The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-08
Is HE MERELr A SNEAK THIEF
Dentist wrighcs Peculiar Intsrest In the
Gnlcidc Of Manual Ter Exck.

Ocuiist wriGhcs Peculiar Hatarest In ths
Suiotdc OF Samuel Tea Eyck.
Can't sohmitibercsr Of the steamboat SQUAD
Is inclined to believe that tho man arrested by
Detective Grady on Thursday morning for
stealing q travellers satchel NAV DO more than
sneak thief On Wednesday night Waller +.
wyman,a banker Of Kansas City left Providence
with his wife on the steamboat Massschusetts
Of the Providence lius for this city. On the boat
Mr.. Wyman rot into conversation with q
dappsr young man who said bis name vas
Leon Johnston. and that he was an eye doctor
and lived IN Boston. Mr. WymAn wnsn': ~.
tractsd by the young mans manner. and bad
little to say 10 him. About midnight Mr. and
Mrs. Wyman went below for supper loavin
the door OF their sta,eroom open. On his
travels Mr.. Wymnn carries q small satchei
containing toilet set valued at $3.50. When
he went below fer supper he lett this satchel
on chair In tho room. when he returned the
sntchel was cone. Nothing else in tho room
had bcsn disturbed.
Wyman notified the Captain and Third ON
Ger Sidney Fears said he had aeon n young
man packing small satchel into big oxten-
sion valse. 1t was decided to watch for tho
young man as he got or tho boat In the Morn
reachoyi her iock ,he Captain won! ashore and
called Detective Grady. and POSTED the d~tsc-
i've anu Male Sears at mo gang pnnk. Inc
passengers cnme along one by one until finally
the dapper youne o, doctor from Boston step;;
ped ashore In one hand he rarried a small
valise. Scar. gave the tip TO Grady. who ar
rested the younN mum aud took him beio
III. piisonsr turned TO the Captain with m
aggsiryoi look and said:
Thta is preposier, VS.. air. ard shall de-
ing. ! insist on knowing why 1 ON under
The ,cartsin didn't answer. Instead. he
took out Mr, Wyman's aaicGel. Then. turn
ing to- tho prisoner, he said:
What do you say to tnHtp"
lis all up. aud I'm caught" teplied tho
No then said Tint his name was Leon John;
lived at ~ Greene street Brilaenort. onn.
He wa taken 70 the Tomns Police Court;
where Justice O'Reiily held him for the Grand
y, There Is reason to believe that he is an osg,
W., and that he is clarS L. Wright Of 25s
ynlse which he carried wers several package
81 snsStsas:s eysxi L, and Instruments
There were also lOJ shares u stock In, the
m"ss out IL so omnses B.
William II. i:anRsdori: lou shares OF stock in
county. California. male out to +. Z. Luty;
three nnTn ,icsets for cnrpent.ra' tools: IN the
name o! l.. NJ. shuts two statements u goods
r.csi.ed. In same nanle: q Lroinissory, note
signed by L D. Killian; Two rocEe hooks cum
tanning money ana rapers and large number
~ newsrnpsr clippings telling OF tne. suicide
q samusl Ten E,ck In tue stevens House. in
October last.
i was this last apd. together with several
other little thugs which he IL Eeepine to him
self. that has led Capt, schmit,be berger 10 think
that he caught prlze whom Wright was ar
rested. On Oct. II. 1880. Samuel Ten Eyrk.
who was staying at tho Stevens House. wRs
found At the. io..t ~ the stairs with his skull
ira.t nrsd. He died later in the Cham bora
htreet Hospital Nothing WAS known about
him except. that he was q miner and came
from the West. His body Was about to be
hnr1ed in f"tters Field. whom l.. A. Dntterfeli
himself rs n friend Of the dead, man and took
charge OF the body The police put the case
down Rs snicide. Capt. Srhmit be ger Inns
given the case to Detectives Grady md Malon
10 find what IL the Significance OF DR.. WriHuts
APPARENT interest In Ten Eyck.