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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1919
Page
4
A blast at the Palmer home kills the bomber while injuring no one else. An empty suitcase and a red taunting handbill signed The Anarchistic Fighters are found at the scene. Major Pullman calls up guards for Cabinet officers as the residence front collapses and debris spreads along the street.
Police and soldiers testified to the fearsome blast heard by onlookers near the scene. Some witnesses spoke of two explosions while most recalled a single detonation. Attorney General Palmer and his family remained composed, with Palmer unable to offer a motive for the attack, the second in six weeks after a bomb found at the New York post office was directed to him.
In New York an explosion beneath the entrance to Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. of the Court of General Sessions killed at least one person and possibly three. Debris sent bodies and clothing fragments across Lexington Avenue as damage felled nearby homes and an army officers club. The blast prompted suspicions of dynamite or trinitrotolazine and left investigators to sort blackened remains near Judge Nott’s residence.
In West Philadelphia two men in a car threw bombs at the Our Lady of Victory rectory and at jeweler Louis Jagielky’s home. A passing woman and girl were slightly injured. Mrs Lettut was seriously hurt. Lights failed from the blast. a citywide guard was ordered around churches and schools.
United States Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer was born in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated Swarthmore College in 1891 and entered law two years later. He served three terms in Congress starting 1908 and influenced Wilson's 1912 nomination. He led as alien property custodian in 1917 and supervised confiscation and sale of enemy assets. He married Roberta Bartlett Dixon and they had a daughter.
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