The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-13
6NcClasky Expects Arrest of
G. RosSeau, Who Sent Bor
to Cunard Pier, Within
TbeiVe Hours.
Mfscreant S Movements Habe
Been Traced From Tine He
Engaged Board in West
Ihrty-Ffrst Street.

NEW YORK. May 1$-The police be
heVe they know the man who sent the
mysterious Internal machine to the
Cunard Line pier, and his capture is
said to be but matter OF hours
He is known as G. Rosseau, and had
been boarding at SOS West Thirty-frst
Street since April %. It was from this
house that he sent the box containing
the dynamite, and the men who con-
Veyed it there were ignorant of its con-
tents. Rosseau called at Joseph
Rooney's express office. Thirtieth Street
and Ninth Avenue, Saturday, and en-
gagged cne of his wagons to take the
machine 20 the Cunard pier. The wagon
men were Peter Battle. driver, and Jo-
seph Mccormick and Frank Carton. as
sistants, and despite the statements OF
the Cunard Line employees, they do not
look like italians. neither do they speak k
with "a decidedly foreign accent"
Rosseau Disappeared.
After he sent the letter of warning
to police headquarters Saturday, Ros-
seau left his boarding house and has
not since returned. The fact thai Ros-
seau was the maker and sender of the
machine was discovered by his Iandlady
Mrs. Currie. who found two buttons
Identical with the one used in the ma
chiRe, in his room She informed the
police, who searched the room, and in a
trunk found shavings, sawdust, part Of
the works of a clock, several short pow
der fuses. and a. piece of paraffine paper
Inspector McClusky found in a waste
basket a number of scraps of writing
paper similar TO that on which the let
ter of warning was written. He also
claims that the scraps contained writ
ing by the same hand as that which
penned the note received by General
Greene. Only three or four words were
legible- They were in Franch and con
tanned the admonition, "Be careful
The Box Identified.
Mrs. Currie identified the packing l51x
which contained the Internal machine
as similar TO one delivered to her board
er on May T. Two days before, she says.
Rosseau drove uD to the house in a
buggy, ana carried two heavy packages
to his room. These. the police believe,
contained the dynamite. Inspector Nc
Clusky says he will have Rosseau under
arrest within twelve hours
Battle. who drove the wagon which
conveyed the box to the Cunard pier,
has not yet recovered from the fright
he received when he learned the con-
tents of the box he had so careIessly
handled. He and Mccormick, in lifting
the BOX out of the wagon, accidentally
dropped It. 1t hit the edge of the pier
with such force as TO chip a corner off
the box. The dynamite behaved in the
usual unexpected manner and let the
careless expressmen escape.
Declines TO Give Name.
81 had no memorandum of the mans
name said Battle. When I asked him
for il he said I did not need it He gave
US a quarter to take the box TO the pier.
And me sitting on box of dynamite and
not knowing what was under me! And
then, say, think of dropping that box of
dynamite, No more dropping of boxes
for me-"
Rosseau is described as a middle aged
man of pleasant address. five feet six or
seven inches tall, weighs about 145
pounds. and is between forty and forty
five years of age. His hair is dark and
he has rather a dark, thin face. and a
thin, high nose. He also has a close
clipped mustache of light color
The boarding house 366 West Thirty
first Street was formerly headquarters
OF LAP Adams, the policy king