New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-07
uDrLHT SAID 1T WAS AL a JOKE.
urvrRTHELEss THE BROOKLYN ocULlsT 10
CHARGED WITH STEALING A KANSAS
CITY BROKERS' HANDBAG.


c,ort T.. Wright. OF No. go WESTINGHOUSE BrooR-
80 arrested Yesterday morning he was leaving
a. steamer Massachusetts OF the Providence me
10 T. an ocnlist ard optican. and was employed oy
ALEXANDER a manufacturing optician oil No ioZ
r.,,ton.st BroOKlyn. Wright arrested oy Tue
police more on suspicion than anything else' Du'
hor his handbag examined. the fnct was estao-
,,-,ad hevond doubt that he was the man wanted
Among the passengers on the Massachusetts, were
y W Wyman and his wife, OF Kansas City Mr..
wmon * n member OF the brokerage firm Of Hardness.
yvvmon a. Russell. of that place. Shortly after the
Massachusetts, left Providence, Mr. and Mrs WJman
a.. down 10 their supper having left In their Stale
room a bag belonging TO Mrs. Wyman In II were
Jewellery and toilet articles. valued at 5000 when
they returned to their stateroom the bag had DIS
appeared A.
sot and steps were taken to discover what had be-
oe Of IT, The third mate, Sidney A. Sears, rcnlenl-
hcrcd that he hal noticed a man putting handbag
mat Tailed with the missing one, into another anc
larger bag The mate said that he could Identity the
man and II determined to await the boats arrival
in this city and arrest the man as he landed.
Among the last to leave the Massachusetts, was
meek looking man, carrying what was apparently
eample case OF brown canvas bound with leatner
The mate at once identified the as the one ne
noticed the night before.
He was taken to Pier A, and there in Captain
Schnttberger's room the sample case was openeu anu
the missing bag Of Mr.. Wyman was found, Win all
its contents intact. The man gave his name as Leon
THOMPSON, OF No. "a Green-st., Bridgeport Conn., lie
insisted that 1t all joke and everything would DE
right.
search Of his person and effects brought ont some
necuar features He had 900 pairs Of spectacles ana
eyeglasses nicely put up in leather cases, on each OF
which was stamped " DR.. Clark Wright oculst ana
optlcian Brooklyn, y. Y" There were also seVera
nnwn tickets FOR trivial sums, and the following STOCK
certificates certificate for 100 shares of the Homer
Mill and Mining Company of San Francisco numoereu
1856 dated San Francisco, December 20, 1879 ana
drawn i'm the name of +. T.. Luty, trustee; certhcae
for 100 shares of the Caborea Mining Company OF san
Francisco numbered 8G7. dated san Francisco, May -
1852 and payable TO d. O'Dell certificate for loo
shares Of the Baxter Electric Light Company, numbered
OBJ and dated New York, July 3. 1884, drawn 10 Will
lam H. Longsdorf; note dated New-fork, January s.
1882 for four months for 300, drawn in favor OF
John S. Honeycomb, signed by f. D. Killian and made
payabIe AT the Manhattan Trading Companys oHce'
No 10 Broadway.
one thing that the police consider worth further
investigation was newspaper clipping found IN
Wright's pocketbOok. 1t well worn and had Deeh
emf from a New-YOrk morning paper. IL toid the
story of Samuel Ten Eyck, who at the time lay dead
in Chambers Street Hospital. unidentified. The man