New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
TOOK BOMB TO UMBRIA.t
ROSSEAU IDENTIFIED.
Also Tried to Wreck Statue of Fred
erick the Great.

Gessler Rosseau. who arrested IN PhfIa4
delphia with Internal machine. was identi-
hed yesterday. not only the man who. II -
believed. sought to destroy the Cunarder Um-
bria in May. 1908. but also as the man who
placed bomb near the statue OF Frederick tho
Great in Washington on last Tuesday afternoon.
While the report that Rosseau was the IN
known who sought to tamper with the
cradle OF tho United States battleship Connec-
ticut Is generally discredited, it seems reason
able to assume that the Philadelphia prisoner
is able TO furnish the solution to at least sew
eral other mysteries OF kindred nature. Fur
ther disclosures are expected hourly.
Rosseau. according to Inspector McClusky. OF
the Detective Bureau. has been positively iden-
tilted the man responsible for the Umbria
affair by Mrs. Curry. the landlady OF board
ing house at No 1886 West Thirty-hrst-st-.
where Rosseau lived. and further by Peter Bach.
the expressman. who took the box containing
the Internal machine to the pier. Moreover.
says Inspector McCIusky. Peter Dillon and
Frank Bates have also identified Rosseau's pict-
as that OF the man whose trunk they car
ried to the boarding house.
Rosseau's photograph was likewise identified
by three persons IN Washington yesterday
that OF the man who placed a bomb on the fence
surrounding Tire statue OF Frederick the Great
Vernon H. Brown, the agent OF the Cunard
Lire. said yesterday that he would take no ac-
tion on the Umbria affair. as it was IN the hands
of the police. and they would tans the necessary
steps If Rosseau was a dangerous fanatic he
should be locked up
The stories OF the sending of ths Internal ma
chine to the Umbria were much masnifed The
trunk was sent to the pier. and did not get on
board. 1t was the pier awaiting a claimant.
and would never have been sent on board until IA
had been identified by the owner. The stoar~-
ship officials did not know whether it was svav
the mans intention to blow up the UnbrIa.
1t was said at Inspector MoClusky's oraos thas
several persons who lived at the house where
Rosseau boarded would be sent immediately to
Philadelphia to identity him. II the prisoner
was identified effort would be made by tha
Detective Bureau to bring him here.
| Friends IN this city OF Owen Kelly, tho
wealthy Philadelphian who disappeared on oc-
| tober 25. believe that Rosseau knows whers
| Kelly Is Rosseau's arrest was brought about
by his approaching Patrick Kelly in Phnadel-
| phia and offering to produce Owen Kelly fog
$500
/ Francis Ndulgrew, who Is a cousin Of the
| missing Kelly. and lives at No. 151 West Sixty
| third-st-. yesterday poohpoohed the idea that
| Kelly was held under restraint by an Irish So
ciety to which Rosseau and Kelly belonged. He
| declared that the missing man had not a singls
1 enemy in the society.
"On Thursday received a long distance tele-
| phone message from Patrick Kelly. saying that
! Rosseau and himself would arrive IN New York
at 10 O'Clock on Friday morning" said Mr.. BIul-
/ grew, Il E.rTanged to meet them at the Penn
| syIyania st alton at that hour. In the mean time
| 1 went TO Police Headquarters and arranged for
| one of the Central once men TO go with me TO
/ the station In case anything should go smiss.
At the last moment. however. received tele-
| gram from Patrick Kelly saying that RosseaU
/ / ad been arrested. While do not take much
| stock in Rosseau's story that he produces
| Owen Kelly I am sorry the Philadelphia police
1 interfered. because 1 should have liked to see
/ what would happen
| Rosseau. when arrested. declared that he be-
| longed to "the same Irish society Owen
/ Kelly
| One OF the officials OF the Brooklyn navy yard
| who had charge Of the launching Of the Con-
necticut and also figured prominently In the in-
vestigation after the attempts to wreck her
| said last night that one was under suspicion.
/ declaring that he had never heard OF Rosseau-