The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-19


former life and she evidently did not evince mucn
anxiety on this point, as recently, during severe
sickness OF her husband, when she asked him VINO
were his relations In order that she might apply TO
them in the OF his DEATH be forbade her e cues
ton him further She had idea that his former
name was Alexander which presumption Is borne out
by the fact that large Latin "a" was attooed upon
MS arm Mrs Thomas also thought that his parents
were English, and his mother, Miss Sutherland nad
lived up to recent date at Petersburg, Va Near rela
tives dwelt in New York
IL IS not yet that this Thomas Identical with
the John Thompson who attended Noell's Commercial
School In Osnabruck from Easter, 1854 until Michael
mas 1855 since the director of that institute is dead
and It not possible to get the evidence from any OF
Thomas fellow scholars There is a certain resem
bance between tho handwriting Of the scholar Thomp
son and the man Thomas Opposed to this assumption
is the fact that the latter could not until lately express
himself huently in German 1t not that he was
born In Bocholt, Westphalla No family OF any such
name is there known 1t is also untrue that Thomas
is Identical with the EnglIshman named John Thomp
son rect Lionel Holsworh who was arrested in
Basic In 1866 on a charge OF having sunk ships This
man was sent to England, and there sentenced to
transportation He ten years older than W. K.
ThomaS
HIS MOVEMENTS LAST THREE YEARS
or late years Thomas frequently leh his family and
made journeys of which his wife knew nothing. He
was alone in Paris in 1873 in Prague 1871, Frank
fort-on-theAa in 1872 Berlin 1872, Altenbury 1876
Hamburg 1875. In May, 1873 and october, 1874 no
was some weeks in Vienna and at the end OF 1870
to New York and subsequently in 1875 made other
voyages there always alone During his residence in
Leipsc and Dresden, and especially the latter place.
Thomas associated with Americans particularly with
the members OF the Freiberg Mining Academy All his
associates have been found to be OF good repute
and no suspicious intercourse his part has been de-
tected The supposed completely OF DR.. Michel of
Berlin, has no foundation in fact This gentleman is
highly esteemed citizen
A HAPPY DOMESTIC LIFE
1t is said that the domestic life OF the perpetraor OF
this foul crime was the WHOLE very happy one,
although during recent years he has been suspected OF
cruelty and ilbehavior toward his wife, and it Is
limited that his place in society Dresden had lately
become little shaken Up to 1873 his business con-
nectons In Germany are supposed to have been solely
with bankers In 1868 he placed $35 700 with Lcpsc
banker but in 1869 he sent this Nessrs Barring
OF London, who then his bankers He speculated
in French cables TO considerable extent The
standing to his credit at the Barngs was in July 1862
S. GAL This reduced at the end Of 1872 $2546
and at the close of 1878 to 81 619 During subsequent
years this latter has all been drawn, leaving
Thomas without means. A dishonored dran, drawn by
him in the OF 1875 is in the hands Of Dresden
banker. He procured the last money his possession
from Suez banker in November, 1875, from q draft
on Barring Brothers for clio. He is not known to
have been in connection with insurance companies
before 1875 nor previous to that date any
be found OF plans relating ships In the list goods
shipped in the City Of Boston, 1870 three boxes
consigned from Halifax Liverpool by James Thomas,
he helm O. A. ca n la
certainly known that December 1870 the time the
assurances relating to that steamer paid Thomas
in New York, and sent from the latter place his
wife, through London and Hamburg, bankers drafts
for f500 and s457. II has yet TO be cleared up
whether the consignor of the above mentioned goods
received the money for them.
The German inquiries began unearth intentions OF
q criminal nature far back 1879 At the COM
mencement Of that year Thomas in Lepsc and IL
has been discovered that he then a clock
maker named Martin, whom he asked to manufacture
clock similar to the one so often described. Martin
referred him To a skifu mechanician named Fuchs OF
Bernberg In Easter. 1873 this Fuchs became &C
quainted with Thomas the latter having informed him
that he wanted clock.
rSvERxAL CLOCK.
The clockwork TO work silently, without any
ticking for the specified ten days. and then to strike
Fuchs did not quite understand the scheme owing to
Thomas imperfect German, and therefore did not I'M
mediately finish the work. In March or April 1874
Thomas, under the OF Teadro wiskof ordered
from Ignas Rind, clockmaker living at No, SO Sie-
benstern gasse Vienna, clock, which he said was to
be used in a Russian mandatory 1t was required to
60 days, and then, by the lifting OF lever release
a cylindrical spring which carried great power He
gavo minute instructions, and himself to
overlook the work, which he caused TO be altered
three times, owing to the spring being too weak
In December, 1874, It completed to his satisfac-
ton. The machine then forwarded TO an address
given by Thomas in Bremen. One hundred guldens
wero paid to the clockmaker In April, nfty in October
and the remainder subsequently. On the 9th OF March,
1875 no again appeared the shop Of Mr. Fuchs &C.
| companed by porter, who carried a box, and ex-
planned in much better German than the former
OCCASION that the box contained a clock which had
been made in Vienna and suited to his purpose
He remarked, before, that he required clock for
silk factory in Russia, which would 60 for ten days.
and then At q prescribed moment tho mechan-
ism would release spring lever Of the pressure
OF thirty pounds weight to a thou
sand threads simultaneously. he said the vienns
clock too small and weak, and that If Fuchs could
make him the exact thing he desired he would order
twenty more Fuchs accordingly made and deliv-
cred it the Goth OF April 1875 in Lepsic Thomas
him at the station, showed him number of boxes
In the depot which he said were going to Russia and
were only waiting for the arrival OF the clock He
then took him TO the Hotel de Poogne and the clock
was deposited in Thomas room. Fuchs received SIS
| marks and retained the model
BUYING DYNAMITE.
| On the 2lst December 1874, gentleman calling
himself w. J. Garcie OF Kingston Jamaica, appeared
In the Cologne bureau OF the dynamite mandatory OF
the Brothers Krebs at Kalk, and ordered some dyna-
| mite which he said he wished TO ship on Of his
own vessels to Kingston. Garcie was without doubt
Thomas The clerk at Messrs Krebs' mandatory has
recognized the portrait Of Thomas as being identical
with the appearance OF this Garce whose letters also
correspond exactly with Thomas Thomas received
the goods from Messs Krebs addressed TO Garcic OF
Bremen On the 10Th March, 1875, he went to Kalk
and received these 700 lbs OF hthoracture tdynamite