The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-02-05
BOMB SLAYER
MURDERS
Sent Internal Machine That
Killed One Last Sunday.
WANTED TO HOLD HIS JOB
Own Daughter Killed by Janitor, Who
Sent Internal Machine to Judge Ro-
salsky, of New York.

New York, Feb. John Paul Far
ell, janitor, confessed that he sent
10 Bernard Herrera last Sunday the
bomb which resulted in the death OF
Mrs. Herrera and serious injury to
Herrera and to Miss Fughtman, a
boarder.
Then. Farrell astonished the police
by calmly reciting that 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 Mrsf Taylor, he said, be
cause she was his daughter and had
gone wrong. Kid Walker was killed,
he declared, by man named Le-
Mrs. Taylor's downfall.
The attempt on Judge Rosalslsy's
life, he added, was made because the
Judge had sentenced a criminal, ur-
named, to twenty years Imprisonment.
saEhs bomb rss sert~ tc Il 3 il s5ge 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 su-
perintendent.
Before the astonished detectives, the
maker of deadly bombs constructed
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
bombs, he said, were entrusted to the
mails.
In the case of Herrera, Farrell said
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
Farrell confessed only after an all
night grilling. He held out till dawn
Then the detectives sent for Deputy
Police Commissioner Dougherty AM
the prisoner went over with him wha
he had told the others. The construc-
ton of the dummy bomb followed.
Farrell told the police he began t.
make the Herrera bomb last Thurs.
day night, completed it on Friday an6
moved by the knowledge that his re
cital might send him to the electri'
chair, the bomb-maker placidly tool
pencil and paper and drew numerous
diagrams, explaining how he had
planned the mechanism.
He began work on the bomb aftel
Mrs. Herrera had notified him that {
colored man had been engaged to talk
his place. In a short bit of pipe, picl:.
ed up in the basement of the apart
ment house, he placed a bottle of nitro
glycerine, holding it in position b.
nails and paper. In the mouth of tho
bottle he placed a cork, in which
hole had been burned with red-hoi
hairpin. A percussion cap, a small
spring, a steel button, box, wrapping
paper and twine completed the make
up of the Internal machine The sprins
was so arranged as to snap the but
ton sharply against the percussion ca
when the box was opened.
"Unless this man is crazy" said Mr.
Dougherty, we have caught the mosl
dastardly criminal that has come t.
the attention of the police in fft!
years"