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Show bomb fiend confesses i sending infernal machine cnitcr Who Had Lost Kis Position Confesses Cowardly Crime, Revenge Re-venge Being Motive fcr Deed. Xew York. John Paul Farrell, a isckarged r.pariment house janitor, confessed Tuesday that he had killed Irs. Bernard Herrera Sunday night by means of a bomb he had made, :nd that by similar means he had aused the death of Mrs. Helen Tay-or Tay-or a yezr a?o and attempted the life of Judge Otto A. Rosalsky of the ?.ourt of general sessions last March. 7arrell was held on a charge of murder mur-der for the killing of Mrs. Herrera. Although the police are convinced :he man is mentally unbalanced, Dep-ity Dep-ity Commissioner Dougherty said detectives de-tectives he had sent out in numbers to investigate the case have learned 3iiough to lead tuem to believe Far-rell's Far-rell's startling story is true in the essentials, es-sentials, though false in many details. Every time Farrell had a grievance he seems to have settled the business busi-ness with a foomb. The trouble with Mrs. Herrera, he said, was that she "fired" him from his job as janitor and hired a negro in his place. |