Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-27
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WASHINGTON, pev- q The poisc~ oi
shis city tsink taes have sasae an inapor-
saas esptarv in The person ef Jessph Don,
5oa, who aas naasse hussneSs al writing
threatening lesters 10 paelie eIl:sisls here.
A letter sron this assa 10 Senator Mills
few days ago caused sAe senstar's san,
Charles II. Mills. 60 secure leave frSsa the
SEshaFities 10 ge araseSl for the protection
OF his fsther. This vas the esase OF
bringing the aaaa's acts more prominently
before the puhlie
Fer several months psst he has been
writing siniiSr Letters To number of
prominent aablie men. smeas whom
were Sias President Stevenson, Senator
finrnlsu, Sessator Mills, senator sherman
and, as the nNsp himself clailus, President
Cleveland and SECRETARY Lamont 81
long ssso as during the fight ever the sll-
yer question ia the senate Vice presislen,
Stevenson received letters alsaest daily
from poNjun. who was then in Newark,
n J, No attention was paid 10 them
The vice president yesterday received a
letter which was dated from Sa Leigh
street. tAis city,
A fala With Reporters.
4 number Of reporters we're at the po-
lice station TO see the man, aud he talked
very fresiy lie is ~ years cid, dark and
sal,ow, and has greasy complexion and
rather sleuehy hook lie has the ,lrcop.
ing eyc}isls -fhieh usually accompany a
brcsading and melancholy dis sositisa He
tAlkS very ratienalis and with rather
studied ehor, to avoid any appearance ~
bitterness or the expression OF any an
archistie views,
nonian Is AN AUSTRIAN by lFah aud laws
stress on thn assertion that he Is Catho.
lie and proiesssss degree vi picty liis
story Is that he came to this country
wheu IS years old. he had been q tel,.-
graph operator. but gave MP this work be-
cause there WAS some slight difference In
the Instruments ansi the alphabet, Under
those circumstances he continued "if
had secured q ioh they would have sent
me TO Some remote Office la the far west
where there arr eoyates aud cougars and
other dangerous cts-afures." la this the
prisoner showed fantastic apprehension
that was characteristic ~ the tone OF his
whole recital
Was Afraid OF Miners.
He became a bench moulder after he
came here and claims 20 have worked for
a time la .)hin. Later with his father and
mother aud brother he went to Newark
Nj. Last May, bring ont oi employment.
he went west TO Washington and Idaho.
and he tells a rather fearful tale of the
dangers he encountered from rough
miners in that country while prospecting
for gold. 1hrn he went back go Newark
and lived with his parents and brothers
asI f,ssts .t4Fft "a
the address of the earlier letters received
from him here
lie contends that he WAS prcyented from
securing employment becartsn be was not
a member " the Knights of Labor or any
other labor uniun. IA 90 the letters he
has bccn writing, he ciainis ihat he was
melted 10 write them by otber people. re-
ociying slO0 Tor doing it, Asked a. 60 The
character Of the persons who did this, he
diseIaimed TINT they were anarchist, or
that they formed any association. They
wer, merely private persons He also do
nies that thcre We're any threats ia the let
ters or any reierence 70 dynamite II
never saw dynamite. aud wouldn't know
il If saw it, sttGd bc.
When asked what right he had Ia com
pose such letters at the bidding of other
thAIttNs nc NiA'tisif NAtAihi"'H W bttt lIkNi
have yuu 20 write down what | am telling
you. IT was simply business went into
80 make living Just as YOU write news
for the newspapers.
Was Waiting For Answers.
lie claimed that al that was contained
In any of lhe letters were proposition to
each Of The men addressed 90 forward
him The cost of transportation 90 Wash
ingion and Eu utler to come on there aud
make a business proposition Ia them.
The Insn c,unp tu Washington three
days ago FROM Baltimore Sunday he fell
IN with q Gtrnan en n trneh ia one Of
tbc puhiia parks Tha piau WAS drunk,
but spoke SOME words If ohruuTagement,
and told him that be was out pf work,
too, but gave him quart -r and hoped he
nigh; ,o4n fjad employment tie thou0ht
the best timing ie could lie aith the qnar-
ter Waa o. grt some postal rAri4 sHd
mako aHuCher effort tp sccurc answers
from thom t1 hom he bal la'gi sgRdinp.
lie ieok jodgiuRs aHd waited all yestet
day flr some ore to HpIeRr ia reply to biz
postal cards, but 30 aBr tame. iia then
determined, hc says. to start ont to look
for Chief Drummond and brought up in
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