The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-18
HUNTING A JUDGE
Stranger Tries to Force Way
to ROSalsky'S Room.
Following the Sending of a
Bomb Last Saturday.

New York, March 1S.-The home of
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, of the court OF
general sessions, where a bomb deliver
ed him exploded Saturday night, was
the scene Sunday of renewed excite
ment caused by the appearance of a
man who wildly kicked at the door and
demanded admittance.
The stranger was a shabbily dressed
man who forced his way past the hall
attendants in the apartment building
on Riverside drive and climbed six
flights of stairs to see Judge Rosalsky
about some fancied persecution by the
tobacco trust.
Police were called and the man was
taken to Bellevue for observation as TO
his sanity. He gave his --ame as W of
Berman and his business that of cigar
maker.
The police believed him insane, but
harmless, and in no wise connected
with the attempt on Judge Rosalsky' s
life.
An attempt was made Saturday night
to kill Judge Rosalsky with bomb. A
defect. said to be a small accumula-
ton of dirt in the mechanism of the in
fernal machine, which the justice had
opened unsuspectingly, saved him from
death or injury.
The bomb exploded later while being
examined by Inspector Owen Egan of
the bureau of combustibles, inf1icting
severe injuries.
1t was Judge Rosalslky who sentenced
Brandt to a thirty-year tenn for burg
larry at Mortimer L. Schiff's home in
1907. Recently the judge reversed his
action.
The bomb arrived by mail and was
delivered by a postman to Judge Ros-
alsky's apartments on Riverside drive
at about 4:30 o'clock. It was accepted
by the maid, who placed it on a table
in Judge Rosalsky's library to await
his coming. The dimensions of the
package were about 6x4x4 inches. The
box was done up in brown wrapping
known department store. The address
was typewriter
Judge Opens the Box.
Judge RosaIsky reached home an hour
later and began to open the package
while talking to his wife. He took Off
the wrapper and found a plain white
pasteboard box.
Il took the cover off without the slight
est care" said the judge later. My first
glimpse at the contents of the box was
enough. I backed out of the room as
quick as my feet would carry me- calling
to my wife and brother, why it's a bomb.
It's a bomb Some one suggested that
we put the bomb in water. No. I said,
no one but an expert shall handle it.
There are some machines which go eff
when submerged in water
81 telephoned police headquarters a
special request for experts on bombs.
Egan came with David I. Kelly. superin-
tendent of the bureau of combustibles.
Egan went to work. He took out a little
wad of tissue paper I was called to the
telephone. A moment later l heard the
bomb explode. I rushed in and found
Egan staggering about. The index finger
of his hand had been blown off and the
whole hand mangled. His face was full
of wounds and his forearms and left hand
were terribly lacerated-
After Inspector Egan was taken to
hospital Judge Rozalsky was asked if nc
believed the Brandt case had anything 10
do with the bomb. He replied: II refuse
to answer. What do you tilink?'
The judge mentioned a sentence of
twelve years he recently imposed On
Charles CarIessi, a forger- A few days
before Carlessi was sentenced the court