Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-17
ROUSSEAU TRIED
To WRECK UMBR|A
so ASctRTS DETECTIVE, WHO
SAYS cE HAS PROOF
lnsooetar cs-lsree He Has Evidence
Which viii sero she Man to
~ son sot Ten
Y,s~s a Ar
Rv Assnclaltd Press.

By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 16--Police oficials
Of this city hope to have possession ot
gessler Rousseau. now under arrest in
Philadelphia, by the middle of the
week. Inspector McCmsky chief of
the detective bureau. asserts he has
sn1icient evidence in the Umbria infer
nal machine affair 10 convict Rousseau
of felony and senu him to prison for
a ten-year term. The inspector s
anxious also to see if he can connect
Rousseau with the mysterious dlsap-
pearance some years ago Of the steamer
Naronic, in which many lives were
lott
Stored at police headquarters the in
apoetor has a bundle of papers AMI
5tner articles which were taken from
Rousseaus room in Mrs. Currie's
boarding house OF the time he disap-
peored from New York. The nature
Of this find has never been made public,
AID the inspector says it may go long
way toward clearing up tn. mystery
which now surrounds Rousseau, The
internal machine sent to the Umbria
has been preserved and will be brought
into the Inspector office TO-DAY to be
used as evidence.
Speaking of the Umbria affair the in
spector said:
1--WE found box of Illuminating caps
in Rousseau's room in Thirty-frst
street after he had disappeared. One
of these caps, properly adjusted, was
all that was lacking in the machine to
make it effective as an engine of de-
struction. We also found in his room
a number of papers and documents
which may lead 20 important discov-
cries, now that we have captured him.
"It will probably be four or five days
before we can so through the legal
formalities to secure Rcusseau's extra
dition and bring him to New York. In
the meantime 1 am hopeful that some
thing tangible will be learned from
the effects found upon him in Phila-
delphia or from papers or other arti-
cles left in the room where he
stopped, something that will enable us
to ascertain what his recent move
ments have been and what association,
if any, he has had.
up to date we have been unable to
find any living being who has ever
been associated with Rousseau. He is
as mysterious as the Wandering
Jew"
The disappearance of the steamer
Naronic is one of the mysteries of the
Atlantic. She was a freighter with
nearly 100 men aboard and sailed in
February, 1898. from Liverpool for New
York The vessel was only one year
old.
From the day she cleared the Mersey |
no trace of her was found. In the fall |
of 1898 a Norwegian bark when sew
eral hundred miles southwest of the
Azores, picked up parts of the wreck
age OF what was believed to be one of |
the liners lifeboats. Again in the sum- |
mer Of 1896 the fate of the Naronic was
recalled when a boatman picked up in
the Irish channel a bottle that con-
tanned a note that read as follows:
Struck iceberg; sinking fast; Mar
onic. Young
Fow people believed the bottled mes
sage was genuine.
Several physicians, prominent as
alienists, visited Rousseau. in his cell
today to determine his mental condi-
ton.
Rousseau was not told of the errand
OF the visitors but was left to infer
that they We're detectives. After the
examination the physicians withdrew
and told Captain of Detectives Dom
aghy that Rousseau was perfectly sane
upon all points except anarchy and
dynamiting.