The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-13
BOMBSENDER KNOWN.
G.. Rosseo Was the Name
He Went Under Here.
BOX and LETTER TRACED TO HIM
AT Theatrical Boarding House,
366 West 31st Street.


His Trunk and Clothes-He Said He'd
Been In the Theatrical business and
Knew Manager Gustaye IAtton-Mrs.
Cnrrie. the Landlady. Gave Pelice
Story OF New BOarder, tho Letter
and the BOx-Expressmen Confederate.
The Internal machine containing q
hundred pounds of dynamite which was
sent to the Cunard Line pier on Thursday
last and left there by two expressmen who
said the owner was to sail on the UmbriA
on Saturday, came from the Currie House,
theatrical boarding house at 800 West
Thirty-frst street, which was formerly the
headquarters OF the AL Adams system Of
policy shops. Peter Battle and Joseph
Mccormick. drivers employed by Patrick
Rooney, an expressman who has q stand
at the southeast corner OF Thrtieth street
and Ninth avenue. are the men who took
the boz to the pier and they took II inno-
Gently enough. thinking it was q box OF
dry goods.
BOMB SENDER CALLED HIMSELF q. RossEo.
A complete description Of the man who
sent the box to the pier from the Currie
House is in the possession OF the police, and
they have also the name that he used while
boarder in the house also his trunk and
clothing which he left behind him when
he left the house, on Saturday morning.
last. Where the clothing was made or
sold they decline to tell at present. They
also withhold the name the man went under,
but as nearly as it could be got from those
who had heard it pronounced but had
not seen it written. it was G.. Rosseo. Rosso
would be more likely if the name was an
attempt at Italian. Maybe the anagram
artists can get something out of @. Rosseo
that is not Italian.
Ore of the detectives gagged on the case
said last night that the police know who
the man really is, that they know a good
deal about him and that they will get him
sooner or later. 1t is even stated that the
mans name has been found on papers he
left behind
LANDLADY TELLS THE PolICE.
On Monday night, Mrs. Currie, who keeps
the boarding house. notified Inspector
McClusky over the telephone that she was
sure the box found on the Cunsrd pier
had come from there. Detective Sergeant
Arthur Carey, was sent to see her at once
and this is the story she told:
Last Thursday man came here and
said that he wanted a room. He mentioned
that he once knew Glstave Litton, theat-
rical manager who used to board here,
A. d.
said that he Was once theatrical man him.
self, but was now a commercial traveller,
and that he would not want TO stay very
long in New York He wanted room for q
week, and l told him that my second floor
front was vacant. He looked at the room.
said that it was just what he wanted, paid
me weeks board in advance and very
soon afterward went away and returned
with trunk The trunk was carried to
his room by an eXpressman.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE BOX.
AT 2 o'clock that same afternoon, or
maybe it was little later the man came
downstairs with his hat on and said that
lie was going out 10 get an expressman
to take a box downtown for him. He
asked me if | would mind seeing that the
men got the box all right. | said l would
be glad to obige him. He took me up to
his room and showed me the box. which
was then standing behind the door. so that
when you opened the door 1t was not visible
unless you went all the way into the room.
1t was a plain white wood box with iron
handles The thing that surprised me
was how he had got a box into his room.
l was sure that he didn't bring any box
with him when he came. 1t must have
been inside the trunk, although. of course,
1 did not think of such thing then.
After showing me the box, the man went
away. and pretty soon after that a green
wagon with a black canvas top drove up
to III y house and two men came up the stoop.
They told me that they had come after q
box which was to go TO the Cunard Line
pier. gentleman had Just left them an
order, they said. recognized them a.
being men employed by Patrick Rooney,
an expressman around the corner, and took
them up to the second-story front room.
They took the box by the handles carried
it downstairs and drove away with 1t. 1t
must have been little after o'clock In
the afternoon.
DISAPPEARANCE OF @. Ro u 70.
"When my new boar der came in at Q
O'Clock he asked me If the men had called for
the box. I told him that they had and that
it had gone. He thanked me and went to
his room. ] saw very little of him after this
save at meal times, He was quiet, we'll
behaved man and didn't make friends With
the other people in the house. He always
dressed well. but spent very little time In
the house. He was out most Of the time.
"He was up early Saturday morning and
had breakfast with the first Of my boarders.
After break fast he went right to his room
and sat down at a small table there, took
out pencil and began to write letter.
Il saw him writing the letter as ! went
up the hall, for his door was open. Half
an hour later he went down stairs with his
hat on and walked west, in the direction Of
Ninth avenue. He shut and locked his
door before going out.
"The man has not come back His trunk
ana his clothing are still here and there Ia