The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-05-01
OLD bomb SQUAD"
MEN At WORK ON
TYPEWRITER CLUE
Lettering on Labels Regarded
as of Utmost Importance in
Tracing PlotterS.

Inspector Faurot ana Sergeant
Gegun, chief Of what is left OF the
bomb squad" since Commissioner
Icnright started tho policy Of having
each precinct handle It's disorders a.
,ocal, whether they were local city
wide or national. went into conference
with the post o,Iicc authorities early
to-day. Sergt. Gegan was furnished
with several copies OF tho wrappers
and labels on the bomb packages. The
typewriting on the labels is regarded
as OF the utmost Importance in trac-
ing the source of the bombs.
The detective bureau has a card
catalogue OF typewriter oharacteris-
ties not unlike the thumb print catI-
loguc used for the detection OF indt-
vidual criminals. The work of sys-
tcmatizing in a z aCral way the
peCuliaritics OF various makes ~
typcwritcrS was undertaken by De-
tcctive George Busby while the de-
partmont was trying 10 find the origin
Walker or Helen Taylor and Judge
Rosalsky IN 1912.
The value OF the catalogue was
shown when Il was used tu verify the
dying confession, on March 90, 1918,
Of Henry J. klotz, Bronx drauchts-
man, that he had made and mailed
the bomb which killed ;he Taylor
woman on February ,. 1912, and also
the one that exploded in the apart
mcnt Of Judge Rosalsky on March is,
OF Inspector owen Eagnn vino mad
been called to examine IL
In the examination Of these bombs
Il was found the typewriting 81 owed
an exact similarity in the spacing OF
the letters not common TO other type
writer's For months ;ypcwriting
characteristics were analysed and
sifted out--untl the labels we're idcn,
tlfled as made by an Elliot-Tlsher
/ bookkeeping machine.
1t was not until klotz blew hiin'
SELF up with "A bomb that the search
FOR the particular typewriter was
successful. klotz worked in the Of
nce OF the Borough President or th'
Bronx In that office was one Of th'
Elliot Fisher bookkeeping, broad
guage typewriters, never used IN
correspondence OF addressing--cSccp
by Klotz-which had the exact n
dividual parts which marked the label
Of the Taylor and RosalsNy bomoS.
klotz at frat insisted ne knew moth
ing OF the bomb which had iniurc
him except that he had found 1t Il
Crotona Park and that n explode
while he VAS examining Il at hl
home. Deputy Police COMMISSIONS
Dougherty with the vrrihcatiun {
the typewriter clue, learned tha
Klotz had quarreled with the TaylC
woman about an inmate OF her ia
On his death bed Klotz made TO Act
ing Capt. Samuel Price OF the Broa
Detective Bureau a clean hrcnst {
the two crimes acknowledging h
had killed the Taylor woman ou
Of personal onmity and had tried I
Kill Judge Rosalsky because "hc 81
not like him"
When de'irious KlOtz nodded h
head in answer to a question 'heth'
he had sent the bomb which killc
Mrs Madeleine Herrera in Fulto
p Avenue, the Bronx, Feb, 2, 1918, "t
} experimental purposes" The vall
of this last confession was never Col
clusively established FOR the roasI
that "A different typewriter had hc'
I used.
4 The value Of the typcwritiug eli
,..a nhn 4lyad hapuuan "A lunnf
!, named Farrell had previously ma
n circumstantial confession rcgardil
. tho Same two bombs which part
& was diSproved when It was shov
10 that tho typewriter on which he Sa
ne had made the labels had none
the characteristics OF the ElliC
u Fisher machine.