WALL STREET BOMB

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20056, 20 September 1920, Page 4

WALL STREET BOMB

THE ABRESTEO MAMS Telegraph—Press Association—Copjriclit Australian and JT.Z. Cabla Association, Ottawa. September it. frbm Hamilton Ontario, ityfe that Edwin hischer has been committed to an asylum for the insatie, apon the application! of relatives. ANAROIjiSTS SUSPECTED OF I , ■ OUTRAGE, , NEW YORK, September 17. PnTat f individuals have offered ten thousand, dollars more reward for evidence leading to the arrest of thoso responsible for the Wall Street esplbsmn. The failure of anyone to claim the Ownership of the horse and lorry which were blown up in the explosion fur her strengthens the belief of the authorities that the explosion was tile result of a plot. ' • The number of dead now totals &S and the injured SCO, of whom many are expected to die. The authorities are convinced that the explosion was the result of a plot either German or Anarchistic. The iioard or Aldermen has offered a reward of ten thousand dollars for the arrest of,those responsible for the proparty damage, which is conservatively estimated am two and a half million dollars- ■. * Business in Wall Street was resumed m-day as normally.' NEW YORK, September IS, i + iif e “ eT ** authorities now believe . liat the same-. Anarchist group which perpetrated- a bomb outrage in June Ll9, caused the Wall Street explosion! tuontical literature with that disclosed at tho scene of last year’s' occurrence was found in mail boxes not far from i the Wall Street disaster, CAMPAIGN AGAINST “REDS,” . YORK, September IS. . « Js understood that Mr Palmer, the Attorney-General, will ask next Congiest to appropriate extra funds with which the Department of Justice man institute systematic, widespread investigation into all forms of Radical activifcies. This step will be taken as a result of the Wall Street explosion. It is believed that Mr Palmer will take drastic measures against the Reds and other direct actionists. It is felt that the American people are terribly aroustlie, New, York tragedy, which lesulted iu the killing and maiming of working men and women, and will back any effort to rid the country of the perpetrators of such deeds.