenue and
Sixty-firnt Street when they heard the
explosion. They pulled a tire alarm
and also suinruoned an ambulance from
Flowcr Honpital. When other police
irien arrived they picked up parts of a
body lifty feet away 1'roni the front j
of the Xott house and placed the parti
cles in a box. It was said that the
shattered body apparently was that of
a man, Description of the body waa
impossible.
Captain Walter J. Walker, of the
Motor Transport Corps, was asleep at
the Officers' Clubhouse across the way
from Judge Nott'a house. He was
urouscd from his sleep by the explosion.
A piece of the bomb landed on his
bed on the third floor.
Lieutenant A. H. Martis, who was
also asleep in the clubhouse, found a
part of?a body on his bed.
Parts of the body also were found
under the stoop and a poliepman picked
up a false mustachc.
Two Persons Killed
After the policemen had gone I'ur
ther in their investigation, it became
apparent that two persons were killed
in the explosion. Half of a human I
head on which remnants of a mustachc
remained were picked up in Third Ave
nue, while' closer to the scene of the
explosion parts of a body found were
undoubtedly those of a wonian.
Patrolman John Connelly, of the
East Sixty-seventh Street Station, said
he was standing at the corner of Lex
ington Avenue and East Sixty-first
Street at 12:45 a. m. when he heard a
terrific explosion. He said the air was
fillcd with a dense cloud of dust ex
tending as high as the roofs of the
buildings.
"I saw an ;iimy officer in uniform ,
in the block and yelled to him to turn
in a fire alarm," he said. "As I ran
toward Judge Knott's horae, residents
! of the surrounding houses poured into
| the street in their night clothing. Ev
. ery pane of glass in residences, as
far as I could sce, lay in the street. j
? I am positive there was no'onc visible
, in the block, with the exception of the !
army officer that I mention."
Dynamite Bomb, Says Expert
The officer was Lieutenant Kinskey
! of the Motor Transport Corps, who
! lives in the corps club house at 158 j
i East Sixty-first Street. He was pass- j
j ing the corner of Lexington Avenue i
i when the explosion occurred. He said
1 this morning he -saw no one in the j
i street but Conelly.
lnspector Owen F.agan of the Bu
reau of Combustibles surveyed the!
[ wreckage and pronounccd it the result :
! of a dynamite bomb.
"It was a clean job,*' he said.
j A man seen acting suspiciously in !
j the neighborhood of Judge Nott's
I home a half hour after the explosion j
j was taken to the East Sixty-seventh
i Street station.
At 149 East Sixty-first Street is the
! home of Judge Richard P. Lydon, re- ;
; cently elected to the Supreme Court.
j The interior of his home was badly
'' daniaged.
Doctor's Three Daughters Hurt
At 153, adjoining Judge Xott's home,
on the other side, is the residence of
j Dr. John McKew. He and his three
| daughters? Lillian, Queenie and Itosa
alie?were awakened when the ceilings
of their bedrooms fo 11 upon them. Dr.
Continued on next page
'-'' : ??' '?'?'? ? '? fai?; ::-? & Ewing
A. Mitehell Palmer
Church of Our Lady of
Victory Is Damaged;
Autoists Are lnspected;
Home \iso Is Atlacked
PHILADELPHIA, June 2.- Two bomb
outrages were perpeti-ated in West
Philadelphia between 11 o'clock and
midnight to-night. One was at the
rectory of the Church of Our Lady
of Victory. Fifty-fourth and Vine
strcets, and the other at the residence
of a business man. Louis Jajieky, of
241 South Fifty-seventh Street.
Reports of bomb explosion at other
Catholic churches were current, but
none vcrified. Every Catholic church
in West Philadelphia and in other
parts of the city were searched by the
police as a measure of precaution.
The police were unable to give any
theory as to the mo'tive for the out?
rages, though there was an obvious
connection in point of time with the
bomb explosions in other cities to
night.
Shortly after !.l o'clock, two bombs
cxploded under the porch of Our Lady
of Victory rectory within a few seconds
of each other, wrecking tliL> stone pii
lar of the porch. shattering every
window of the rectory and three in
the basement of the church. Sevaral
stained glass windows in the church
also were broken.
The Rev. J. F. Graham, pastor of
the church, was asleep in a front sec
ond-story room. He was almost
thrown out of bed by the coneussion.
None of the four occupants of the
house, however, was injured.
A search by the police disclosed
some copper wire and percussion caps
which leads them to believe that the
explosion was effected by time bornbs.
It was reported an automobile passed
the rectory just a few minutes prior
to the explosion. It was said that it
been thrown from the machine toward
the builcling.
The Jajieky home was wrecked. Ja?
jieky, his wife and mother were asieep
on the second floor at the time.
The mother, an aged woman, was in?
jured by the shock and taken to a hos
pital. The interior of the house was
completely demolished, only the four
walls standing. It is thought that the
bomb exploded on the outside of the
house. A party of motorists passing
at the time assistcd in reieasink Jajieky
and his wife and moter from the debbris
and then summoned the police. Jajieky
is a jeweller.
. Later in the nigh't W. Jirrane, who
said he lives in West Philadelphia,
was arrested in connection with the
explosions. He will be given a hear
ing to-morrow.
An automobile found abandoned in
Fairmount ^ark is believed by the
police to have been the one used by
the bomb hurlers. In it was found a
quantity of papers and Russian litera
ture which will be trar.,slated in the
hope that. they may furnish a ciue to
the identity of the perpretrators of
the outrnge.
Explosion at Home
Of Mayor of Cleveland
CLEVELAND, O., June 2.-An at
tempt was made to blow up the home
of Mayor Harry L. Davis here to-night.
Xo one was injured, but a part of the
house was wrecked.
First rcportr; were that it was a gas
explosion, but police later declared a
bomb or infernal machine had been
planted.
Firsl Clew of the Criminals Is Found in
Washington. Where Perpetrator of
Crime at Attorney GeneraFs Resi
dence Is Blowu t o Bits by Explosion
Mayor of Cleveland Among
Those Picked as Victims
? _.
Caf holie Chnreh in Philadelphia Is
Badly Damaged in One of Two At
tacks; Two Explosions in Pittsburgh,
One in Boston and Other in Paterson
The "reds" early this morning attempted apparently to inaugurata
another reign of terror.
Bombs were set off in eight cities of the East shortly after niidnight.
In almost every instance the home of some person of prominence was
wrecked.
In New York City, a bomb of tremendous power shattered the home
of Judge Charles C. Nott of the Court of General Sessions, at 151 East
Sixty-first Street. Judge N'ott is away on his vacation. His wife was in
tlie house, but was not hurt.
The bomb tore one person, or possibly two, into shreds. Late re
ports by the police say that it is believed that a man and a woman were
killed. All of the houses in the block betvveen Lexington and Third av
enues were damaged by the detonation.
In Washington, the home of A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorr.ey General,
was dynamited. The police report that the man who planted the bomb
wras blown to bits.
This is the second attempt to be made on the life 6? Attorney General
Palmer within six weeks. One of the bombs held at the New York Poat?
oflice by the authorities late in April, Was addressed to him.
The conspirators ?set off bombs in Cleveland, where the home of
Mayor Harry L. Davis was wrecked; Boston, where the residence of
Justice Albert F. Haylen, of the Roxbury Municipal Court, was blown
up; Newtonville, Mass.; Pittsburgh, West Philadelphia and Paterson N. J.
Coming, as this morning's series of explosions have, hard on the heela
of the attempt to send bombs through the mails to leaders in the nation's
fight against radicals, it is believed by the authorities that both plots tnay
have been moulded by the same hand.
The bombs used this morning were infinitely more powerful, how
ever, than those sent out through the New York Postoffice late in April.
Hamihill Ftn-nishe? Clew
The only definite clew as to their inspiration, was contained in a hand
bill picked up near the home of Attorney General Palmer, after the ex?
plosion. This was poorly printed on cheap paper and signed "Anarchistic
Fighters."
"The powers that be made no secret of their intention to stop the
world-wide revolution in America," this began; and after lengthy and
infiammatory startements, concluded with the statement that the ?'anar
chistic fighters" accepted the challenge.
In all cities shaken by explosions, the bombs were direeted against
some persons of prominence in the community, except in Paterson and
Philadelphia. In the Jersey town, Max Gold, a silk manufacturer, was
tbrown from his bed by the force of the blaet that wrecked his home.
In West Philadelphia, two bomhs were set off. These were thrown
by two men driving in an automobile. One bomb lit on the steps of the
rectory of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Victory. and shat?
tered its facade, slightly injuring two women passing by. The other
ciemolished the jewelry store of Louis Jagielky, eight blocks away.
Pittsburgh was also shaken by two bombs. One of these was exploded
against the front steps of the home of C. J. Cassady, two doors from the
home of United States District Judge W. H. S. Thompson. Both these
houses and several others were damaged.
The other infernal machine tore apart the home of H. K. Joseph, a
train dispatcher, in the West End district.
Xn newtonville, Mass., the home of Representative Leland VV. Powers
was torn apart by a bomb.
As far as can be learned, the explosions brought about fatalities
only in New York City and Washington. In no case did they accomplii&e
the death of the person for whom they were intended.
Palmer 9s Family in House,
But All Escape Injury
WASH1XGT0X. June 2.?An attempt
on the life of Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmef was made to-night
through tbe planting of a bomb, which
wrecked the lower portion of the
Palmer residence in the fashionable
northwest section of Washington.
Mr. Pafmer and the members of his
faimily escaped without injury, being
on the sccond floor at the time of the
explosion.
One man, thought to be the person
who planted the bomb, was blown to
bits by the explosion. The police be?
lieve that the bomb exploded pre
maturely. before it could be placed
under th'j< house.
Bomb in Suit Case
| The bomb, the police said, was con
i (ained in a suit case lilled with cloth
i ing. Portions of the clotbing of the
Iman killed, it was said, indicated that
he was roughly clad.
? The esplosion shattered w-indows in
residences for a biock on each side of
the Palmer home. The residence of Sen
! ator Swanson, of Viiginia. next door
to the Atjtorney General, was sltghtiy
damaged.'
"The only way I can reconstruct
the incident," said Major Puilman. ru
perintendent of the con.ta^ police. at
the end of his preliminary investiga
tion. "is on the thcory that the ??
plosive blew up just as it. was being
: deposited in the doorway."
Homes of Ofhcials Cuarded
Instantly upon receiot of the news
? of the attemnt on the lives of leading
men in other cities. Major Puilman
. ordered specia! fcuards ?ent out to the
residences of Cabinet officers and
prominent men in the government.
What mav tur'n out to be the first
clues leading to identineatibn and cap
ture of the anarchists was obtained
when an einpty suit case discoverrd
near the entrance to the Palmer home
was found to ci.ntain ;. band hill
sjgned, "The Anarehistie Kigh'e.'.* "
The bill, serving warning that ? gen*
j eral was wjs to bc waged agaiuat
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