The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-04
hammer he talked evenly. without ex-
element.
WANTED TO SCARE MRS. HER.
RERA, NOT KILL HER.

RERA, NOT KILL HER.
II didn't mean TO kill Mrs. Herrera"
he said. II only wanted TO scare her
and her husband because they had been
mean to me-had made trouble for me.
! wanted to make trouble most for Mrs.
Herrera. for she had been the meanest
10 me.
II got the idea Of blowing up some
thing with a bomb last Thursday after
Mrs. Herrera had come down into the
cellar and nagged me a lot and told me
was going to be fred for loafing on
the Job. found a piece of pipe one
inch In diameter and Ave inches long In
the cellar. II had a metal cap on one
end and was open at the other end.
II went out and bought a two-ounce
bottle OF nitro glycerine from an Italian.
(Farrcll gave the name and the ad-
dress OF this man TO the detectives and
other detectives were Immediately
despatched to bring him In under ar
rest) ! put the two-inch vial in the
pipe. But first with n red hot halrpln
I bored n hole through the cork so the
stun inside would slowly leak out into
the pipe. Nitro-gl ycerine Is sticky and
thick like molasses. you know. and
flows slowly.
II put wooden plug over the opened
end OF tho pipe and drilled hole
through the wood. On tho outside. Just
at the mouth Of that hole. put a per-
cussion cap ! had bought at Seven
teenth street and Third avenue" 0Icre
again the man gave name for the de-
tectives' use.) THE cap stuck part way
out of the wooden cap. The nitro-gly-
cerlne was soaking outside OF the bottle
through the Interior Of the pipe so IL
would be exploded by the exploding Of
the cap
PUT IN sLUos TO DO 1.-THE TEAR.
ING BUSINESS.
"Oh. yes, inside the pipe put pieces
Of nails and big brass screws-they were
TO do the tearing business when the
thing went OF.
IL Axed the pipe and It's attachments
TO the bottom OF an old box--a PASTE
board box I found In the cellar--and
wedged II In with a framework Of
wood. Then outside the pipe I rigged
up a button with a spring behind it
a very strong spring that stuck UP
above the top of the box when the
cover was on II. BY pushing down
the cover you frightened up the spring
behind the steel button in front of the
percussion cap. Soon as the cover was
removed the spring would jam the but
ton against the cap and OF she
would 20.
Pretty dangerous business for me to
be monkeying with. wasn't II 7 Might
have got me II anything had gone
wrong"
Farrell said that he worked all day
Friday and Saturday on his deadly
machine In his room In the cellar. when
ever he had a spare moment from his
work Of tending the furnace he would
20 back to his work again. He wrapped
the whole In white paper and tied u
with string.
Il know" he explained. that II
could only set II In the hallway out
sids the Herrera's door one Of then
would ind II and woman's curiosity
would force Mrs. Herrera to open 1t.
CLIPPED BOMB ON LEDGE FoF
HERRERA TO FIND.
On Sunday night at Gas Herrera an'
man named McCrory came down int
the cellar Of the house and after the,
had looked over tho furnaces the!
went into the adjoining cellar in No
1<71. Farrell went with them am
after putting coal on the Are slippes
out and hurried upstairs to put thu
bomb on the ledge outside the Herrera,
door. He know that Herrera would rnt
II N soon II he went upstairs.
And sure enough. Herrera and hi
friend hadn't gone ten minutes whe'
I heard a hell OF noise upstairs II
the Herrera apartment
"'weii. she's on l said to mysei
and went upstairs to see what damaG
had been done"
All the time that Farrell had beef
working and talking Dougherty ha'
been watching his face carefully. IL
thought he saw an elusive resem
blance to somebody whose face he ha
encountered In his police experience
but he could not be sure.
"You sent the bomb that exploded u
Rosalsky's house last March," Dougher
ty suddenly charged. Don't deny II.
Farrell blinked hard for few min