The New York papers produce evidence that the man Thomassen,
alias Alexander, did his best to get a box of specie, as he called it, insured on the White Star steamer ' Celtic,' from Liverpool to New York, which reached New York on the 24th October last, but failing, brought the box which he called the box of specie, uninsured. The box was still in the offices of the Company at New York, and being opened, was found to contain bags of shot, and nothing else. It was about the size of the boxes in which the clockwork for exploding the dynamite was con- tained. As Thomassen only desired to insure his worthless box for £6,000, it does not look as if he had many or any accomplices in the plot. £6,000 would have been little enough for one criminal who was running such a risk. He represented the box as con- taining £6,000 in specie, and it was just about of the requisite weight to pass for such a box.
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