The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-23
SAYS He SENT
BOMB To JUDGE
FROM THIS CITY
MAN ARRESTED IN JACKSON
VILE SAYS HE MAILED IN
FERNAL MACHINE HERE.
1t Was Sent to Judge EosaIsky in
New York a Few Days Ago-No
One in This City Knows Anything
About the Man.

About the Man.
Fred Pierce, alias Fred Newsom
arrested in Jacksonville THURSDAY
charged with sending an Internal ma
chine to Judge Otto A. Rosalsky. in
New York, claimed that he is the
guilty man and that the bomb was
sent by him from this city Whether
or not there is any truth in the man S
statement, is not known, but he is be-
ing held in Jacksonville awaiting fur
ther developments. In a statement
which he made after he had been ar
rested he said that he came from Sa-
vannlh to this city and while here
sent the dangerous machine to the
New York jurist. Nothing is known
of Newsom in Brunswick, and no one
in the city remembers eyer seeing
him here However, the statement
that the bomb was sent from Bruns-
wick has attracted considerable atten-
ton and has brought this city into
Union of yesterday contained a full
page about the arrest of tho man, and
in part says:
- The world has not treated me
right | am against everybody |
tried to kill Judge Otto A. Rosalsky
when l sent that bomb to him from
Brunswick, Ga, and if l had chance
would kill him now said Fred
Pierce, alias Fred Newsom, alias
Joseph Newsom, a prisoner at police
headquarters yesterday who admits
he Possesses so many names that he
would have to think long time to
remember his right one.
He lad reference in the statement
made to the sending of an Internal
machine to Judge Otto A. Rosalsky
Of the court Of general sessions, New
York city, on the afternoon of March
16.
The prisoner was arrested here on
Bay street by Policeman Clyde H..
Dawson on a charge of being a va
grant, his third arrest in the recent
few weeks on like charges. Yester-
day Ie began to make general con-
fessi1n of larceny cases about the
city, of being an escaped convict from
Savannah, Of having robbed the Uni
ted States mails at one time in his
life and last of all, Of having sent
Il bomb concealed as an ordinary
package or gifJ through the mails to
Judge Rosalsky.
Close attention was paid to his
narrative of the affair. In number
of details lie made assertions which
point to him as a man with a menta
afflic.iOn rather than a criminal. This
was mainly in the fact that he claim
ed le sent the bomb to the New YOrF
jurist from Brunswick, Ga, through
the southern Express company.
when he was asked if he sent thi.
direct to the man he claimed he yant-
ed 10 kill, he replied at first in thu
Affirmative. Later he made several re
marks which indicate he sent it to
pal II New York, who in turn mailed
it in that city
La-er in the night, the prisone
stated that he remembered distinct,
having sent the package by mail. Il
his statements during the [ternool
/ he claimed that he was PARTIAL.
drunk when he sent the package Of
and could recall none Of the immcdj
ate facts of that day, except III hi
( lea ling Brunswick for jacksonville
He las first arrested here on Marcel
u, four days in advance of the PACK
age Icing received in New York. Fol
loving this arrest hc was given d
term OF several days in the city jail
on a charge Of drunkenness
Il will be willing TO go back to Ne"
Yors and plead guilty if they will let
me tell Judge Rosalsky what tn uk
him for sentencing Faulke +. Brandt
to prison for thirty years when they
promised TO give him just six months
if he pleaded guilty said the prFs-
oner last night.
He then went into the details OF
the randi case and new trial being
granted the defendant, who had been
sentenced by Rosalsky five years ago
to a servitude of thirty years on a
char1e of robbing Jacob II. Schiff, a
millionaire. When he was Informed
that the attitude OF the New York
court seemed to lean toward Brandt
having unusual favors Of trial, the
prisoner stated that the judge knew
all along that Brandt was an innocent
man and knew ot his being double
crossed" by detectives"