Milford chronicle., 1913-02-07
BOMB SLAYER
TELLS0F MURDERS
Sent Internal Machine That
Killed One Last Sunday,
WANTED TO HOLD EIS JOB
Own Daughter Killed by Janitor' Wao
Sent Iniornal Machine to Judge E9
saloky, CT New York.


John Paul Farrell, janitOr in New
York city, has confessed that he semi
20 Bernard Herrera last Sunday tnC
bomb which resulted in the death OF
Mrs. Herrera and serious injury to
Herrera and to Miss FughtInan, q
boarder
Then Farrell astonished the police
by calmly reciting tnat he sent the
bomb which killed Mrs. Helen Taylor
a year ago, adding that Mrs. Taylor
was his daughter Next Farrell solved
the mystery surrounding the sending
of bomb last year to Judge Otto Ro-
salsky. Finally he explained the death
Of kid" Walker, slain in 1887.
He slew Mrsd Taylor, he said, be
cause she was his daughter and had
gone wrong. "Kid" Walker was killed,
he declared, by a man named Le-
strange because Walker had caused
Mrs. Taylors downfall.
The attempt on Judge Rosalsky S
life, he added, was made because the
Judge had sentenced a criminal, un-
named. to twenty years Imprisonment
The bomb was sent to the judge by a
man who was known to Farrell only
as Tony"
Herrera's life was sought, Farrell
said, because Herrera had said that he
would discharge him from his job as
janitor Farrell was employed at the
apartment house where Herrera is SUI
perintendent.
Before the astonished detectives, the
maker of deadly bombs constructed a
dummy internal machine, explained
how he made it, what he put into it,
how it operated and what the damage
would be to the person who should
open it. The Taylor and Rosalsky
bombs, he said, were entrusted to the
mails.
In the case of Herrera, Farrell sad
he had crept upstairs when Herrera
was away and had placed the bomb
wrapped in a pasteboard box, on the
landing outside his door He insisted,
however, that he intended only to
scare the family
Arrested as a material witness, y
Farrell confessed only after an all
night grilling He held out till dawn
Then the detectives sent for Deputy
Police Commissioner Dougherty ana
the prisoner went over with him what
he had told the others. The construc
tion of the dummy bomb followed.
70 rrolT to1J ro1ioo hogou m
make the Herrera bomb last Thurs
day night, completed it on Friday and
kept it in his room till Sunday I'm
moved by the knowledge that his re-
cital might send him to the electric |
chair, the bomb-maker placidly took |
pencil and paper and drew numerous
diagrams, explaining how he had |
planned the mechanism.
He began work on the bomb after |
Mrs. Herrera had notified him that |
colored man had been engaged to take |
his place. In short bit of pipe, pick /
ed up in the basement of the apart |
ment house, he placed a bottle of nitro (
glycerine, holding 1t in position by /
nails and paper. In the mouth of the |
bottle he placed a cork, in which a
hole had been burned with a red-hot /
hairpin. A percussion cap, a small .
spring, a steel button, a box, wrapping !
paper and twine completed the make.
up of the Internal machine The spring !
was so arranged as to snap the but I
ION sharply against the percussion cap
when the box was opened.
Unless this man is crazy" said Mr. /
Dougherty, I'VE have caught the most
lastardly criminal that has come to
he attention of the police in fifty
years"