The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Was Sent Through Mail to
Judge Rosalsky
A POLICE INSPECTOR HURT
Judge Rosalsky Is the Man Who Sen
fenced Brandt to Imprisonment-He
Was in Another Room When the
Machine Exploded.

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bomb, in construction much like the
bomb that killed Grace Walker at 1903
I West Seyenty-seventh street on Febru.
airy B. was delivered by mail, as hers
I was, to Judge Otto A. Rosalsky Sat
urday afternoon at the Hendrix Hudson,
Riverside drive and 10th street, and ex.
ploded in his library, severely iniuring
an inspector from the bureau OF com
bustibles, who had been sent to examine
it. The library was wrecked. Judge
Rosalsky had partly opened the package
first, but had desisted when he saw
electric batteries in il and had notified
the police
Judge Rosalsky said he was confident
that the bomb was not sent by Italians
When he was asked If he thought it had
any connection directly or indirectly
with the Brandt ease, he refused to say
anything.
The bomb was delivered along with
other mail through the usual channels
Of apartment house routine. The PACK
age containing it, with the rest of Judge
Rosalsky's mail, was left at the apart
ment house office at 4:30 p. m. by car
rier from Station II at l02d street. At
vator boy, who in turn handed it TO
Clara Fish, colored maid, at the door
Of Judge Rosalsky's apartment. The
Judge was out, and the maid put all the
mail on Judge Rosalsky's table in the
library. This room is at the extreme
end Of long hall and overlooks the
Hudson.
The package was wrapped in yellow
manila paper which bore the imprint
OF the Fourteenth Street store. II was
addressed in typewriter to the "Hou.
Otto A. Rosalsky. Hendrix Hudson
Apartments, Broadway and 10th street,
New York The typewriting was d.
rectly on the manila paper The whole
parcel WAS about five inches square aud
three and one-half inches high.
Judge Opens the Box.
The package remained undisturbed on
the library table until sis o'clock, when
Judge Rosalsky came in. He went d-
rectly to the library and glanced over
the mail When he came to the pack
age, he cut the string which was about
il and unwrapped the paper. Within
there was a pasteboard box of the usual
white paper covered cardboard. The box
was Of much the same sort as is used
for half-pound orders of candy or brieked
ice cream.
Judge Rosalsky began to lift the
cover and noticed that il resisted little. |
This sticking of the cover on so frail u
box aroused his suspicion and be said
that he thought at once,
That's a bomb"
Standing up and leaning well back
ward with his face partly turned away, |
the Judge then stretched his arm out TO
full length and gingerly raised the cover
a trile. Little BY little he raised il /
until he could slide 1t off.
The opened box revealed a piece OF
iron pipe an inch in diameter with Il
in it, Strengthened out, the
pipe would have measured about seven
inches in length On each side of the |
section Of the pipe was small dry bat |
terry, connected by wires with a fulmi- |
mating cap. Lying on top OF the appar- |
atus was small package done up in It's
sue paper q little after the manner of
druggists in putting up powders.
On the under side of the cover near /
the center was glued q small piece of /
cork-a section threeeighths of an inch |
deep cut from cork of an inch diam /
eter. The purpose OF this bit Of cork |
was to act as a buffer. An
other buffer was glued to one of the I
corners OF the cover. This was trl-
angular piece Of pine lh inches deep.
Judge Rosalsky backed out of the
room as soon as he had had a good I
look at the contents Of the box and
called up police headquarters on the
telephone One policemen arrived in u
few minutes. followed by six or seven
others. Two of them were uniformed /
policemen The others were detectives
from the West l25th street STATEN I'M
der command of Detective Captain Tun-
ney.
When the policemen entered one Of
them moved to pick up the box lying
on the library table Judge Rosalsky
saying: Don't touch that
unless you know a good deal about
bombs / don't want your life endan-
yered."
The detective laughed and started
again to pick up the package. Judge
said afterward that all tie
policemen seemed ready enough to look
INTO the box of their own accord, but
hat he demurred, since none of them
was an expect in explosives.
One of the policemen then telephones
% the bureau of combustbles and the
bomb remained on the table until In
ipector Owen Eagan arrived little after
! o'clock.