The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-27

| gan, the man VIII mas been writing
| threatening letters a number of prom
| inent public men Z, Iring the last two
/ weeks, is in jail to. ght. He walked into
| the detective bureSd of James A. Nc
/ Dewitt this afterno N, asking for food.
| The doctor took nim into a coffee
house and had something prepared for
| him to eat. Mes .time he questioned
him and learned eI 5ugh to fix his iden-
tity. He started {, ward the police sta
| ton with his man, and on the way met
| Detectives Ned Weldon and George
Boyd, in whose hands he placed him.
1t will be Remembered that a letter
| from this man to Senator Minis a few
days ago caused the enator's son,
Charles H Mills. 10 secure leave from
the authorities to o armed for the pro-
lection of his ia her. This was the
cause of bringing the MANS acts more
| prominently before the pablic. For sew
eral months past re las been writing
similar letters to a nuirber Of prominent
public men, anon Hhsn were Vice
President Stevens Rtor German,
| Senator Mills, Senator size, ,lislfl 'anu, as
the man himself cl aims, President Cleve-
land and Secretary Of War Lamont.
As long ago as during the fight over
the silver question in the senate Vice
| President Stevenson received letters al
most daily from Donjon, who was then
in Newark. n. j. No attention was paid
to them and they were consigned to the
waste basket as fast as they arrived.
The vice-president today received one
which was dated from 3o4 Leigh-st, this
city.
The CranlS's story.
a number of reporters We're at the
First precinct police station 10 see the
man and he talked very freely to all Of
them. He is twentyteight years old.
about five feet ten inches in hight,
weighs $50 or 100 pounds, is dark and
saIow, has a greasy complexion. small
dark moustache and a rather slouchy
look about him. He has the dropping
eyelids which usually accompany
brooding and melancholy disposition.
The mans manner of relating his story
gives ample evidence that he does not
belle his appearance in this respect. He
talks very nationally and with a rather
studied effort to avoid any appearance
Of bitterness or the expression Of any
anarchisuc views.
laws stress upon the assertion that he
Is a catholic and processes a degree Of
pfety. His story is that he came TO this
country when he was fifteen years old.
He had been a telegraph operator In the
old country. He manifested consider
able pride in his nationality, but denied
with spirit the public statement that he
is "Pollack" He gave up telegraph
ing when he came 10 this country be
cause there was some slight difference
I'm the instruments and in the alphabet
under these circumstances, he con-
tinued "if 1 had secured a Job they
would have sent me to some remote Of
fee in the far West, where there are
coyotes and cougars and other danger
Gus creatures"
Donton became a bench molder after
he came here and claims TO have worked
for a. time at Salem, o., as well as IN
the wine mills at Johnstown at the time
~ the great flood there, but was in Pitts
burg on that particular occasion. Later,
with his father, mother and brother.
he went TO Newark, n. J., and last May,
having been long out Of employment,
went west to Washington and Idaho and
prospected for gold there. He tells
rather fearful tale OF the dangers ne en-
countered from rough miners in that
country and says that no man who was
not willing TO spend his earnings I'm
drunkenness and debauchery was per-
rnttted 10 stay there. He went back to
Newark and claims TO have been en-
deavoring to secure work there ever
since He says he lived with his father,
mother and brother at 12S Burnett-st
This agrees with the address of the
earlier letters received from him here.
He claims that his father and brother
went to Florida to take up lands, but
that he dld not think it was worth while
TO go. as he could get nothing TO do any
where.
With considerable emphasis Donjon
denies that he is an anarchist or social
ist or ever attended any meetings of
those bodies but contends that he was
prevented from securing employment
because he was not a member of the
Knights of Labor or any other labor
union.
Inspired by Others.
AS to the letters that he has been
writing Donjon claims that he was in
cited to write them by other people. re-
cejving 500 for doing it, Asked as to
the character of the persons who did
this. he disclaimed that they We're an
arehists or that they formed any asso-
ciation They were merely private per-
sons. He also denies that there were
any threats in the letters he had writ
ten or any references whatever to dyna-
mite.
II never saw dynamite and would not
know II IL l saw it," he said. When
asked what right he had TO compose
such letters at the bidding of other peo-
pie he simply inquired, What right
have you to write down what l am