Show CERTAINLY A CRAXIC A Fellow Who Has Been Writing Letters to Public Hen Washington Dec 25 Joseph Donjon the man who has been writing threatening threat-ening letters t a number of prominent public men during the last two weeks is in jail tonight A letter from this man to Senator Mills a few days ago caused the senators sena-tors son to secure leave from the authorities au-thorities to g ire for the protection of his father For several months past he has bc n writing similar letters to a number of prominent public men among them VicePresident Stevenson Senators Gorman Mills Sherman and President Cleveland and Secretary Lament d La-ment During the fight over the silver question in the Senate VicePresident Stevenson received letters almost dally from Donjon then in Newark N J The vicepresident today received one dated from 404 Leigh street in this city Donjon talks very rationally and with a rather studied effort to avoid any appearance of bitterness or the expression ex-pression of any anarchistic views He is an Austrian by birth and lays stress upon the assertion that he is a Catho lc and professes piety As to the letters he has been writing he claims he was incited to write them by other people receiving 100 for doing it He disclaimed they were anarchists or had formed any association and said they were merely private persons He denies any threats in the letters or any references whatever to dynamite I never saw dynamite and would not know i if I saw i he said He claimed that all that caimed al was con wa cn tine in any of the letters was ay leters wa a proposition to each of the men ad dressed to forward forwar him the cost of transportation to Washington and an offer to come on there and make a business proposition to them The man tells a connected story but the police put no faith in the assertion that he was incited to write the letters by other persons |