Show BOMB MEND CONFESSES HIS CRIMS Mrs Bernard Herrera Killed Sunday Night by Means of Bomb Made by Discharged Apartment House Janitor REVENGE HIS MOTIVE FOR COMMITTING DEED Says He Also Sent Infernal Machines That Caused Death of Mrs Helen Taylor and Injured Judge NEW NI MEW EW YORK Feb 4 John 4 John Paul PaulL 1 L 4 Farrell a n discharged bouse o s J janitor nt confessed today that he Liar Had killed lulled Mrs Airs Bernard Herrera Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day night b by means of a bomb homb he lie had made and that by similar means he heia had ia 3 caused caused the death leath of Mrs rs Helen Taylor a year ago and attempted the life of Judge Otto A. A of the court of general sessions last March Farrell was held tonight ht on a charge of murder for the killing of Mrs Although the police lOliCe are convinced the he man is mentally unbalanced Deputy Deputy Dep- Dep uty ity Commissioner Commissioner Dougherty said tonight tonight to- to night detectives he be had sent out in inn n lumbers mhers to investigate the case casc have learned earned enough to lead them to believe be- be lieve lic Farrell Farrells Js startling story is if true truen in ill n the tIie essentials though false in inmany inmany inmany many details Every time Farrell had 2 a. grievance he le seems to have ha set settled lIed the business with a bomb The trouble with Mrs rs Herrera lie he said al was as that the ho ho d him from train his Job jOh as Janitor and and- sireda sired hired a negro in his place Ho He wanted 10 xo goot jot got Ju out of the way t. t to because us the tho J had Iad sentenced d to lo seph Harvey Harvcy a pal to serve Berve thirty thirty- nine years ars In Sing Sing- Sing for stealing He 16 worth of ot Jewelry Farrell told the po po- lice Ice ho helped Harvey Harvcy rob Peter Johnson's Johnsons Johnsons Johnson's John John- sons son's homo home In the Bronx In IDOS but hut easily e escaped aped Retracts Retrace One o Statement Why h Farrell wanted to kill the Taylor Talor woman sometimes known as Grace Walker was Talker was more than the police police po- po lice Ice could fathom In his early story Continued on Page 2 Column 1 I. I BOMB FIEND TELLS ABOUT HIS CRIMES CRIES Discharged Janitor Confesses He Killed M Mrs rs Herrera Also Herrera-Also Also i Mrs Mrs' Taylor Year Ago I t Continued Krom Pa Page e I 1 said she was Ills his daughter ind tid 1 th the jc slew her because she sho ho had gone ton i wrong Later Lator lie denied till this and said she was nn an- an Intimate frIends friend hut but Rave gave I no nb no reason rason tor for killing her Ho Ito also told Dougherty Doughert why h and anti by bj whom Kid shot and killed d In on tho flowery Dower Ho said Walker betrayed betray d the Taylor woman and Anda a man Ol L killed him hm In revenge Having disposed of ot tho the bomb mysteries mys mys- teries teries Farrell con confessed tho the police a- a ert rt to having perpetrated a eries eri tot bt f robberies In Br Brooklyn and tho the robbery robbery rob rob- ber bery of ot tho the Johnson t homo om Harvey Harve and hlA companions in the patter exploit sentenced to Sins Sing Sing ISIng for tor thirty nine years and nine nino ears respectively Farrell never nc hid been suspected s d of OC complicity In the tho I crime S Served r Term rm In I i v Farrells Farrell's desire to confess confess R BO many i CrImes led Mr 11 Dougherty to doubt his Vanity ManIty lIe He tel Immediately s sot set t about verifying the sto story While detectives were cre bus busy at this the Janitors kept two stenographers busy taking down details of oC his hie tale j He lie said ho he was ws horn In Ireland fifty fifty- three years cars ago aJo and had served as an orderly In the arm army In the Spanish Spanish- AmerIcan war He lie was asked If it he heh heh had h td d served nerved In the na navy and promptly displayed cd U 11 5 S. S X So tattooed on his Bright right ht arm al He UP also told the police he had been confined for or a short time In Yin fan Insane Insano asylum at nt Danville Pa The Farrell placed opposite Herreras Herrera's floor h he made mad In his his- hi room he said according to the same formula used In manufacturing the and Taylor Tay- Tay lor br bombs Tho The materials consisted of ot iron pipe springs paper two boxes a n steel tei l button and a percus percussion ln cap The explosive In each case was nitro nitro- He Un gave g the police a 3 of oC his handiwork by br constructing f to dummy Infernal machine and demonstrating dem dem- it as ns ho to told of C his crimes |