Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-25
LETTER MAY Be
CLEW TO BOMB.
Delaney kicoll Receives a
Threat Through the Mail.

New York, March 25.-Thst a second
bomb was sent a few days ago to
Judge Rosalsky and that a threaten
ing letter has been received by De
lancy Nicoll, a lawyer who has taken
a prominent part in the recent Brandt
Schia case, has Just become known to
the public. That the Nicoll letter may
be a ciew that viii help solve the mys
terry of the identity of the sender of the
two bombs to Judge Rosalsky was In
dicated by the precautions. with which
the police were guarding the informa-
ton they possess and the alertness with
which they were following every
lead" that the cases seemed to pre-
sent. 1t is said that the letter semi to
Mr.. Nfcoll was mailed at the same time
as the latest Rosalsky bomb.
Deputy Commissioner Dougterty re,
fused to discuss the second bomb sent
to Judge Rosasky, but he would not
deny that his men were working to ar
rest the sender. Judge Rosalsky said
that all information concerning the
bomb must come from the police.
The second bomb mailed to Judge
Rosalsky, it is said, was similar in con
struction to the one received at his
apartments in the Hendr.ek Hudson,
Riverside drive and One Hundred and
Tenth street, q week ago.
The bomb was mailed at some dis
tant p~ostoflce and was received on
Wednesday last in Postal Station Fl. In
One Hundred and Second street. near
Amsterdam avenue. The receipt of
the package in the postal station was
called to the attentfon Of the postal
inspectors who had been assigned to
watch all packages that came through
the mail.
They Immediately got in commune
cation with Commissioner Dougherty
The latter, with Inspector Hughes.
called on Judge Rosalsky at the crimi
courts building and had a LONG con
ference with him. They persuaded the
Judge, 1T was learned, to permit two
detectives to guard him on his way to
from the courthouse.
Because of the fact that the c
bomb was turned over to the police In
tact 1t is thought that some cIew ma,
be obtained from it that will lead to
the Identification of the sender. In or
der that nothing unexpected might
happen to cause this bomb to explode.
thHs destroying all the marks on 1t.
great care was taken in opening the
package at the bureau of combustibles.
where 1t was taken by Commissioner
Everything about tits
post marks, typewriting, possible
finger marks, etc.-was first made note
before any attempt was made to
open 1t.
After all this was done the package
was carefully unwrapped and was
found to contain O cleyerly constructed
Internal machine, which had 1t been
by any but an expert would
undoubtedly exploded with dead
y effect.
The threatening letter sent to De
,ancey Nieoll was received at the lat
,er's home on Thursday afternoon and
turned over to the police on Friday
morning.
In the letter the writer gave instruc-
lions that the $4,000 he demanded
should be placed in a package and be
ready for delivery to him when he
called at the Nicoli residence between
and 8 o'clock Saturday, afternoon.
poljoan,ap uaro uyafohfno In fba pai0b
borhood at the time, but no one who
suspicious put In IN appear
ance.
Delaney Nicoll gave a statement
of the circumstances OF the re-
of the letter threatening his life
IL he did not pay the $4,000 which
was demanded. He said that the let.
ter had not alarmed him at all, for Ii
was not the first time a threat had
come to him. But on the point of pre-
vious notes he would say nothing.
MIR. Nieoll said the handwriting in
dicated the writer was a person of in
~telligence, with a good knowledge Of
English. He did not connect the writ
er Of the letter he received with the
person who sent the bombs to Judge
Rosalsky. There was no ground. he
thought. for such a conclusion.
He declined to give a copy OF the
letter which had come to him. Mr..
Nicoll said the letter be received
threatening his life referred to a long
prison sentence imposed when he was
district attorney and also the bomb re-
Gently sent to Judge Rosalsky.
Mr.. Nicoll said that no particular
case was mentioned when the writer
spoke Of a long prison sentence" and
that he could moi connect any one case
he handled when district attorney that
might give him a clew as to the writer
of his letter.