The sun., 1903-05-15
DYNAMITER'S WEEKIN CHICAGO
M'CLUSkY THERE. FOLLOWING
4. BROAD TRAIL BACKWARD.
As to the Trail Forward Police Are Silent
Little Doubt That the Internal Ma
chine Was Partly Constructed in
Chicago and Then Tinkered Here.

chine Was Partly Constructed in
Chicago and Then Tinkered Here.
CHICAGO, May 14.-Worlfing under cover
in a Chicago flat building, a man known
here as 4G. Russell" manufactured part Of
the internal machine which the New York
police found after he wrote to them that
he had sent it to the Cunard pier. The
New York detectives found that the trunk
in which the machine was shipped to New
York bore Parmelee Express check, No.
2224i5. The police traced this back TO
Chicago and from the Wabash station in
Chicago to the lower fiat at 2s7 Washington
Boulevard.
Inspector McClusky Of New York reached
this city to-day, accompanied by Detec-
tive Sergeants Funston and Carey, to fol-
low up the Chicago end Of the dynamite
plot and found that the newspapers had
been ahead Of him. McClusky said he
was convinced that the machine was made
in Chicago at oS7 Washington Boulevard,
and that Russell is the man wanted by
the New York police.
The detective sergeants who came with
Inspector McClusky will remain in Chicago
to work on the case. The y had long in
terview with Lieut.. Rohan at headquarters
Immediately after their arrival. Inspector
McClusky returned to New York to might.
John Clarke. a machinist at SO Morgan
street, believes he assisted in the manu-
facture of the internal machine.
Some tim, ago." Clarke said, "a man
came here and said he wished our assist
ance in making a gambling machine. We
made him a conc with an inch base and
disk to fit it.
j w. Seymour, who has a carpenter
shop almost directly across the street from
where Russell roomed.' said to-day that in
the week Russell occupied apartments
across the street from his shop man an
swering his description occasionally brought
small pieces Of Stats to have then planed
down Seymour planed down four strips
of wood about twenty inches long one day
that week for him.
-The man said he had patent of some
kind" said one of Mr.. Seymours carpen-
ters. Il believe he said it was gambling
device"
Mrs Ehlen, who rented the room to Rus
SELL said that she remembered seeing these
Stats in Russells room, and that after he
left she found the ends and used them for
kindlng wood. Other rhings Mrs. Ehlen
found were bits of clock works. including
a hair spring and the case Of clock ana
a cartridge shell from which the illuminate
cap had been taken out.
These articles had been left in wooden
box about ~ inches long on which, Mrs
Ehlen saws, were inscribed similar words
To -one blast" or @one Charge
Russell came to the Ehlens on April 10
and said that he had seen the Rooms TO
rent" sign in the window. He agreed to
pay 50 fer the front room ard stay week.
but gave no name. On Tuesday morning
he purchased a cheap zinc trunk Mrs.
Ehlen says she noticed that he carried
many tools and considerable material into
an inventor he said that he was. On Wednes-
day morning he brought in new clock
and when Mrs. Ehlen went in to care for
the room Thursday morning the case alone
was in sight, the works having been re-
moved.
He was always filing or pounding
Mrs. Ehen said. -He worked all day,
and in the evenings went out and returned
at 10 o'clock when he would take up his
work again and keep, at IL until past mid
the tray Sf the trunk and l cut 1t up for
kirdling.'
Russell left Chica 60 on April rs for New
York. The trunk he took with him was
purchased of the American Storage and
Van Company, 246 West Madison street.
s. Z. Barr, who sold the trunk, gives de-
scription of the purchaser fitting that of
Rosseo. The number of the trunk was eos
The number will be found on the bottom
of the trunk" ss Id he. I'VE always humber
If the New York police examine the trunk
closely they can determine positively
whether it is Russell's trunk"
The New York police have rot said a
word about the case since McClusky's
disappearance ct noon on Wednesday,
If they trace the man backward lar enough
they may get some clue as to where he has
gone in the other direction.
When he left for Chicago, Inspector
the dynimter in the Washington Boule-
vard fiat He had discovered on Tuesday
night that Rosseo 8 trunk had been brought
to Mrs. Currie's boarding house from the
West Shore Depot at the foot Of West
Forty-second street by an e1pressman
named Dillon, who has an Office on Ninth
avenue, between Thirty-first and Thirty
second streets. Dillon remembered it, and
FROM his books was able to give the check
number. McClusky found by wiring the
had come from the Washington Boulevard
fa,. Ten, after warning Dillon TO say
nothing, he started for, Chicago,
The police have tried to trace the buggy
in West Thir,y y-first street, with two pack
ages, supposed to have been dynamite, the
day he sent the internal machine to the
Cunard pier. Livery stable keepers in, this
CITY and in Jersey City and Hoboken, have
been questioned about the buggy.
Expressman Dillon said Yesterday that
Rosseo called on him on April 2s, which
was the day after he arrived at Mrs, Cur
rie's boarding house. and sent after his
trunk.
There were some storage charges on the
trunk and Rosseo decided TO pay them
himself SO he went to the depot with Frank
Butts. the driver. As the two passed the
West Shore Hotel, at the southeast corner
of Tenth avenue and Forty-second street,
P,nseo remarked to Butts that he had
spent a night in that hotel He paid the
siorar "a charges on the trunk and then
drove back TO his boarding house, helping
the expressrnan to carry the trunk to his
room.
search Of the register OF the West Snore
Hotel shows that number Of people stop
there every night. If Rosseo stopped
there after lie got to New York he registered
under some other name. On April 20
two men occupied the same room in the
hotel. One registered as Edward Andrea
OF Holden Mo-. and the other John A.
Ruby OF Niagara. Andrea is said to be
we'll known orthopedic surgeon.
Whether Rosseo made his machine in Chi
cago or not, no certainly did a good deal
of work on IL after he got it to Mrs. Currie's
house. pawnbroker named Levy, at AL
Eighth avenue, said yesterday that Rosseo
came into his store early last week and
bought a saw and pair OF wire cutters
from him He also wanted some insulated
wire, but Levy had none to suit him.
A story was published yesterday after
noon TO the effect that on another Of those
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