The sun., 1903-06-03
TO SCATTER BROKEN GLASS.
USE FOR WHICH PRESCOTT SAYS
HE MEANT HIS ROMBS.
Police Find Vile writings In His Room ana
Think He Is . De9enefaie-Nerer Az
tended an Anarchist Meetins-sorrS
lie Didn't Hill Rest Of Whalen FANNY

lie Didn't Hill Rest Of Whalen Family
The killing of Patrick Whalen by the
young man giving the name OF Charles
A. Prescott on Monday evening was further
investigated by the Brooklyn police yes
terday.
They found that he lived amid dirt al
most uncomfortable TO ordinary beings
and coupled with their other discoveries
they found enough vile writings IN the
pigsty which he made his home to lead then
TO the conclusion that he Is degenerate
OF a very low type.
Perhaps the most interesting discovery
OF the whole investigation, so Tar as IL hao
progressed yesterday, however, was maze
by william A. Hervey, assistant inspector
Of the Bureau Of Combustibles. 10 whom
the police had sent the bombs found In
Prescott's home, and who visited the pr1s-
oner in Raymond Street Jail after Prescott
had been measured for Identification at
the Brooklyn Police Headquarters.
Mr.. Hervey had dissected one of the two
completed bombs found in Prescott's room
and had found that while it was not very
deadly affair. it would cause cons de Iahe
trouble IL exploded in confined place. He
jail, and asked him why he had made It,
oh" said Pres scott 81 used to 1--we IN
Floral Park. Long leland. and the boys
bothered me there great deal made
up my mind finally that ! would get rid OF
their annoyance. and | devised y Is small
bomb, made of II. inch gaspipe-a piece
about three or four inches long which
| intended to place INSIDE pail or rim can
fpll 4 pf
hat the explosion of even as small bomb
a. that. scattering bits Of glass every
where, would cure the small boys of their
habit Of annoying me.
had been hammered into bomb shape by
South Brooklyn blacksmith, whose name
hp refused TO give. and he had bough, the
fuses of the Pain company
Prescott denied to reporters yesterday
that he had ever attended an Anarchisf
meeting He said that he had had trouble
AT his home in MASSACHUSETTS,. II at
enemies had followed him everywhere,
and that he was defending himse u from
these when he shot and killed Whaen and
shot and wounded Whalens son, Both
to the police and to the reporters Prescott
declared that he was sorry that he had not
killed the rest OF the Whalen family. The
roice believe that he had been practically
crazy for some time.
He had string of old cans and boilers
arranged IN his room; so that when me
door opened they would rat lie like burglar
alarm, and he had been in the habit Of
practising shooting in his room with pist OILS
In which ne fired caps, although no bullets;
Among Prescot's effects the police found
a girls picture. The prisoner said that the
girl was one he had known two years ago
who had thrown him over and hat her
photograph had been pasted on the card
of an actress. The picture bore the ad-
dress Of Manhattan phot rapher. at
whose studio it was said that the person
autographed was not remembered.
To the police Prescott said that he had
81 600 left OF legacy Of 1000 received from
his grandfather, and that the funds were
In the Bowery and Dime Savings banks
They found in his room books showing
alleged deposits with the Siegel Cooper
Company and the Pioneer Trust Company,
Capt. Toole said