The sun., 1902-10-16
THIEF THREATENS DYNAMITE,
RyT HIS SATCHEL CONTAINED
ONLY MORPHINE TABLETS.


HE'LL Blow Them p tnieSs tie e'ets
Their Jewels-Inspired by . News.
paper story-A Victim Of Drugs.
Henry Dawson, a young bookkeeper out
OF employment. is locked up in the West
Side police court prison for threatening
to blow up Mrs. Amy q. Watkins and her
daughter Mabel with dynamite unless
they handed over TO him their jewelry
and money. When Dawson made the
threat he had small hand satchel which
he said contained dynamite. As a matter
Of fact, there was nothing in II but bottle
Of morphine tablets. His appearance in
dicates that he was In the habit Of using
the drug.
Last Thursday burglars got into Mrs.
Watkins's apartments IN the Rosedale,
ut ss4 Seventh avenue. and carried away
several dresses. An evening yellow in
its account OF the robbery said that the
thieves had overlooked several thousand
dollars worth Of jewelry. The clippings
from the newspaper was found in Daw-
sons pocket after his arrest.
Mrs. Watkins and her daughter live alone
In the Rosedale. At 0 o'clock yesterday
morning Dawson was directed to her apart
ment by the hallboy To Mrs. Watkins.
who opened the door. Dawson said he rep
resented law firm and had called in re-
gard to some Western property which
81 Louis relative had left to her.
Dawson's appearance bore out his story.
With his black suit he wore a white collar
and tie and patent leather shoes. A pair
of gloves showed the finger tips above his
coat pocket. He carried a small. new hand
bag, such as used by lawyers.
Mrs Watkins told Dawson that she had
Io relatives there but she invited him into
the dining room and gave him a chair near
the window. She placed herself at the din
ing room table
Dawson took from his pocket several
sheets OF legal cap paper and handed them
to Mrs. Watkins.
Read that carefully" he said. in low
voice. -and don't get excited"
Mrs. Watkins was about to 60 for her
glasses when her daughter, who is %
years old, came in.
Mrs. Watkins handed the papers over to
her. Read it," shc said. My glasses
are not here"
Miss Watkins read to herself the first few
, lines. They were as follows.
Kindly read the following words without
comment, and. above all. do not show any
undue surpri.". In the bag that YOU. see
wreck the entire room. aud If I should. per
chance let the bag fall. no doubt both YOU
and would perish.
Il think that had better read it aloud.
mother" said the girl. Shall II"
The girl began the reading once again,
this time aloud When she finished 'he
first paragraph Mrs. Watkins jumped
up and ran 10 the hallway, where she
pounded on the door to the adjoining apart
ment. When she was robbed last week
the tenant in the other apartment told her
that loaded revolver was always kept
han i1g near the door.
The revolver the revolver'- shouted
Mrs. Watkins. I'VE have burglars again.
At this Dawson rose and drew a loaded re-
volver First he pointed II at Mrs Wat kins.
who was only a few feet away. She rushed
into the main hallway and shouted down
Murder! Murder. Thieves! Get a po-
lceman'"
Dawson hestated moment when he
heard the woman scream, and then ran
out and down the stairway. He was caught
by John McClane, clerk in a drug store
on the ground floor, who held him until
Policeman Glennon OF the West Forty
seventh street station came up.
Mrs. Watkins and her daughter went
along TO the station house with Glennon
and his prisoner. They took the empty
satchsl and the threatening paper with
them. After the first paragraph it read
n has come 20 my knowledge that you
have several thousand of dollars worth OF
iamonds | want them at once. IL YOU do
not give them TO me- | shall drop the bag
DO not FAY 70 yoaarSie,i that lie will no, do
! do not fear death; II ] do not have money
by TO- morrow might better be dead than
This is the position l am in: I have. been
going with fast companions. and in order to
keep up the pace | took inoney--s large
aInount--from the firm that am employed
with. If cannot replace IL by tomorrow
my crime will he discovered and ] shall go
lam OF good family and rath her than be q
disgrace TO them, lingering out n term OF
wears in prison ] would prefer death | do
not say that II Is my wish to die. No Que
stances II becomes necessary
Crime il not my trade, and, when replace
the money that took from my employers,
avoiding the old companions and leaving cards
and wine alone.
Al the station house Mrs Watkins be-
"ame weak from nervousness that she
had to go back home II was nearly noon
before she was able TO go with her dsugh-
ter to the West Side police court, where She
formally charged Dawson with attempted
robbery.
Dawson refused to answer any quest ions,
further. than to say he was 81 years old
He looks ten years older. He admitted
that the name he gave was not his own.
He waived examination and Magst rate
Cornell fixed his bail at 81 500
Dawson said that his family. which was
good one, would not come to his assist :
snce. as they would never know of his
trouble. He would tell not hing Of him
self. except that he had girl and was
anxious to go away with her"