The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-05

DEAR SIE:-I am very poor, despondent man,
There are about FIVE weeks nave oeen mummy
for some work without any result from morning
until night l have cold nll my clothes ana nave
positively no means TO provide Tor my needs.
request you TO donate me s. with which 10 pay
my fare 10 Boston. where nave some Rcquaint'
arices that NAV help me. Five dollars Is moth
Ing TO you but for me II Is lie. do not want
TO hurt you, but am very respondent ana
hopeless Well please grant me the above 40
nation. Send It In my name 10 the general post
Office, Brooklyn, L D. II do not receive an
answer tomorrow, July %, ! will come 70. your
store and blow out my brains May God have
mercy on me; but II you help Ec, Cod VIII
blCSs you Gnd reward you an hundred.iold.
Yours, ALBEEr DELLAUEENs.
The above is o copy of lettcr adj
dressed to Ralph NJ. Hyde, general
manager of Tiffany & Co., Union
square. It was dated Brooklyn, E. D.,
July %, and Mr.. Hyde received it the
next day After hehad read it he gavei it
to Chief Inspector Steers, who sent De-
tectivc sergeants Lyman and McCaherty
to find the writer. A decoy letter was
mailed Dellaurens, but he did not call
for it. The post Office was watched
day and night, but Dellaurens did not
turn up.
Meanwhile another letter bearing an
earlier date than the one addressed to
Mr.. Hyde was brought to police head
quarters. thread:
BROOKLYN. E, D., July 10.
llcars. Earring. MdgOun & Co., No. Is Val Street,
NeW York CITY;
GISrLEAIEN:-I AM avery poor, unfortunate
man, out OF work and unable 10 find situation
out Of which to Gnrn my daily bread. am In a
state Of hopeless dependency and hunger cora
pels me 20 do wrong. wont 70 q man who
claims to be my friend asking help. but he gave
inc a box OF dynamite and some wicked advice.
Now. gentlemen, / need very buddy so 70 80
West, away from New York. DO not travel In
Pullman palace cars as YOU do; l an satisfied
with freight trains, and SO VIII carry me very
far. Such little sum Is less than nothing for
you, but for INC 1t means llfc Please then, DO
kind enough TO send me so in letter and help
me in my distress. God will repay al hundred
fold.
II you refuse 1 swear l will come to Your
offices, or to the private residences Of some OF
you, and blow you up with dynamite.
Remember what happened 10 Russell Sage.
You may not be rs lucky rs he huS been. know
1t Is wrong, but misery aud hunger doesn't
listen 10 reason. Don't atteinptto have mo ar
rested by tho policG whom so 10 the postoilco
for your letter. Tho police would arrest an In
nOcent man who knows nothing. Twill get some
poor fellow 10 20 to tho postolicc for me, and II
1sec any Interference OF the police Will carry
out my threat, viz, blow you up with dyra'
mite.
suffering ones. II succeed out west will re-
turn your money as soon as can with large IN
terest You may rely upon the utmost secrecy
upon my part In regard to the business.
Hoping that your wealth has not changed your
heart from flesh 10 stone, remain. yours truly,
ALBERT DELLAURESSr
Gen. Del. P. o.. Brooklyn, E. D.
P.S-Can hope for an answer to-day?
Another decoy letter was addressed
to the writer andth detectives haunted
the postoffice waiting for him to APP
pear. Monday evening a tall, slim
man, with bullying blue eyes, high
cheek bones, hollow cheeks, sandy
mustache and weeks growth of beard
upon his face, stepped up to the deliv-:.
cry window. With strong foreign &C
cent he inquired if letter had been re-
ceiyed for Albert Dellaurens. As the
missive was placed in his hands his
skeleton-like fingers clutched at it as a
miser clutches his gold. No time was
given him to open 1t, for the detectives
at once placed him under arrest. He
confessed that he was the author of
both threatening letters, but added that
he did not intend to harm anybody,
and that the whole affair was, as he ex-
pressed it, "a bluff"
Dellaurens was taken to police head
quarters and placed in cell. His at
tire,was mean, and it was evident he
had been stranger to food for day or
two. After having been fed he said he
was born in Geneva, Switzerland, about
thirty years ago,
''I,was graduated" he added. "from
the University. OF Geneva. Later 1
studied law and still later practical me-
chanics. At the death of my futher.
FIVE years ago, came to tho United
States and went to Chicago. There [
established a law Office, but failing to
succeed, and being absolutely without
means, obtained employment as a sta
tionary engineer in the repair shops OF
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Com
pany. had trouble with young
woman and was forced to leave Chi
cage.
II came to New York and sought
long and vainiy for work. My little
hoard of money was soon exhausted,
although lived economically, slept in
cheap lodging houses aud ate only one
meal q day. Starvation stared me in
tho facc, and l became desperate. Then
] wrote those letters. That ia my story.
/ am a single man and have no relatives
nor friends in this country. ! was never
before in any similar difficulty"
Tears stood in Dellausun's eyes as no
finished his story, and it was evident
that behind it all there is sad history,
but no amount Of questioning could in
duce him to reveal anything further
about his life.
He was taken to the Tombs police
court and remanded until to-day. Evil