The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-27

she was mot sure at Rrst that it came from her
husband. So she autographed to the steam
ship company to inquire, and they sent de-
tective to Dresden to bring her up to Bremen
haven. She had heard about the great ex-
plosion there, and fancied for awhile that her
husband had been standing by and sustained
some injury, but the detective, while con-
cealing the facts of the case, animated that
Thomas had been wounded by his own hand.
This intelligence increased her anxiety and
dismay, and served to divert her attention
from the curious crowd which gathered at
every station on the route to see her. and it
made her unmindful of their scrutiny.
On reaching Bremerhaven another detect
i've awaited her, whose attendance she i'm
agined, had been secured by the kind fore
thought of her husband. While waiting on
the platform for cab she was surprised to
behold vast concourse OF people, apparently
crowding all the streets and byways which
opened on the main thoroughfare Soon
over the faces of the multitude look of pity
passed as there moved into view long train
of hearses, stretching far up the avenue,
which, she was told, bore to the grave the
victims of the explosion. The sorrow de-
picted on the faces of the relatives who fol-
lowed the sad cortege, moved her womanly
heart, and the tears of the wife were shed in
pity for the victims of the husbands fatal
plot. On reaching her hotel the Inspector of
Police called upon her and from his lips she
first heard the awful story of Thomas's crime.
For q while she says she was unable to realize
or comprehend what she had heard
In state of stupor she asked the official to
repeat it again, and during the subsequent
examination to which she was submitted she
had barely strength enough to answer the
questions put her. On asking to see her hus-
band the officials at first demurred, and after
ward agreed to an interview only in the
presence of witnesses, and with the under
standing that all conversation should be car.
ried on in German, with which language, Mrs.
Thomas says, her husband was quite un-
familiar. It was only when he was speechless
and at the point of death that she was per-
mitted to see him. In q large room in the
hospital, whittier he had been taken, Thomas
lay. His breath came hard and labored, and
his whole frame trembled convulsively when
his wife was led up to the bedside.
His eyes fixed upon her face with look of
recognition, and when the doctors inquired if
he knew her he pressed her hand tightly and
strove, but in vain, to speak. For few mo.
ments Mrs. Thomas was allowed to remain by
tho dying man, and soon after she was led
away he breathed his last Then began q Sc
ries of examinations by both magistrates and
OONkAON
with suggestions from the Germn press which
the American residents felt called upon to re-
sent, until wearied by this kind Of persecu-
ton and longing to secure retirement from the
unenviable publicity into which she had been
brought Mrs. Thomas came to America.
PENNILEss w1DowHooD.
AT present she is residing in New York with
her four children, from whom she has sedu-
lousy concealed the knowledge of their
fathers crime and death. Left utterly PEN
niless in her widowhocd, it was only by the
munifcence Of the American residents in
Germany that she was enabled to pay the ex-
penses Of the voyage, and she is now without
any resources whatever. A lady friend Of
hers, who met her on the Continent and
keenly appreciates the position Of woman Of
refinement such as MI. Thomas is, exposed
to penury after life of aff1uence, has sug-
gested the propriety of making public ap-
peal for sympathy, as the Americans on the
Continent did, in order to enable the widow
and mother to support the little ones whom
she shrinks from iRtrusting to an eleemosy-
narv institution.