The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-19
A Complete Set Found With
7. J. Wilson.
The Man Was Arrested on Suspicion
Yesterday.
He Also Had Big Supply Of Dyna-
mite With the Jimmies.

The dungeon under the city hall steps
has within its walls man who was ar
rested by the detective department last
evening as he was about To leave Tor New
York.
Chief detective Parker first saw the man
with two Others Saturday afternoon, ana
was convinced at the time that they were
old crooks and he, with Others OF the
force, kept an eye on them the remainder
of the day and yesterday.
The men went down the bay yesterday
and returned early in the evening and one
of the two went to the Narragansett
Hotel, where he had an ordinary hand
bag checked. Detectives Reardon and
Merrill were then sent to the hotel 10
watch the handbag, and at 8. do last even
ing the man called for the bag and
started for the Union Station.
BY this time Mr.. Parker was positive
that the man and his companions were
burglars, and placed the one with The
bag under arrest. The prisoner made a
desperate attempt to get away from Mr..
Parker, but Merrill and Reardon went TO
his assistance and the man was marched
over to the city hall.
At the hall the man gave his name
as Thomas j. Wilson. The bag con-
tanned q set of burglar tools and lot OF
| dynamite.
A paper In which the tools were done
up was stamped with the name OF New
| York firm of hardware dealers, White,
| Van Claim Il Co., Is, 10 and IL Chatham
| square, and 4, g and Catharine street.
| A piece of a recent issue OF the New York
| Sun covered the dynamite box.
= On the mans person was found a
loaded six-shooting, self-cocking, self
ejector, 32-calibre Hopkins Il Allen re-
volver, OF the same pattern carried by
| the local police. His watch and chain
were of gold, the chain being OF an old
| fashioned design, to which was attached
an empty plain gold locket, engraved
with the monogram T. }. W. The watch
was an American Waltham movement,
ber 4453i24. The openface case was OF
rather ornate pattern and gold filled; its
4 mum ber was 3574S4.
| A ticket, stamped Aug. Is, on the New
York, New Haven q Hartford road,
marked from East Lyme and Mantle tg
New Haven, a Brooklyn Bridge railroad
! ticket, some court plaster and some small
! change completed the list OF things found
on his person.
The prisoner Is man about 40 years OF
| age, feet 3 inches in height, and weighs
about 1875 pounds and has slight, almost
| imperceptible,, cast in the left eye. His
| shoe, of the cork-soled variety, measured
| 10lo inches. A noticeable thing about the
fellow was the shape OF his hands, which
were rather gracefully turned and very
muscular.
The man has the appearance OF being 9
| machinist, and a person that would be
! looked upon as rather an agreeable mar
to meet. When asked by Mr.. Parker what
his name was and where he came from h'
answered, "You will find out all about
me without my telling you anything"
The man was taken TO Photographic
this morning and in a day or two pic
ture of Wilson will adorn the Rogue
Gallery at the City Hall.
Now that the police have burglar, o.
o supposed burglar, they do not know
what to do with him, as 1t is not Grim
nal act to carry kit OF burglar tools
and unless the common law can b
twisted about to fit Wilson'S case, he will
be sent out of town as a suspicious per
son, unless Mr.. Parker can find som
city or town that wants him. The de
tective says that il Rhode Island had law
like Massacu hsetts that the man would b
sent to state prison for at least 10 years
that being what John Darling, the well
known burglar got short time ago 70
being found in Boston with a kit of tool
similar to those found in possession Q
Wilson. Besides the tools found Il
Wilson's bag were a lot OF silk handker
chiefs ana the very best Of underwear
The police department have referred tn
case to the city solicitor in hopes that b
may find some..law that will enable the
to hold the man.