The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

Philadelphia, January 15.-The man
tempting to blow up the Frederick the
Great monument in Washington. has
made a confession. He said the failure
To destroy the statue of Frederick the
Great must nave been due to the melt
ing tallow spelling the fuse or inter
fering with the dynamite. Rosseau
said he had intended to make a sec
ond attempt to blow UP the statue.
this time with a time-clock machine.
AS it was difficult to get past the SEN
tries after night, he intended going to
the arsenal at about dusk, arranging
the internal machine SO that it would
explode about midnight, and then hang
it or the statue. This is the substance
of his admission concerning the statute,
according to Captain Donaghy.
Regarding the sending of an internal
machine to the steamship Umbria.
Rosseau said chat the police report of
all his movements after the Umbria
incident up to the time they lost track
Of him was correct. Where he had
been between May, 1903, and last week,
he will not say, always replying. That
is for you to find out"
He said tina he made part of the
Umbria Internal machine in Chicago,
| and then took 1t in a trunk to New
| York, where he finished making it.
He admitted writing the note to Police
Commissioner Greene, which read:
The Malta greets you and wishes you
we'll. The society has declared war
| against England and has ordered the
destruction of every steamer flying
the British flag that sails out Of New
York. The society has undertaken to
clear New York harbor of british ships.
and it will succeed"
1t was this note of warning which
led to the finding of the I'll before
it was placed on the steamship. Ros-
seau also admitted obtaining the dyna-
/ mite Jul in the trunk on the strength
of the name Of a contractor The pris-
oner was closely questioned in regard to
the Umbria incident, but to all ques-
tons he made non-committal reply.
He said he was born in America and
that he was a fermer. Where in Amer
lea he was born and where his present
| home is, he would not say. He adj
mitted his name was not "Gessler Ros-
seau." He said he had read much and
ne was a student of social economy.
He took the name of "Gessler Rosseau''
| because two of his ideals had those
names-Albrecht Gessler, the Swiss
dictator, who tradition says, was killed
by William Tell in 1907. and Jean JAG
| ques Rousseau, the French philoso-
pher and writer, who died in 1888.
Captain Donaghy Ia Rosseau would
say nothing of the owen Kelly at
fair, and the police believe he knows
nothing about it. He was silent re-
garding the mysterious societies he
| spoke for d%ynamiting ships, and would
not incriminate any n
The police, after they concluded their
"sweating'' process, expressed h be-
lief that he is what they term an
american patriotic fanatic" hat he
is sane on every subject except those
Of an International character. Ros-
seau will be kept here for the present.
AS the Internal machine found in his
possession was not loaded, he COM
mitted no crime. He is held for at
tempting to extort money from Pat
rick Kelly under false pretences. AS
the Washington authorities were the
first to identify him, he is claimed by
them, but they may give way to New