New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-08

Jhmt,a. ,',,iir1.I again and asked low many Times
tho ley had boon turAed ahd now l"!'R lnie ~
would fake to ran down. Thc,in oAmlker could not
qiye him any answer, Ihd hc remained al bn!nen
mil IL had run down. OlherTho IT - supposed
that hc intended - place ~ al hoard the Denisch-
lind. o. the day tie hosrl sliiod he wound np the
clock again, so that u shoIid explode III nid-1can
aud blow mp Tia" vessel, cargo ana Pascpgrr5' after
ue himself nal landed at Southampton Whtrc II IS
,did he intended 10 PLi or bOiid heavily lhsdIId
Caa. = AID packages. Al Bremen no shipped worth
..s barrel, which be insured for 5000 marks "a
caviar. the plot VAS now complete, every Thing was
rendy, and tie author Oi the helish scheme was
calmly whiting the departure OF the snip
he lad destined TO, destruction, Had it not
been for the frost which cTysal2ed the dynamite.
and caused ~ 10 explode when Tho case containing IL
was tluown uDon the quay, nothing cohid have
saved the shI-it wOnld have exploited ABOUT three
DAVIS from kcw-Y and the world would probably
never have known Low.
This cold blooded monster died on Thursday night.
but confessed his guilt prov iOusly. iie denied hav-
ing any accOmplices but his brother has been
arrested at Dresden. ii 10 said that lettcrs have
been found upon him which, oven if he had not con-
f,sod would have been conyiBcingprcof OF bis guilt
Ia letter dated Strehlon, his wife begB him to give
I'D his projected scheme and 60 turn back from tho
dangerous path he was treadIng. In contradiction
TO this statement, which would prove his wifc
10 have been cOgnizant OF his schemes even II che
wore not an actOmplCC, the " cser ZeihHg Siys his
wife knew nothing of ThOmassen's hCllish plans
that she married him II years ago, bli never knew
ANYTHING Of his family or connections, ana does not
~
Tell her own madcH ugmO out OF regard Tor her
family aud relations. The BremerbaSon /s,iang AZ
sefts in spite OF all contradictions, That Jh0mnssen
declared lac had two packages on board tho Mosel.
that one of these has been tound on board the
Salcr and that another must still be on board that
vessel Int all appIchenT0ns on TINS score have been
removed by thorough inspection Of the Salicrs
cargo.
Further information regarding plots similar to
that of Thomasscn's is given by The Times, which
says:
We may observe with reference 10 the dynamite crime
nj nrcmerhaven that, atrocOus rs such crime appears,
IL is by no new e1pedlcnt ia principle AZ all
events In 1879 Admiral Poihuau, French Minister of
Marine issued circular warning Insurance agents mat
an American trying 10 sell small torpedo Tor de
stroying over-iBsured ships with impunity IL looked
like Il block Of coal about u inches by inches, and
could De put into the coal bunkers without exciting sls-
picion once there IL woula, when thrown into the
furnace, explode after fixed time thus enabling the
captain and get away, or II might be exploded ~
10 lay. The story denounced 40 sensation IN
tended 10 help Fimsol" but The IOst OF birmingham
received OF these machines, which, II declared, would
perform the duties required S0on after We had extracted
paragraph THIS e1eot from fds Spectator we published
. ie,ter from M H. Y. uomnins, Consh lot Yenotuoa