New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-06
SUSPECTED DYNAMITEURS.
LOOKING FOR cLEws IN THIS CITY

Mr., BooKER's ISsrRUCTIoNs-MEN WHO SAILED ON
TIE DoNAU.
The British Consul-General, Mr.. Booker yester-
day received from London description OF three
men who are supposed to have been implicated IN
the recent attempts to destroy the Victoria, Char
ing Cross and Paddington Railway Stations. 1t is
thought that these men left here in the steamer
Donau of the North German Lloyd Line, which
sailed from this port on February9 and touched at
Southampton on February 20. OF the men who
took passage on that steamer the British authorities
are seeking information in regard to nine Their
names are Edward Bolton, Henry Edwards, q. A.
Slocum or Liscomb, j. w. jenkins,
w. +. Greene, w. c. Walker, Thomas Adamson, or
Adamsen, John Hays and Edward Marsdale. These
took passage in the DOnau, in the steerage, for
Bremen, but, it Is thought. left the steamer at
Southampton Edward Bolton when he engaged
passage represented himself as living in this city,
He engaged passage at the office of the steamship
company in Bowling Green. Henry Edwards en-
gagged passage at the same place, and likewise
wrote himself as of this city, and f. A. Socum did
the same No one at the Office remembers
these three men, as there were great
number of others in the Office that day engaging
passage on the D0nau. The advices received by
the British Consulate give the name o E A. LIS
comb, but the name on the books of the company Is
T.. A. Slocum and it is thought that they are one
and the same. J. w. Jenkins and W. +. Greene came
from Chicago and engaged passage in that city,
W. G. Walker, Thomas Adamson and John Hays
represented themselves from this city and bought
their tickets at an agency OF the North German
Lloyd Company at No. 21 Broadway. Edward
Marsdae bought his ticket at the agency of the
New-York Central Railroad at No. Bowling Green
and said he was from this city.
No such names as Z. A. SlOcum. W. c. Walker OF
Edward Marsdale appear in the directory of this
city. The names of the others who represented
themselves to be from this city appear In the
directory, but a TRIBUNE reporter who looked
them I'D last night, found that the men bearing
those names who sailed in the Donau are not the
men who are given in the directory
The only Thomas AdamsOn in the directory lives
at No. 442 West Fourteenh-st and Is proprietor
of smelling works at No. 11S Gansevoort-st.. where
the reporter found him at work He said ho had
not been to Europe had been In business at that
place for seven years. and knew nothing about the
subject referred to.
There are in the directory FIVE men named John
Hays John Hays of No. % Westinghouse. la
borer came to the city from NewOrleans twenty
one years ago, and has never been out oftown since
He denies having blown up the Victoria Station.
John Hays of No. 38 Cherry-st., died about month
ago. John Hays, of No 2i9 Madison-st., printer,
is employed on The Herald and was at his home last
night. John Hays, Of No. 113 Monroe-st., owns
little ouor-stOre He also has larger one at One
hundred-and-ninth-st. and Fourth-ave., where he
was last night. He was at the MOnroe-st. place on
Monday. John Hays, watchman, OF No:
79s Sixth-ave., has not left the city
and knows nothing of any dynamite plots.
| Edward Bolton, blacksmith, lives on the rear
floor Of No. 156 Greenwch-st. His family consists
| of himself and wife. He has no relatives Oh ms
| name in the city and none so far as he knows who
ndEg saf Ration aborer OF No. 900 Third-ave
said that he had not seen Ireland his native coun-
try since he to the United States htteen years
Henry Edwards, a laborer living at No. 306 East
Thirtythird-st, said he had not crossed the ocean
| for many years. He knew OF no one else IN the
! city bearing his own name. A man by the name OF
! Henry Edwards formerly lived at No. % Orchard
/ ST. but moved away from that tnumberneary a year
Henry Edwards, an Englishman and a stone
cutter lives at No. 40S West Sixteenth-st IN rear
! tenement. He has been in the United States for
| eighteen years, has no relatives here and KNOWS
! nothing of any person of his name salllng IOr
! Europe in the last month.
! Nearly all the names given by the nine suspected
men are English names 1t is thought that they
are all fictitious ones and that the men took these
names to avoid suspicion, as II Is th0ught scarcey
possible that seven men should sail in one steamer
for the same place all giving their residences as TINS
! city, and yet not one of them have his name IN
! the directory The North German Lloyd line, by
| landing them at Southampton, would place Them
| near TO London besides it is not British line.
Mr. Booker the British Consul GeneTal SAID 70
TRIBr-<E reporter last night: have been making
! inGuires about the men referred to. was merely
instructed to if men giving such names had sailed
| in the Donau and find that they did. have re-
ceved full descriptions of three men who are sus-
pected Of being implicated IN the recent attempts 10
blow up the railway stations in London, but there
| is nothing new in the matter that can yet be made
| public. ! do not think that the dynamite used IN
! England by the dynamiteurs comes from this coun-
trv They can get it too cheaply on the other side
| The men that use it, however, do come from this
| country"
| At the Office of the North German Lloyd Steam
ship Company it was said that man from the office
| of the British Consul General came to the Office on
| Monday with a list of names similar to that given
! above and ascertained that men giving such names
! had taken passage on the DOnau. The Donau IS
now on her way back 10 this port, and will arrive
| on March a. or -. Detectives are said to be at
work in this country hunting mp the antecedents of
| the suspected men. For the three men who have
| been positively identified with the recent atteQpts
! TO blow up the Victoria, Charing Cross and Pad
! dington railway stations, and whose descriptions
| have been sent to the British Consul General, re-
ward is offered. The descriptions have been sent
ali over the world, and arrangements made to- have
| ~ onnrehpudcd wherever they be found.