The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-02-12
SAYS He Sent IT
.BONB THAT EXPLODED In LARGE
APARTMENT HOUSE
COMMIT Other CRIMES

Amazing Admission Of Discharged
Apartment House Employee, Solv.
ing Several Mysterious Murders
and Attempt to XIII Causes Police
to Doubt Prisoners Sanity.
John Paul Farrell, a discharged
apartment house janitor OF New York
confessed Tuesday that be had kill
ed Mrs. Bernard Herrera Sunday
night by means Of bomb he had
made. and that, BY similar means. he
had caused the death OF Mrs. Helen
Taylor a year ago and attempted the
life OF Judge Otto A.. Rosalsky. OF
the Court of General Sessions. last
March. Farrell was held Tuesday
night on charge OF murder for the
killing of Mrs. Herrera
Although the police are convinced
the man is mentally unbalanced.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty
Tuesday night said detectives he had
sent out in numbers to Investigate
the case have learned enough to Lead
them to believe Farrell's story Is
true in the essentials, though false
in many details.
Every time Farrell had grievance
be seems to have settled the busi-
ness with a bomb. The trouble with
Mrs. Herrera, he said, was that she
had fired" him from his job as jan
itor and hired a negro In his place.
He wanted to get Judge Rosalsky
out of the way because the jurist
had sentenced Joseph Harvey. a
pal, to serve 80 years In Sing Sing
for stealing SIS worth Of tevelry.
Farrell told the police he helped
Harvey rob Peter Johnson's home In
the Bronx in 1908. bat eaRIly escap-
ed.
Why Farrell wanted to kill the
Taylor woman, sometimes known as
Grace Walker, was more than the
police could fathom. In his early
story Farrell said she vas his daugh-
ter and he slew her because she had
gene wrong. Later he recanted this
| and said she was an intimate friend.
but gave no reason for killing her.
He also told Mr.. Dougherty why
and by whom kid" Walker was shot
down and slain In 1887 on the Bow
cry. He said Walker betrayed the
Taylor woman and a woman named
Lestrange killed him in revenge.
Having disposed Of the bomb mys-
teries, Farrell confessed, the police
assert. to have perpetrated series
Of robberies in Brooklyn, and the
| robbery Of the Johnson home. Ear-
vey and Harry Hartman, his compan-
IONS in the latter exploit. we're SEN
fenced to Sing Sing for 80 years and
9 years, respectively. Farrell had
never been suspected for completely
in the crime. Besides this, Mr..
Dougherty said Farrell served 10
| years in the New Jersey Peniten-
tiarJ, at Trenton, for burglary and
| other crimes.
As John 'McDermott. alias Liver
pool Jack" Farrell's picture is in the
rogues' gallery in Jersey City. &C
co ding to information brought to
nougherty. Farrel's desire to con-
:ess to 80 many crimes led Mr..
Dougherty to doubt his sanity. lie
Immediately set about verifying tho
story. While detectives were busy
1t this the janitor kept two stanog
raphers busy taking down fresh de-
tails Of his protracted story.
After an all night grilling and
more Of it during the sorccccn, Ta,-
-eli was tractable, and answered
without hesitation every question put
tn him. He said he .Ia5 BON q
ireland SO years ago and had served
as an oroerly In the army IL Tie
Spanish war. tta was ask
I'd II he had served in :hs navy. aid
rio.nptl.. displayed "U. 8. ~ te',o-
ed on tls right arm. 'Ie "is' o:d
the police he had been ,1ir ! frr
| short time in an insale sI.Lm II
Danville, Pa.
The bonn, Farrell placed opposite
Herrera's be made In his room,
he said, a.cC. Ing to the same for
| mula used in manufacturing the Ros-
alsky and Taylor internal machines.
The materials consisted OF iron
| pipe, springs. paper, two boxes. a
steel button and percussion cap.
The explosive in each case was nitro:
glycerine. He gave the police spec
linen OF his handy work BY construct
! ing a dummy bom5a demonstrat-
Ing It as he told Of his crimes.
The Taylor and Rosalsky bombs
were made In the cellar Of house In
East 14th street. Farrell said. where
he was employed as an elevator op-
orator. The superintendent Of the
buil1ing recalled Tuesday afternoon
that Farrell used to lock himself In
a cellar at times and became en-
ragged II disturbed. A connection be-
tween the Taylor and Rosalsky cases
was suspected party through the fact
that the address on the two packages
were made apparently By the same
typewriter.
Commissioner Dougherty said
Tuesday night that Farrell, in his
confession, told Of buying second
hand typewriter. Farrell made use
of this machine when he sent the
bombs early last year.
Like the bombs sent to Mrs. Tay-
lor and Judge Rosalsky, the Herrera
Internal machine was enclosed In a