The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-18

sROsseau" Admits Two Attempted
0utrages.
is A FANATIC ON one SUBJECT.
lie Greets the Witnesses Who Came From
Washington and New York TO Identity
Him as the Man Who Tried TO Blow
Up the Frederick the Great Statue at
Washington.

Philadelphia (SpeciaD .--Gessler Ros-
seau, who was arrested in this city on
Thursday with an unloadcd internal ma
chine in his possession. admitted to the
police that he is the man who attempted
to destroy the statue of Frederick the
Great in Washington last Tuesday, and
also that it was he who sent the trunk
containing an internal machine to the
British steamship Umbria, at New York,
in May, 1903.
The prisoner, whose right name is not
known, made these admissions in the
office of Captain Donaghy, of the Phila-
delphia Detective Bureau, after he had
been identified by persons brought here
from New York and Washington, for
that purpose. He gives no reasons for
the attempted outrages, except that
there are too many foreign affairs in
this country" After having Rosseau
under FIRE all afternoon, the police class
ed him as an American patriotic fanat-
ic." The prisoner gave no information
voluntarily to the police, he admitting
only those things which the police had
fastened on him. Both the Washington
and New York authorities want the
man, and il is possible that he will be
turned over TO the police of the latter
city.
The apprehension of Rosseau was due
to the disappearance of Owen Kelly, a
wealthy Irish-American, who is promi
i L. 4, ,,,
country Kelly disappeared on October
25 and from time to time the newspa-
pers, particularly of the East, have pub
lished articles on the mysterious disap-
pearance These the police believe, un-
doubtedly attracted Rosseau's attention.
On Thursday he called on Patrick
Kelly, the brother of the missing man,
and offered to take him to his brother
in New York for $500 He said he
| and Owen belonged to secret societies
that were organized for the purpose of
blowing up British ships in American
ports. The valise he carried, he said,
contained explosives. Patrick Kelly no.
tiied the police. and Rosseau was taken
into custody. The valise contained an
| Internal machine of the clock-arrange-
ment variety, but no explosives. About
the machine was wrapped a Washing
ton newspaper. This gave the police the
clue that he might know something of
the explosion at the statue Of Frederick
| the Great and his picture was taken and
sent to both the Washington and New
! York authorities. In the meantime he
was also suspected OF knowing some
thing of the steamship Umbria Incl
dent
Sunday Capt Robert Boardman, OF
the Washington detective force, and Al
fred Garter, colored. and George II. Ha-
eel, cabmen of Washington, who saw the
man who attempted to blow up the
, statue, and Detective Sergeant Arthur
Carey, of New York, and Mrs. Curry
who keeps clearinghouse in the lat
ter city, arrived here for the purpose oi
identifying the prisoner. When Ros-
seau was brought into the Office of Cap
tain Donaghy Hazel said 81 gues;
, you know me-" to which the prisoner re-
, piled "How do you do?"
Rosseau bowed 10 Carter and ther
greeted Mrs. Curry, Having satisfied
themselves beyond doubt that the iden-
tihcation was complete, the police Off
cials of the three cities set 10 work il
obtaining n confession from the pris-
oner AS stated before, he said nothing
voluntarily to incrimnate himself.
In reply to a question, he admitted th'
, attempt on the statue. He said he haC
manufactured the internal machine him
self, and that it consisted of candle
fuse and dynamite engine" Where h,
made it he would not say. 1t was hi
/ intention, he said to blow up the statu
at night because he did not want t.
> hurt anybody Because of the ice in tn
Potomac River he failed to find anyon
. who would row him from Seventh Stree
A Wharf, Washington, to the AEsena
: which is on one bank of the river. an
h he had to change his plans. The failur
to destroy the statue, he said. must hav
= been due to the melting tallow spoilin
the fuse or interfering with the dyna
mite.
Rosseau then gave the police the il
, teresting information that he had intend
. ed making a second attempt to blo'
= up the statue, this time with time-cloc
machine As it was difficult to get pas
the sentries after nightfall, he intende
going TO the arsenal about dusk. al
range the internal machine so that
o. would explode about midnight and the
. hang it OH the statue.
= This is the substance OF his admis
sion concerning the statue, according
. Captain Donaghy.