Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
AS 4 PRISONER
MRS. THOMAS
IS CALM
BRIEFLY ASSERTS HER lNN0-
.CENCE OF THE SWINDLING
CHARGE-''AM | A BL0NDE?"
SIZE NAMELY ASKS.

Mrs. Lettie Thomas, wife of DR.. R. H.
Thomas, the alleged crook now being held
in the Tower on so many charges, was
brought from Winder Saturday night and
locked up at police headquarters, where
she will be held until it can be learned
whether she is the woman wanted in Sa-
vannah for swindling jewellers of that city
out of $4,000 worth of diamonds. The jew
elers in Savannah think Mrs. Thomas is
the woman who swindled them They say
the picture of her printed in The Journal
on the 10th is a very good likeness OF
the woman who robbed them.
Mrs Thomas says she has not been in
Savannah since she was years old. She
takes her arrest very quietly.
st have nothing to fear. have not
been in Savannah since, / was years
old. I was sick last August, part of the
time in Kentucky and part of the time in
Winder I don't know whether l had
come home when the diamonds were TAX
en- in Savannah AS soon as the Sa-
vannah people see me they will say 1 am
not the woman.
This sort of thing is very annoying
and humiliating, but 1 do not blame any
one for IT. 1 suppose they thought that
picture like the woman who took the
diamonds. 1t certainly was not any too
much like me. The Savannah woman is
a blonde, the papers say. Now, am
blonde or brunette?"
In the sunlight one would say Mrs.
Thomas is a blonde and this unhesitat-
ingly, but at police headquarters last
night, as she asked the question under an
electric light, it would be hard to tell.
She is not decided type. In the day
her hair looks much lighter than by arti-
fetal light. Her complexion is that of
blondes.
some say am a blonde and some say
I am a brunette" she continued. Now
1 don't think am either. 1 am just in
between
Dr. S. A. Foster, Mrs. Thomas father,
and Attorney f. C. Shackleford, of Ath-
ems, accompanied the officer and his pris-
oner back to Atlanta.
Efforts were made that night to have
Mrs. Thomas released on bond, but 1t
could not be arranged. Attorney Shack
leford and DIR. Foster secured parties who
were willing to sign Mrs. Thomas bond,
but they left police headquarters before
Judge Landrum, in whose court the war
rant was taken out, could come from his
home. The matter was discussed at
length BY the judge and the chief of po-
lice and 1t was decided not to accept bond
She will not be held any longer than is
necessary. AS soon as the Savannah au-
thorities send some one to identify her,
the chief intends to let her go, if she is
not the party wanted. And the Savan-
nah people must send within reasonable
time or she will be released any way.
Mrs Thomas says she has been i'll as a
result of the excitement incident to her
arrest.
She is through with Thomas she says.
She was asked - she intended to institute
divorce proceedings and said she would
not. as the conviction of a felony dissolved
the matrimonial bonds and she expected
Thomas to be convicted.
Why She Was Arrested.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Nov. 1.-The atten-
ton of the Savannah police has been d.
rected very forcibly to the arrest Of r. H.
Thomas in Atlanta, for the theft Of dia-
monds by the fact that his wife was with
him. The police cannot help thinking Of
the recent robbery Of two jewellers here
by woman who disappeared and has not
been found. The gullibility of Mrs Thorn
as first attracter the Savannah authori-
ties to her. She seemed to be so anxious
to direct attention to her husbands evil
ways that she has aroused the curiosity
of the Savannah officers.
When shown a copy. of The Atlanta
Journal containing the picture of Mrs.
Thomas Mr.. Des Boullions said that the
picture very much resembled the woman
who visited him. She said she was the
niece of ]. Henry Blum, president of the
Germania bank and got $1,000 worth of
jewelry. 'Thot looks like the woman, -
he said. At Theus Bros, where the wo-
man operated In Savannah and got 5000
worth of jewels, saying she was a niece
of ]. P. Williams, a prominent naval
stores factor and president of the Savan-
nah Cotton Exchange, 1t was sctated
that the picture resembled the woman.
The Atlanta police have been furnished
with a description of the jewels secured
in Savannah.
Mrs. Thomas Is Released.
The Savannah authorities failed to
identify Mrs. Thomas as the woman they
wanted, and she has been released.