The reply from the Waterbury police looked extremely interesting to Chief Inspector Edward Byrnes, leader of the special task force called the Bomb Investigation Unit and his men.
Among the details received from the Waterbury police were:
“George Metesky was still living at 17 Fourth Street. He had been born George Milauskas but a teacher in school had unofficially changed the name to Metesky because she as afflicted with a mild stutter, she had trouble vocalising the vowel-L-diphthong combination. Since all George’s schoolmates called him Metesky, he had simply adopted the name. He, too, liked it better than Milaukas.”
