The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-30

factory at EllZdDetn street ana CdTy
avenue, last Wednesday morning he
was astonished to find the first of the
threatening letters in his mail. 1t was
written in pencil, but the subscription
on the envelope was in black ink in the
same handwriting. The letter was leg
IDLE, and was characterized by many
flourishes of the school-boy description.
A curious thing about this letter, as
we'll as the one which followed 1t, was
the absense of punctuation, while not
a word was misspelled. Both letters
were on white note paper and inclosed
in white envelopes. In both cases the
top half of the second leaf of the sheet
had been torn off, presumably to OBJ
literate the water mark on the paper.
The first letter read as follows, when
properly punctuated:
Port Richmond, Aug. 90 1901.-P. j.
Brown: We now write you asking for
the sum of $500. and also ask you to
have it on hand tomorrow evening,
Wednesday.
I'VE won't ask you TO leave your
home, only have it when we send
messenger for it.
Now, Brown, don't get excited and
telephone for the police, thinking they
will save you and your money. Re-
member we are prepared for anything
that comes our way.
If you don't do as we tell you, you
are the loser, at any risk or expense,
because we intend to make an example
of you, providing you don't do exactly
as we tell you.
1--WE will engage a messenger boy and
send him to your house on Taylor
street, West New Brighton, Wednesday
evening. He will hand you note. Be
on hand and have the lady folk away.
That is, if you don't intend to give up
the gold, because before many hours a
dynamite bomb will blow up your
house and all who are in it to atoms.
Remember what happened TO old
man Ross because he did not do as he
was bid do. Remember what Cudahy
would have gone through if he had not
done as he was told. Anarchists.
At first Mr.. Brown was inclined TO
treat the letter lightly, but the more he
thought of it the more it worried him.
He said nothing to members of his fam
lily, but reported the matter to Sergt.
Cobb, in charge of the sub-police sta
ton at West New Brighton. The lat
ter stationed men in civilian clothes
about the Brown house that night, but
the expected messenger did not appear.
A watch was kept on the house
throughout Thursday without result.
On Friday morning Mr.. Brown re-
ceiVed a second letter. 1t was post
marked Port Richmond, while the first
one had been mailed at West Brighton.
The second missiye was directed as
we'll as written in pencil. 1t revealed
a discrepancy in the plot, mentioning
Tuesday night as the time when the
messenger was to have called for the
money, whereas the first letter had
fixed Wednesday night as the date. The
letter read:
S. l., Aug. %.
Mr.. Brown:
l suppose you were watching for our
messenger Tuesday night. Am sorry,
but better late than never. That was
only one of our mysterious moves. But
don't think we have given up, for we
will never give up until all is settled.
We hope you are prepared to deliver
that $500 at our notice. We have
changed our plan a little, on account
of certain things. Now, here are your
last orders. Do it, Or
We ask you to put that money in
package-not an envelope. Better
make them IS notes and mail them to
William Baker, Port Richmond, S. I.
Mail it Friday evening. Put no marks
on the bills, and for your own sake
don't tell the policemen our sake, but
your own.
This will be the last letter you will
get from us, so act promptly and avoid
a lot of trouble. We mean business,
and when out messenger calls Satur-
day night for that package at the gem
eral postoffice, p. R., don't have de-
tective there to grab him, because that
will put your future happiness up in
smoke and perhaps all the family. Do
as we say or stand the result, which
will come sure. Anarchists.
This letter also was turned over to
the police, and arrangements were
made to capture its author Mr.. Brown
mailed a package as directed, except
that it contained only pieces of paper
instead of money, and POSTMASTER
Frank Foggin, of Port Richmond, was
taken into the secret.
Policemen in plain clothes loitered
about the postoffice window all day
Saturday but nobody asked for a
package for william Baker" The
same tactics were employed on Mon
day.
1t had begun to look as though the
affair was a hoax, when, as the Of
flee was about to close at p. m. three
barefooted and poorly clad boys en-
tered. The largest of the trio, stepping>
up to the window. asked:
rs there any package here for Will
liam Baker,"
T. The postmaster replied that there
was, DuL mat ne COulQ not enITuSI IL
to a boy. and Baker must come after
1t himself. The three boys went out
and were followed by Policemen Cahill
and Cary. who had been on guard. The
latter saw the lads stop several times
and hold whispered conversations, and
when the youngsters seemed to be
about to separate all three were ar.
rested.
When taken to the police station two
of the boys gave the names of George
and Edward Tallaksen, and the third
said he was Harold Scott, nine years
old, of No. Sc Hatfield avenue. 1t was
George Tallaksen, nine years old, who
had asked for the package. According
named Baker, who had visited his par
ents when they lived in New Jersey,
had met him on the street and sent
him to the postoffice, but later he con-
fessed that his father had ordered him
to go after the package. A policeman
then went to the Tallaksens' home and
arrested him.
Tallaksen and the three boys were
arraigned yesterday morning before
Magistrate John Croake at New
Brighton Tallaksen denied that he
was concerned in the dynamite plot.
He said he was not an Anarchist, but
a Christian, and 1t was learned later
in the neighborhood where he resides
that he has the reputation of being an
extremely devout man.
Magistrate Croake. after a brief
hearing, adjourned the examination
,,atiI to-dau He obtained aa,1apIa