The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-05
FARRELL GOES TO
THE. 1OMBS ON
MURDER CHARGE
Bomb Constructor Was Ar
raigned Before the Cor
oner Today.
NUMBER OF DETAILS
CONFIRMED = TODAY
Served Ten Years in the New JerseSs
Penitentiary for Burglary-Settled
all Grievances with a Bomb-Show.
cd How He Made Them.

New York, Feb. 5.-John Paul Far.
rell. janitor and confessed bomb con.
structor today was arraigned before q
coroner and remanded to the tombs
charged with murder. to await the &C.
tion Of the grand jury. Farrell declin-
ed to add a word to his former state.
ments. The police. after a careful in
vestigation, confirmed the details rela'
tive to the prisoners placing of the
Herrera bomb.
Every time Farrell had grievance,
he seems to have settled the business
with bomb. The trouble with Mrs
Herrera. he said. was that she fired
him as janitor and hired negro In
his place. He wanted to get Judge
Rosalsky out of the way because the
jurist had sentenced Joseph Harvey. q
pal" to thirty-nine years in Sing Sins
for stealing SIG worth of jewelry'
Farrell told the police he helped Har.
vey rob Peter Johnson's home In the
Bronx In 1908. but easily escaped.
No Reason for Killing.
Why Farrell wanted to kill the Tay-
lor woman-sometimes known as
Grace Walker-waS more than the po-
lice could fathom. In his early story
Farrell said she was his daughter and
he slew her because she had gone
wrong. Later he said she was an in.
timate friend. but gave no reason for
killing her. He also told Dougherty
why and by whom kid" Walker was
shot down and slain in 1887 on the
Bowery. He said Walker. betrayed the
Taylor woman, and a man named
Lestrange killed him in revenge.
Having disposed Of the bomb mys-
teries. Farrell confessed. the police as
sert. to having perpetrated a series OF
robberics in Brooklyn. and the rob-
berry Of the johnson home. Harvey
and Harry Hartman, his companions
in the latter exploit. were sentenced to
Sing Sing for thirty-nine years and
never been suspected of completely in
the crime.
SerVed Ten Years, ''s--s's~'-s'@-
Besides this, MIR. Dougherty said
Farrell served ten years in the New
other crimes. AS John McDermott,
alias Liverpool Jack" Farrell's pic
turc is in the rogues' gallery in Jer-
sey City. according to Dougherty.
Farrells desire to confess so many
crimes led MIR. Dougherty to doubt his
sanity
After an all-night grillinE and more
of it during the forenoon. Farrell was
tractable and answered without hest
said he was born in ireland S.; years
ago and had served as an orderly in
the army during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. He was asked If he had
served in the navy. and promptly dis
played ~. S. NJ" tatooed on his right
arm. He also said he had been con-
fined for short time in an asylum at
Danville. Pa.
Showed How to Make Bomb.
The bomb Farrell placed opposite
Hcrrera's door. he made in his room.
he said. according to the same formula
used in manufacturing the Rosalsky
and Taylor bombs. The materials con-
sisted Of iron pipe. springs, paper. two
boxes, a steel button and a percussion
cap. The explosive in each case was
nitroglycerin. He gave the police IL
specimen of his handiwork by con-
structiong a dummy Internal machine
and demonstrating it.
The Taylor and Rosalsky bombs
We're made in the cellar of house in
East Fourteenth street. Farrell said.
where he was employed as an eleva-
tor runner. The superintendent of the
Farrell used to lock himself in a cellar
at times and became enraged If dis
turbcd. On the premises was found a
short length of pipe. fashioned at each
end just as Farrell said he made
them.
a connection between the Taylor
and Rosalsky cases was suspected,
partly through the fact that the ad-
dresses on the two packages were
made apparently by the same type
writer. Commissioners Dougherty said
last night that Farrell in his confess
sion told of buying second-ha
typewriter. Farrell made use of this
machine when he sent the bombs early
last Year, he said.