A Jaunty Young Man

At noon on Thursday, September 16, 1920, a bomb was exploded in front of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Wall Street offices, causing great damage, the injury of more than 100 persons and the loss of 39 lives.

On May 3, 1923, Noah Lerner, watchmaker, electrician, master of all trades, arrived in New York on the Homeric, as assistant purchasing agent for the Kuzbas colony in Siberia.

On May 12, the police decoyed Lerner, who is described as " a jaunty young man," to the General Post Office at Eighth Avenue and 34th Street, New York, and there arrested him on the charge of the homicide of Carolyn Dickerson, one of the bomb victims.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doyle, of Baton Rouge, La., disillusioned members of the Kuzbas experiment, assert that in Siberia Lerner boasted that he had driven the fatal " little red wagon" to Wall Street. Beyond the knowledge that he was in New York at the time of the explosion and is a regular member of the I. W. W. there is no evidence against him.

Lerner made no objection to arrest, and proclaimed his innocence, asserting that an investigation will prove that the police have made another mistake and have again arrested the wrong man.

William J. Burns, head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, said: " We know who did it. ... They are at present in Russia. . . . Lerner was in Russia and may know something about it. At any rate, we will investigate him."