The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
HUNT IS HOT FOR DYNAMITER
POLICE KNOW MORE or HIN THAN
THEY VIII TELL.
He Brought Dynamite TO Mrs. Cnrrie's
In n Buggy From Some Place Not an
Hour Away-DOubt II q. RoSseO or
ROsscau Is Hts Right Name-Said He'd
Been In Mexico Working for Edison Co.

NOsScau Is HN "Bbt >aHIe-SNu nc "
Been In Mexico Working for Edison Co.
Although the police expect to get the
man known as G.. Rosseo, or Rosscau,
who shipped an internal machine containing
100 pounds of dynamite from Mrs. Joseph
Currics boarding house, at 1856 West Thirty
first street, to the Cunard Line pier on
Thursday last, they say that publicity
has made the task more difficult. A good
deal more information about RosHeo, his
habits and his appearance was obtained
yesterday from Mrs. currie's' other board
ers, some of whom struck up quite friend
ship with him during lis stay in tht house.
Inspector McClusky YVES very close
mouthed about the missing dynamiter
yesterday. He did, once in the afternoon,
express the belief that he would soon have
him, and said that with the information
in his possession he regarded the escape
of the man dr. impossible
But he declined to reveal the direction
in which the man hunt is being made, saying
that the publication of the story of the box
having been sent to the pier from Mrs.
Currie's boarding house had already in
jured his case enough.
Gen. Greene also expressed the belief that
Rosseo cannot escape, and said yesterday
that the police ought to have him in few
hours. He said that the Detective Bureau
was hot on the mans trail and was certain
to get him. Cen Greene minated that a
good deal of valuable Information that
has not yet been made public is in the
hands of the police.
As a precaution yesterday the police
cabled to Liverpool to have the Umbria
searched for a man answering Rosseo's
description when she arrives there. In
spector McClusky thinks there is a chance
that Rosseo sailed on the umbria. although
he regards il as slight one. The WASH
ington police have also been asked to look
up Rosseo's movements in that city on May
and 8, it having been discovered he was
in that city on those days. Locally the work
of searching for the man is being done byi
some fifty detectives and the entire uni-
formed force. Rosseo's description has
been sent broadcast throughout the de-
partment and every policeman in the city
is looking for him.
1t developed yesterday that Rosseo was
cal led by number of names in Mrs. Cur |
lie 3 boarding house. 1t appears that no
never took the trouble to spell his name
out for any one. Some called him Rosseo,
others called him Rousseau, and still others
had the idea that his name was spelled
Bosseaud. He appeared to be Indifferent as
light or not. Mrs. Curre knew him as'
Rosseo Some linen found in his room
bore the initials SC r.
1t appears from the stories told yester-l
day by Henry De Belmonte, yacht steward,
and Robert C.. Rivers, both Of whom arc
boarders and men who had a speaking
acquaintance with Rosseo, that he came to
the house on April q last and took the second
floor front room but went away on May III
saying he was going to Washington to 500
some friends on business.
1t was just a week ago to-day that he
returned to the house from Washington,
and he then paid Mrs Currie weeks remit
in advance.
Shortly after he returned last Thursday
he left the house again and an hour later
drove up to the door in buggy. Tho
buggy had the appearance of having been
hired at some livery stable and a search
for the livery stable is being made. On
this trip to the house Rosseo brought two
packages done up in heavy manila paper.
He carried them out and up into his room
one at time. They appeared TO be heavy,
and Mrs. Currie said yesterday that Rosseo
seemed very anxious to get them safely to
his room.
After he got them there, she said, he shut
and looked his door and drove away in the
buggy, returning little later on foot.
Within an hour after this he had left the
house to get Rooney the eXpressEnan to
send to his room to get the box and take
it to the Cunard pier.
The police believe that the packages
Rosseo brought to the house in the buggy
contained the dynamite that was afterward
found in the internal machine They say
that the man probably got everything else
ready before he brought the dynamite to
his room, and that when he carried 1t in on
Thursday all there was left to do was to
put it in the bottom of the box. screw the
different parts together and ship the Internal
machine away.
If there was any doubt at all that Rosseo
is the man who sent the bomb to the Cunard
pier, it was dispelled after the police made
a search of the room the man had occu-
pied. In the closet were shavlngs and saw
dust, showing that the man had done some
carpenterng. There werc also some nails
and screws, hammer and chis"l When
the trunk which was locked, was broken
ope,, il was found to contain shavings and
sawdust also splinters from pine boards
like that Of which the box was made. There
was also part OF clock. some cogwheels
and bit of a black powder fuse, precisely
like that which was in the Internal machine.
II was said vest erday that two buttons just
like the one with raised anchor and cat
boat on it which was used in the mechanism
Of he bomb, were also found N the trunk;
and American lines were found. In the
closet were a number of newspapers OF
Western and Canadian cities, some as re-
cent as late in April There were also some
April papers published in Chicago.
In a waste paper basket in the room re-
ceipt from Washington dry goods store,
showing that Rosseo had probably made a
purchase in that city, was found. Just
how much this paper tells il was impossible
to learn yesterday, as the police had con-
fiscated the paper and declined to let re-
porters look at il or TO tell what it contained.
De Belmonte. who knew the missing
Rosseo better than any other boarder in
Mrs Currie's house, gives this account
of the man:
"He was an electrician, ] am sure, because,
he spoke of being so several times. HeN
said that he had been in Mexico working
for the Edison people on a big contract
job they had down there He also said
several times hat he was n civil engineer.
He dressed plainly, bu, had plenty Of money.
He talked good English, but l rather thought
he was a Frenchman When he did talk
it was generally about his travels, and no
showed perfect knowledge of cities like
Montreal, Winnipeg. Chicago and New
Orleans He said that once he had lived
In Chicago eight years and l gathered that
he had recently come from there.
After his return from Washington last
| asked him if he had a good
time. He replied that he had a good time,
but that he had gone there for business.
not pleasure
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