New-York tribune., 1905-01-16
DYNAMITER C0NFESSES.
TO BE BROUGHT HERE.
Umbria ard Statue Charges
-Infernal Machine Crank.

In this city and Washington Ciessier Rosseau
who was arrested in Philadelphia on Thursday
with an Internal machine. confessed yesterday
to the police that he che man who sent an
internal machine to the Cunard Line pier here
last May and tried TO blow uD the statue OF
Frederick the Great in Washington last Tues
day He declared that he was preparing for
another attempt To destroy the statue, but
would give no reason. save that there was
no room for such sentiment in this country"
lie is an American The police believe that
he is deranged on International topics and tries
10 bring them his idea os right with the gen
tie suason of dynamite.
RoSseau viii probably be brought here in a
few days for trial on The Umbria case. IN
spector McClusky this morning win hear a
port from Detective Sergeant Arthur Cary, who
went to Philadelphia and obtained ROsseaus
confession This report the Inspector win lay
before District Attorney Jerome. and an indict-
ment viii probably be found against the dyna-
miter. who Will then DC extradfted 70 this city.
The police Of Washington and Philadelphia feel
| inclined TO yield liu to tha Jurisdiction of the
officials here, because Ee could be punished IN
Philadelphia ONLY f,- t,c sttempt to- cxtort
money in connection vi,A the owen Kelly csse.
which brought him into the hands OF the police.
/ The Washington offence would he punishable
only 10y SOME SIX months Imprisonment while
here the affair is ~ felony. The charge against
him would be under section 6+5 Of the Criminal
Code. which makes it "a felony for any person
to leave explosives i'm or near any public build
ing or place where lives would be endangered
by their explosion.
The police of the three cities were represented
yesterday when Rosseau made his confession.
a confession only in that it was an acknowI-
edgment of the truth of deductions OF the pO-
/ lice He answered question willingly. save
/ those about his Internal machines. Of them he
was willing to taIk-so willing that the police
/ think he is slightly daft as to explosives. He
/ would tell nothing Of his motive I'm sending the
1 dynamite box to the Umbria's pier and about
/ as little of the statue episode 1t is the police
/ theory that he has been attending anarchist
meetings and taking commissions to destroy
| anything. from ship statue to a king
| but through squeamishness or lack OF ability
has never done the destroying
/ Detective Sergeant Cary left this city for
/ Philadelphia yesterday, taking with him Mrs
| Mary Currie the woman with whom Rosseau
/ boarded. at No. 500 West Thirty-frst-st. when
| the Umbria affair happened Captain Robert
Boardman of the Washington Detective Bureau.
| and Captain DoDaghy, OF the Philadelphia bu-
| reau met Sergeant Cary. With him. Captain
| Boardman had Alfred Garter. a negro. and
George E. Hazel cabuen, who saw the man who
| tried to blow up the statue of Frederick the
! Great Rosseau was taken into Captain Don
aghy's Office. Immediately he bowed low 70
/ Mrs. Currie.
You seem to know Mrs. Currie'' remarked
| Sergeant Cary, to which Rosseau replied:
"Oh yes; I lived at her house
! Il guess you know me, too" said Hazel
/ How do you do" said Rosseau-
/ Then we began to examine him." said Ser
geant Cary last night after his return. He
wary all right; he would hardly reply to a
direct question, but we got him to talking about
his Internal machines. and he would branch out
other subjects before he thought In that
way I got him to admit that he had sent the
letter of warning to Commissioner Greene after
he had refused at first 10 talk about it.
He said that he had attempted to blow up
the statue of Frederick the Great. He made
the machine himself with a candle. a fuse and
the dynamite He had twenty-six pounds OF
dynamite in it, he said, but we couldn't get him
to tell where he made the machine He in
tended to blow up the statue at night at first.
but he couldn't get anybody 10 row him across
the river to the arsenal because Of the ice in
the river, so he changed to the cab plan He
didn't know just why he hadn't succeeded with
the statue. but thought the talIOw from the
candle might have interfered with the fuse. He
intended to try again he said, with the Internal
machine he had when he was captured That
l examined twas very much like the one he
sent to the Umbria. IL had the clockworb
and the dry battery just the same, but there
I
He said he'd got the dynamite here on the
name of an Italian contractor just
learned that the man who sent the bomb 10
the Ombrlas pier had done He told about
getting the 5XPTessman Dillon TO take his trunk
to Mrs. Currie's and hiring Battle, ROOney's
driver, to take the dynamite box to the Um-
bria's pier. He made part of the machine in
Chicago. he said, and when I asked him why
he didn't put il in the trunk he bought there
when he had the boards all cut out for it, he
said the trunk wasn't strong enough
Il asked him about the letter TO Commissioner
i felt he 10 wa
found a pad of paper just like the paper that
was written in his room. At first he said
he'd better not talk about that at all. but after
1 got him talking about dynamite 1 asked him
what time he mailed the letter TO the Commis-
The postmark'u show, won't it?' says he.
Yes 1 suppose it would I said, bur there
was a special delivery stamp on the letter
Oh. yes says he, 1 cid put special de-
livery stamp on it,
'.Rosseau wouldn't tell much about himself
He said he American, and his speech
and actions look like it, He was a farmer. he
said. but he wouldn't tell where he kept his
farm. He'd lived all over the country. Gessler
ROsseau was not his name; he took that name
from AIbrecht Gessler. the Swiss Dictator and
Jean Jacques Rousseau, two Of his favorite his
torical characters.
The Philadelphia police don't believe he knew
anything about the owen Kelly case. and
can't find out that he ever had anything to do
with any Feuiau socigty. ] don't think he had
anything 10 do with the Narouic affair He
seems to me like man with a bug for ex-
plosives and machinery over there they think
hes been making his living by taking cOmrnis-
sio0s from the anarchists to do jobs, i'm which
he would do ali but the most important part
He said that all we'd found out about the
TTmbria affair right He wouldn't tel
where he went after he left this city. though.
He Acknowledged that he'd lived in Chicago,
Portland. ore; Butte, Mont and other places.
He said he'd bought camera in Butte 0ust
7 traced the can-era case 70 that cityl and
Acknowledged buying trunk in ChicasO
the present RCESe9U VIII be held ~