Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-01
REVISED LIST is
80 dead. 5 HURT
Continued From Page Two.
today took A. A. Thaxter's body to
Portland, Me-, for interment.
EMPLOYE SAID He
WOULD WRECK SHOP
The New York Herald this morning

The New York Herald this morning
said
A boasting, half drunk Frenchman,
who had loudly proclaimed his enmity
for his native country and his cham
pionship of the cause OF Germany in
4 the European conflict, made the dec
laration last Thursday evening in an
Eighth avenue cafe in the neighhor-
hood OF the Pennsylvania station that
for $4,000 he would blow up the du-
POnt de Nemours Powder Company's
Folant In which he was employed near
Philadelphia"
information TO this effect was brought
10 the Herald last night by another
frcnchman. who was m conversation
with the individual who made the state
ment and who declared that the stranger
had displayed an employees red card to
prove his statement that he was in the
employ of the powder company. For OBJ
Vious reasons. pending an investigation
of the identity of the man who made
the statement and his movements after
he left the cafe, neither the name of the
man who gave TIE information nor the
exact location of the cafe can be made
public.
According TO the statement how
ever the man who gave the informa-
ton stopped in the cafe. which is a
block from his home, just before 6
O'Clock Thanksgiving evening. He was
drinking a glass Of wine when the
stranger entered. The man walked
mp TO the bar and purchased flask
OF whiskey, for which he paid twenty
five cents. Then he asked the bar
keeper, German. question which
tho latter was unable TO understand.
because Of the strangers inability to
speak English well.
The barkeeper referred the stranger
TO the Frenchman drinking his glass
OF wine at the other end OF the bar
To the latter. he made known his de
sire TO learn the leaving time o
trains over the Pennsylvania Rail
road for Philadelphia. The desired in
formation was secured from tim
tables kept in the cafe and IN
stranger thanked the Frenchman Pre-
fusely. explaining as he did so this
he had been employed for sewers
months in DUPONT plant a littl
more than ten miles outside of Phil;
delphia.
With this as basis a general cor
versation followed. during which
was made plain that the stranger ha
been drinking heavily. He ASSERTED
the Herald's informant said, that h
had come to this country from Franc
five years ago and then displayed tn
employees card to prove his statemen
regarding his place Of employment. II
said he was an engineer, but his state
ment that he was paid $3.75 a day le'
10 the belief that he was a statiOnar.
engineman. The conversation was pro
ceeding pleasantly when suddenly tn
stranger began to talk OF the war ant
entered upon a denunciation of thu
Entente Allies. Then it was. according
TO the Heralds informant. that thu
man said:
III I could find a German who woull
give me $4,000 ! could blow up IN
whole plant where / work"
The remark drew the indignation O
the Frenchman with whom he wa
talking. who told him to get out o
the cafe or he would be thrown out
He demurred at first, but when IN
Frenchman made plain his intention Z
complete his threat the stranger LEI
the place.