The Potteries Examiner : — 1875-12-18 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TIII ERCAN.—On Monday been iientifiA, and eight per.ns were missing,. There afternoon Mr. W. S. Poole, coroner, held an impiest at 8 were in all 68 killed and 35 wounded. A cabin pas, Clemens street, Leamington, on the body of the Rev. senger attempted to commit since!. R. T. Saunders, who died suddenly there on Saturday BREMEN, Tuesday—The Weser Zeittong of this morning. The deceased, who was about seventy years morning asserts that the ex iminatioa of the man of age, and was formerly curate in charge of BunningThomas, who attempted suicide immediately after the ham, Warwickshire, and was in lodgings at 8, Cd.mensexplosion occurred, on the quay, has elicited a confe-• street. On Saturday morning, at about eleven o'clock, sins that it was his intention to blow up the steamer on be asked Mrs. Mayo ,cll, the landlady, to bring him up her voyage across the Atlantic by means of a self- BOW warm water, and shortly afterwards' when she exploding, barrel, awl that he Was to have Miami in the entered his room with it, she Mewl bins dead in a chair. insurance money with the parties. It has liven weer- The evidence disclosed some painful facts with reference 1 tamed that the man Thomas, arrested in connection to the way in which he had subsisted. It appeared that with the dynamite explosion at Bremerhaven, and who he had an income of 255. a week ; but in consequence attempted to commit suicide, is an American, who of the urgent and pressing circumstances of a near relies been staying for six months at Strehlen, near lative he hat devoted this to the purpose of relieving Dresden. that person's necessiti.a. A letter was handed in, dated DRESDEN', Tuesday.—A domiciliary visit in connec- December 6, written by the deceased to a person in tion with the dynamite explosion at Bremerhaven has Birmingham, who had applies! to him for payment of , been paid to-day by the police to the residence of the an account for board and lodging supplied to the indi. American, Thomas (the passenger by the Mosel who visual alluded to. In that letter the deceased distiuctly att<mpted to commit suicide). The author:ties, how. denied hie IMbility,. having mule no promise to pity. ever, failed to make any discovery throwing light upon He added, " You will be sorry to learn that I have now the matter. nothingba wherewith to help him, or subsist ui.o myself. I have dno duty for six months. --- is in a BREMEN " , W"4".l.s.—The man . Th.....in, not most destitute state. I heir the Workhome will have Thomas. as at first announced, has confessed to the to be his home, at least for a time. He walked from authorities conducting the judicial enquiry, that he con- . Birmingham on Thursday hut to see me. He fainted structed the chest which ezaloded at Bremerhaven, and three times on the way. He racked Leamington at that he fitt,a it with an interior clockwork, . con- eleven o'clock at night. I could only give him a few structed as to cause an explosion at a certain time. It shillings to return home with, which! ' borrowed.' " l be clearly determined what ex- Her some furthei remarks respecting the person does not yet appear to a h the the hest also alluded A ' plosive compound was use ,or we r ec.. alluded to, the deceasei proceedel—" Witl. regard to Icontained any bombs. Thomassin was occupied during myself, I now owe my present landlord three months' the huf:eo or te:t atoirgl li,i,t ihr tsoi n::;l:l Bremen,i ect ht the hoeehwae chest !,,s wiLutp:h,;lie,ciolefpi BELG lUM. upon 81. a day. I subsist upon bread and milk, and I' No., Thur.das.—A v.rribie firvump sometimes only bread and water. This I have done in ' orwer to i.e.', died at 425 p.m. tatlay, in the hospital. In his con- suited from natur because I know what great trials , al cau.ses was returned. had __ gian Framers. Colhery, near Mons. One hundred and i non were killed and eleven wounded. i teU Pe ' rent for my rooms. I have lived for some time past occurred this morning in the La Cour shaft of the Bel. some packing materials lc piet':he: 's ie. 7;eo;11, i oi fee.nde 'III dy a i. i Eridence in corroboration of this statement was ' Tut:moss EVlNlNki.—Thomson alias Thomason, ; given by the lanalord. A verdict that death re