The New York herald., 1876-02-21

for moment and then cast himself beside her, wce1
ing like a child In answer to her inquiries he said
this momentl / was in the house all last night"
THAT could not be, said his wife; 'the doors were
locked and bOlted.o
"Well, / was about It," he replied. 81 walked
around II again and again.
Mrs Thomas endeavored to dismiss such fancy
from his head and he at last admitted that he had not
been there, but had seen everything in imaginatoa
just II ne were For few weeks he remained about
the house, displaying some OF his former cheerulnesi
and frequently laughing and chatting with the chill
dren. His wife rejoiced at this Improvement in hia
health and disposition and tried TO believe that he had
resumed hs old course life again when one stornV
night he burst into her room mued the throat and
with the rain streaming from his garments
II did not want to grisve you by telling you - hd
said in voice that trembled with excitement; but
have TO 20 away for a week or two"
She began 10 weep as she parted from him. when he
turned and whispered, 81 must go now, but this wiz
be the last time"
him dated at Bremen and Bremerhaven. The language
OF these missives strangely rambling, the wordS
misspeed and traces OF tears blurrng the ink every
page These indications OF a troubled mind seemed
portentous TO Mrs. Thomas She felt presentimenf
that something dreadful was going to happen, and day
after day looked for news from her husband For
long time She heard nothing OF him. till day there
came telegram from the North Lloyd Steamship
Company addressed TO "Mrs. Thomas" ana bearini
this despatch
~ am sick. Come here.
Through the misdirection Of the envelope she waf
not at first that it came from her husband. S<
and they detective Dresden to bring her up I'd
Bremerhaven. She had heard about the great explo.
there and fanced for while that her husband ha0
been standing by and sustained some INJURY but the de
tecve while conceang the facts OF the case intimated
that Thomas had been wounded by his own hand. fhf
intelligence increased her anxiety and dismay, and
served divert 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 detective awaited
her whose attendance she imagined had been secured
BY the kind iorethought of her husband While walt
me Ouf IA MI n tO ba
hold vast concourse people, apparently expecting
some public denomination and crowding all the streets
and byways which opened on the main thoroughiare.
Soon over the faces OF the multitude LOOK of pity
passed there moved into view long train of hearses
stretching far up the avenue, which, she WAS told,
bore the grave the victims Of the explosion. Thd
depicted the faces of relatives who followed
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 tho
Inspector of Police called upon her and from his lips
she first heard the awful story of Thomas crime For
while she saws she was unable to realize or compre.
hend what she had heard In a state Of stupor she
asked the official TO repeat II again. and during the sub
sequent examination to which she submitted she
had barely strength 10 answer the questions put herr
on asking to see her husband the officials at first de-
murred aud aferward agreed to an interview only in
the presence of and with the understanding
that all conversation should be carried on in German,
with which language, Mrs Thomas says, her husband
was quite unfamiliar. 1t was only when he speech
less and point of death that she permitted to
see him. In large room in the hospital, whittier
he had been taken, Thomas lay. His breath
came hard and abored, and his whole frame
trembled convulsively. when his wife was
led up 70 the bedside. His eyes fxed upon her face
with look of recognition, and when the doctors in
quired II he knew her he pressed her hand tightly and
strove, but in vain, to speak For few moments Mrs.
Thomas was allowed TO remain by the dying man, and
alter she led away he breathed his last TheI
began series of examinations by both magistrates and
curious persons of official standing, coupled with
suggestions from the German press which the American
residents felt called upon TO resent until, wearied by
this kind of persecution and longing to secure retire
from the unenviable publicity into which she had
been brought, Mrs Thomas came to America
PEyNLEss wIDowHooD
AT present she is residing in New York with her fouA
children from whom she has sedulously concealed the
knowledge OF their father's crime and death. Left
utterly penness in her wdowhood 1t was only by the
munihcence OF the American residents in Germany
that she was enabled TO pay the expenses of the
voyage and she is without any resources what
ever. lady friend of hers who met her on the Con-
tinent and keenIy appreciates the position OF woman
of refinement such Mrs. Thomas is exposed to
penury after life of aiIucnce has suggested the
proprIety OF making public appeal for sympathy, as
The Americans the Continent did order enable
the and mother TO support the little ones whom
she shrinks from intrustng TO an eeemosynary inst
tuition. ....rh