The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-16
SLEUTHS ON SCENT
OF THE DYNAM|TER
Following a Trunk Check Clue
at Chicago.
A HORRIBLE SUGGESTION
VAS the Destruction of the Naronic, Whose Dis
appearance Has Always Been a Mystery,
Accomplished by This Dynamite
Fiend?
(By the Associated Press.)


Chicago. May 14.-Working on what
they believe to be positive information
that the internal machine found
on the wharf of the ocean liner
Umbria, was made on the West
side in Chicago, police officials are hope
full that they will be able to find the man
Russell, or Rosseau who made the device.
Today George w. McCluskey, chief Of
detectives Of New York. and Detective
sergeants Funston and Carey. of the same
city, reached Chicago in an endeavor to
surprise the maker of the machine before
it became known here that there was a.
clue leading to this city. In this they were
disappointed.
Chief McCluskey communicated with
Lieutenant Rohan and then made an in
vestigation personally. He is confident
that the internal machine was made or at
least completed ii the rooming house at
2S7 Washington Boulevard. kept by Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Ehlen, though he is doubt
After making hurried investigation here
Chief McCluskey LETT for New York.
Detectives Funston and Carey had a
long conference with Lieutenant Roman,
whom they informed that, in their opinion,
Russell and Rosseau were the same man.
they believe tnat after the completion of
the machine Russell went TO New York
and may still be in that city.
They have information that he received
mail here and they are endeavoring to
know how long he was In Chicago prior to
taking a room at Mrs. Ehlen's. The de-
tectives thought so complicated piece OF
mechanism as the internal machine was
shown to be could. could not have been
completed in seven days, and believe that
its beginning was at some place other than
the Washington Boulevard boarding
house
The trunk which is believed to have car
ried the Internal machine found on the
Umbria dock in New York, and which
was shipped from this city on April rs, is
now thought to have been purchased Of the
American Storage and Van Company. 246
West Madison street. On April % a man
the description of the New York
Washington Boulevard, address from which
place it has been traced through the trans
fer company of New York The descrip-
ton given by Mr.. and Mrs. Ehlen, of a
mysterious roomer at their home talhes
with that of G.. Rosseau. When he ap
peared at the Ehlen House on April 10 and
engaged board for a week, he is said to
have carried small grip. Within two or
three days tools and pieces of mechanism
began to arrive. His explanation to Mrs !
Ehlen was that he was an inventor and
that his contrivance was new gambling /
device.
The Chicago police this afternoon dis
covered three men, who, it is believed, |
unsuspectingly assisted the mysterious &C |
RUSSELL in manufacturing his deadly de-
vice. The men are j. w. Seymour, carpen-
ter; J. w. Elsenberg, blacksmith, and John
Clarke, machinist, whose shops are In the
vicinity of the apartment occupied by
Russell in Washington Boulevard. They
say they made various parts of what was
described to them as a new gambling de-
vice.
Chief of Detectives McCluskey and De-
tective Sergeants Carey and Funston OF |
New York, arrived at Chicago today and
spent most of the afternoon following the
trunk check clue. Inspector McCluskey
returned to New York tonight but left
his two detectives here to assist the local
ponce on the case. Before leaving for the
east, the Inspector said:
Il believe the machine was made in I
Chicago, and mat the conspiracy, if any
existed was Matched here. We have the
entire detective force of New York on the
case, and we are looking for startling de-
yeloDments soon"
Lieutenant Rohan, of the Chicago De-
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