The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-23
SAYS He SENT
BOMB TO JUDGE
FROM THIS CITY
MAN ARRESTED IN JACKSON.
WILLIE SAYS HE MAILED IN
FERNAL MACHINE HERE.
1t Mas Sent to Judge Rosalsky in
New York Few Days Aeo-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 mans
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-
vannah to this city aARd 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 ever seeing
him here. However, the statement
that the bomb was sent from, Bruins
wick has attracted considerable atten.
ton and has brought this city into
the case. The Jacksonville Times
Union of yesterday contained full
page about the arrest of the man, and
in part says
The world has not treated me
right. | am against everybody l
tried to kill Judge Otto A. Rosalsky
when / sent that bomb to him from
Brunswick, Ga, and if had chance
| would kill him now said Fred
Pierce, alias Fred Newsom, alias
Joseph Newsom, 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 had 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 charge of being a va
grant, his third arrest in the recent
few weeks on like charges. Yester-
day re began to make general con-
fession 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
bomb concealed as an ordinary
package or gift through the mails to
Judge Rosalsky.
Close attention was paid to his
narrative of the affair. In number
of details he made assertions which
point to him as a man with mental
affliction rather than criminal. This
was mainly in the fact that he claim
ed ne sent the bomb to the New York
jurist from Brunswick, Ga, through
the outhern Express company.
when he was asked if he sent this
direct to the man he claimed he yant-
ed 10 kill, he replied at first in the
affirmative. Later he made several re-
marks which indicate he sent it TO a.
pal n New York, who in turn mailed
it in that city.
Later in the night, the prisoner
stated that he remembered distinctly
having sent the package by mail. In
his statements during the .Eternoon
he claimed that he was partially
drunk when he sent the package off
and could recall none Of the immedi-
ate facts Of that day, except in his
lea ging Brunswick for Jacksonville.
He was first arrested here on March
IL, four days in advance Of the pack
age icing received in New York. Fol-
lowing this arrest he was given a
term of several days in the city jail
on charge Of, drunkenness.
'T will be willing to go back to New
York and plead guilty If they will let
me tell Judge Rosalsky what / think
him for sentencing Faulke T.. 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 Brandt case and a new trial being !
granted the defendant, who had been
sentenced by Rosalsky five years ago
to a servitude OF thirty years. on
charge Of robbing Jacob II. Schiff, a |
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 OF his being double
crossed" by detectives"