Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-04
ADMITS HE SENT
BOMBS THAT COST
z WOMEN LIVES
Mystery Of Explosion
Outrages Laid Bare
by Farrell.
INTERNAL MACHINE SENT
EMPLOYER IN REVENGE
Knows Man Who Attempted
to Blow Up Judge
RosaIsky.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-John Paul
Farrell, janitor. confessed today
that lie sent to Bernard Herrera. last
Sunday, the bomb which resulted in
the death of Mrs Herrera and seri-
ous injury to Herrera and Miss
Fnghtman, 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 a bomb last year to Judge
Otto Rosalsl1y. Finally he explained
the death of kid" Walker, slain
In 1887.
He had killed Mrs. Taylor, he said,
because she was his daughter and had
gone wrong. kid Walker was
killed. he declared, by man named
Lestrange, because Walker had
caused Mrs. Taylor's downfall. The
attempt on Judge Rosalsky's life, he
added, was made because the judge
had sentenced criminal unnamed to
twenty years Imprisonment. The
bomb was sent to the judge by man
known TO Farrell only as Tony"
Herrera's life was sought, Farrell
said because Herrera had said 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 con-
structed 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 en-
trusted "a 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 outsideshis door. He insisted
however, that he intended only to
scare the family
Arrested yesterday as a material
witness" Farrell confessed only
after an all-night grill;ng. He held
out till dawn. Then the detectives
sent for Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty. and the prisoner went
over with him What he had told the
others. The construction of the
dummy bomb followed.
Farrell told the police he began to
make the Herrera bomb last Thurs
day night. completed it on Friday
and kept it in his room till Sunday.
Cnmoved by the knowledge that his
recital might send him to the cleo
trio chair, the bomb-maler took PEN
ell 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
q negro had been engaged to take
his place. In short bit of pipe,
picked up in the basement of the
apartment house, he placed bottle
of nitro-glyeerine, holding it in po-
sition by nails and paper. In the
mouth of the bottle he placed cork
in which a hole had been burned
with a red-hot hairpin A percus-
sion cap. a small spring, steel but
ton, box, wrapping paper and twine
completed the makeup of the in-
fernal machine.
Unless this man is crazy" Mr.
Dougherty said, I'VE have caught the
most dastardly criminal that has
come to the attention OF. the police
in fifty years
Mrs. Taylor, or Grace Walker, was
killed a year and day ago. The in
fernal instrument was made up to
resemble box of candy and was
mailed at the Grand Central station.
Opening it she was instantly killed.
and until today the reason why her
death was sought and the identity
of the assassin remained unknown.
The attempt on Judge Rosalsky's
life was made during the height of
the Brandt case. The instrumentewas
sent to the jurist's home and placed
on the library table. He did not like
Its appearance and notified the
bureau of combustibles. Inspector
Owen opened it in the judges library
and in the explosion which followed
his hand was MANNED and his face
and shoulders lacerated
Kid Walker, who Farrell declares
was the betrayer of his daughter
was shot down on the Bowery nearly
twenty-six years ago.