The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-09
% secret and Illicit dispatch Of explosive ma

tho secret ana Illicit olsPetcn OF explosive ma-
terial.
But spark Of feeling was left even in his
sordid breast. Emerging from the cabin
moment after the explosion, the assassin
rushed on deck. gave furtive glance at the
ruin around, and, returning to the saloon,
shot himself. His trembling hand refused
him the immediate relief he sought, and he
lived long enough to tell his disgraceful tale
Since his death two important witnesses have
appeared on the scene-his wife, who arrived
in haste from Dresden, and the clock-maker
who constructed the igniting mechanism.
Though married for eleven years, his wife as
serts that she knows nothing about his
family, and, what is more Ineligible. de-
cliues to give her own maiden name.
Like her husband, she is an American, and
as there is nothing to indicate that she was
an accom- plice, the police do not think them
selves justified in OBTAINING her. She is left
with tour children, and by this time will
probably have returned to Dresden, prepare
tory to her final departure thence. The other
and more important witness, the clockmaker,
Fuchs, of BernburR, Duchy Of Anhalt, has
come forward Of his own accord. he states
that early in 1873, when at the Leipsic fair, a
friend told him he had mentioned bis name
to an American gentleman who wanted some
peculiar machinery made. Fuchs according
" went to No. 2 August strasse, where ne
found handsome man, about thirty years OF
age, hardly able to express himself in Ger
man.
Thomas, for this was he. at once gave him
an order for an eight-day clock, to work
noiselessly, and, at the end of a week, to llft
hammer thirty pounds in weight. BAT
Fuchs declined to take the order, as Thomas
| had not sufficient command of German te
ex plain necessary details. On the 9TH o.
March, in the same year, Thomas unexpect
eddy entered Fuchs's shop at Bernburg. tx
pressing himself much more huently this
time, like one who had learned his lesson by
heart, he explained the sort OF machinery M
required, and. in reply to Nh. Fuchs's ques
tons, said that he wanted the mechanism fol
silk m ,nufactu,y in America, and that tht
hammer was to be powerful enough to tear Oh
| 1000 threads at stroke.
| Fuchs who seems to possess skill and repu
tation, this time engaged to carry out the or
der, agreeing to deliver the clock on the 2Ott
of April at the Hotel de Pologne. at Leipsic
On the appointed day he went to Leipsic ane
met Thomas, who, ascertaining that the in
strument was correct, declared himself full,
satisfied, and, in consideration of certain
extra expenses, paid Fuchs 125 thalers, insteat
of the 100 thalers originally agreed upon
Subsequently, Thomas ordered twenty NOR
machines of the same sort, none OF which
however, have been as yet delivered. Fuch
has in his possession a model Thomas CAV
him as an exact specimen of what he wanted
The machinery is the same as that Of
large clock, but with peculiarities, which
Fuchs thought were intended to be supple
mented by some invention or other of Thorn
ass own. According to what Fuchs says tn
machinery would have acted with unfailing Gel
tainty, and would have exploded in the YES
sci exactly ten days after being deposited O.
board. But for the cold, which crystalize
the dynamite and made it explode when tn
che st was violently thrown on the quay, tn
Mosel could not have escaped an untimel
4 end.