Show JUSTICE SLAIN 8Y ANARCHISTS Peace Officer of Paterson N J Killed by Explosion of infernal Machine t Murdered Man Had Actively Aided the Police In the Capture of Italian LawBreakers and Was Marker for Death by Assassins Paterson N JJustlco of tho Peace Robert C Cortez was fearfully injured in his office Friday night by the explosion of an infernal machine sent him by express Tho office was wrecked and tho detonation could be heard for blocks Tho judgo had actively aided the police po-lice in the capture of Italian lawbreakers I breakers recently Justice Cortez died at midnight from his Injuries Ho had been tome to supper leaving his son Robert In charge of tho offlco It was the younger young-er man who had received the infernal machine which came from Newark and was delivered by an American I Express wagon The charges were paid and the boy accepted It When Cortez reached tho office the boy handed the package to him The outside wrapping was of paper tied with string twine Judge Cortez removed re-moved this paper Inside was another wrapper made fast with straps such as boys use to put around schoolbooks school-books Robert says ho watched curiously curi-ously to see what the little box contained con-tained His father rested the package on I tho desk and pulled tho end of the strap toward him so as to loosen tho tongaeof the buckle ihoraomonthe 1 did so there was an explosion A hole six feet square was torn in the floor and the desk was driven down Into the cellar and torn to pieces The boy was hurled Into b corner and seriously bruised and burned Judge Cortez was found behind the doorway and the hole In tho floor Both legs and both arms wore broken his face and body was torn and lac crated and his hack apparently broken brok-en A mass of flesh was torn from the bones Ho was removed to St Joseph hospital whero his antemor tern statement was taken Judge Cortez had been a justice for twelvo years Ho was shortly to be appointed a sergeant of detectives in recognition of the active work ho had done in aiding the police in running Italian and other criminals down |