The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-07 00:00:00

INDIA% LITERATURE.

The C,alcutta Government Gazette gives a list of the
works published in Bengal during the second quarter
of last year. They amount to 889 books and pamphlets,
of which 276 are described as educational. Accom-
panying the list is a short account of each work, pre-
pared by the native librarian of the Government.
Some of his remarks are interesting. Thus he says
of one book, called " Sabhana," that it urges the
Bengalees to adopt the English dress, marriage
institutions, and style of living. The characters,
male and female, are represented as smarting
under the injustice and oppression of the Eng-
lish rulers of the country, as refusing to marry
until their country's situation is improved, and as
organising themselves into an association pledged to
forego self and to live for the country alone. Another
book, called " Deba,duta," traces the mental and phy-
sical degeneration of the Hindoos to the fact that the
Fnglish are allowed to slaughter cows in India. The
author abuses the English for eating beef, and the
summary goes on to say, "declaims against them in
a style of vituperation which for rabidness and violence
seems unsurpassable, and which is calculated to azcite
against them feelings of hatred and resentment in
the Inliaa

THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGES
REWARDS TO THE POLICE.
FURTHER ARRESTS.

Sir E. Y. W. Henderson, Commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police, has received the following com-
munication from Sir W. V„ Harcourt, Home Secre-
tary :

"28th January, 1885..
"I have to-day, by the personal command of the
Queen, conveyed to Police-constables Cole and Cox
her Majesty's high sense of the courage and devotion
which these brave men have shown in the discharge
of their duties on the occasion of the recent explosion
in Westminster Hall, and her Majesty's hope that
they may have a speedy recovery from the serious
injuries they have sustained.
"The gallant conduct of Police-constable Cole,
who, knowing 'fnll well the terrible risk he incurred,
endeavoured at the peril of his life to remove the
burning explosive from the building, demands a
special recognition. That by this daring act of s 'lf-
sacrifice he averted greater disaster cannot be doubted;
and I have had the pleasure b inform him that, in
addition to the professional reward he will receive, it
is her Majesty's intention to confer upon him the dis-
tinction of the Albert Medal. _ _

" As the official head of the Metropolitan Police, it
is my agreeable duty to request you to exorees to
these men the public feeling of admiration and re-
spect which is universally entertained for their
behaviour on this occasion. Personally they have
long been well known and esteemed by the members
of the House of Commons, and their sufferings are
regarded with particular sympathy by all its mem-
bers, as those of men with whom they are well
acquainted. I have to request that you will take
ogre that upon their recovery, of which I am rejoiced
to know there is every hope, well-merited rewards
shall be Conferred upon them.
"You will communicate to the force, to which these
men have done such distinguished honour, the appro-
bation which their single-minded courage and un-
shrinking devotion to their duty has earned for them
in the opinion of the Queen, of their official superiors.
and of all their countrymen.
(Signed)

"W. V. HARCOMIT."

The Prince of Wales on Saturday paid a visit to
Westminster Hall and the House of Commons, and
inspected the damage done by the recent explosions.
In consequence of threatened explosions at several of
the public buildings in the Metropolis, extra sentries
of the Foot Guards were on Sunday for the first time
placed on duty at the back of the Admiralty offices,
on the Horse Guards Parade, and also at the Gun
House, which adjoins the premises in rear of the -
Admiralty. The front of the building is closely
watched by several plain-clothes constables.
A young man named Goodman was arrested
on Friday and taken by the police to Rochester-row
Police-station on suspicion. He was, however, after-
wards liberated. It seems that he is an artist, and
that he recently engaged his apartments at North-
street, Westminster. Having only a limited supply
of clothes with him, which he kept locked in a deal
box, suspicions were aroused, and the Superintendent
of Police at Rochester-rft Station was communi-
cated with. Detective-sergeant Preston, of the
Criminal Investigation Department, who was deputed
to watch the house, saw the man leave. From a
conversation he had with him he asked him to
accompany him to the Rochester-row Police.
station. Preston had Goodman's box placed on
a cab, and conveyed him to the station. He
was brought before Superintendent Rambling, B
division, and several other police offici•gs, by
whom a number of questions were put to him. He
answered them without the slightest reticence, and
produced his certificate of birth, showing that he was
an Englishman. He stated that his mother lived in
the neighbourhood of New-cross, and that he travelled
a good deal in America and throughout the Continent
of Europe. He raised no objection to his box being
examined, and nothing more dangerous than artist's
materials, a number of sketches, and clothes were
found in it. He was detained at the station but a
short time whilst inquiries were made as to his state-
ment and antecedents, and these having been verified
in every particular, he was at once liberated.
The police all along the Thaws banks have been
provided with peculiar whistles, at the sound of which
every man within hearing is to go immediately to the
spot whence it proceeds.
A large meeting of Irishmen was held in Man-
chester on Sunday to. hear an address by Mr. John
O'Leary. Cheers ere given for several prominent
Irishmen, and particularly for O'Donovan Ross%
Several references were made to the outrages in
London. A Mr. Byrne, who seconded one of the
resolutions, said he had read that because .a few
persons had disturbed a few bricks in London—
(cheers)—and so disturbei the hearts of many
Englishmen who deserved it long ago, five thousand
Irish people had been thrown out of employment.
Was this justice? Mr. J. O'Leary said it was with a
certain sense of shame that he felt called
upon to stand up in an assembly of Irish-
men to denounce the hideous folly and awful
criminality of the dynamite and dynamitards. (Hear,
hear, loud cries of "No, no," and "Its good for
work," and "An eye for an eye.") The use of dyna-
mite was a matter of pressing and present danger,
and of possible future ruin and destruction to Ireland.
Irish Nationalists in Scotland and England had a full
sense of the folly and criminality of these aimless
outrages. He had heard more than enough of Rossa
and Patrick Ford. Mr. Conolly, of Liverpool, ex-
pressed his regret that Mr. O'Leary-Should denounce
any means that would assist in obtaining freedom
for Ireland. (Cheers.) Mr. O'Leary said he had
never done so. He denounced the use of dynamite
because he was convinced that so far from assisting
Ireland to freedom it would still further enslave it.
Mr. O'Connor Power, M.P., in an address at the
Wheatsheaf Hall, Vauxhall, on Saturday night, under
the presidency of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty,
Mr. Caine, M.P., referring to the recent dynamite
outrages, said it was impossible to find language to
express adequately the mingled feelings of shame and
indignation, of humiliation and horror, with which
those atrocious crimes were regarded by all true
Irishmen. The political insanity by which they were
prompted must not be allowed to identif/ itself with
the national aspirations of Ireland. Every sincere
friend of liberty recoiled with loathing from the
cowardly criminals whose plots could only .destroy
the lives of brave and innocent men and helpless
women and children, while riveting more tightly than
ever upon Ireland the iron bonds of coercion and mis-
government. So long as these crimes continued un-
checked and unpunished Ireland could not know the
blessings of Constitutional freedom.

Philip Newbold, aged 29, who is employed at the
Midland Railway works, was charged, at the Derby
Police-court, on Saturday, with having, on January
26, unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously conspired
with certain other persons to cause, by means of a
certain explosive substance, an explosion in the United
Kingdom of a character likely to cause great damage
to the lives and property of the Queen's subjects.
Colonel Detacombe, chief constable of Derby, said
he merely proposed to lay before the Bench sufficient
evidence to justify them in remanding the prisoner
for a week. He had very important information in
his possession, and he did not care in the public
interest to disclose more of the facts than was abso-
lutely necessary for the purpose. He went on to state
that in the early part of that week he received a
communication from a chief constable of a county in
the South of England, stating that he had information
of a plot to blow up a Town Hall. In that commu-
nication there were enclosed a number of letters
which had come into the possession of the south-
country police, which related to the plot. There was
also enclosed am envelope on which were the name
and address of the prisoner Newbold. One of the
letters was written in a handwriting similar to a
letter that had been received by another county
chief constable on the same day that an attempt had
been made to blow up a bank. The envelope containing
the prisoner's address was received by the first-
mentioned chief constable, and would be shown to
be connected with the plot at a future inquiry. He
might mention that the letters showing the nature of
the conspiracy to blow up the Town Hall were written
from Derby, and although not in the handwriting
of the prisoner, the envelope containing his address
was enclosed in order that an answer might be
sent to him. He ordered inquiries to be made
as to whether there really was such a man as the
prisoner, and having ascertained that there was he
ordered him to be closely watched. A specimen of
the prisoner's handwriting was obtained, and it
showed beyond the possibility of a doubt that the
address given on the envelope was written by the
prisoner himself. In fact, he believed that the
prisoner would not deny that this was so. When
arrested and brought to the police-station, witness
put a number of questions to him. The prisoner at
first denied that he had ever sent any letters or
envelopes to anybody for any purpose. He also
denied that he had ever sent any one his address on
an envelope. Witness then administered the usual
caution, and charged him with the offence cited above.
He again denied all knowledge of any envelope or any
conspiracy. Witness then showed him the envelope in
question, and at length he admitted that it was in his
handwriting, but said he could not account for the
fact of its having got into the possession of other
persons. He also said he could not account for its
being enclosed with other letters referring to the con-
spiracy to blow up the Town Hall with dynamite.
Witness had not yet completed his inquiries with the
authorities in London and the two county chief con-
stables he referred to.
The prisoner, when asked whether he had anything
to say why he should not be remanded, remarked
that he was quite innocent of doing anything wrong.
He could not account at all for the envelope in his
handwriting which the chief constable had produced.
He was sometimes in the habit of inserting advertise-
ments in the newspapers, and possibly this envelope
had been sent in reply to an advertisement.
Prisoner, who seemed to be considerably agitated
during the inquiry, was then remanded for a week.

A story came to us the other day of an engineering
party in Dakota that had seatekthemselvas at their
dinner table in a tent when a party of cowboys rode
up. One of them dismounted, and thrusting his
pistol into the middle of a rice pudding that was
placed in the centre of the table called out: " Whlr
ever wants puddun must ask me I "

TRIAL OP CUNNINGHAM FOR THE
OUTRAGE AT THE TOWER.

At Bow-street, on the 2nd inst., the prisoner John
Gilbert 'Cunningham, alias Dalton, alias Gilbert, was
farther charged before Sir James Ingham with being
conceirned in, and causing, the recent explosion at the
Tower of London.
Mr. Poland, instructed by Mr. Stephenson, the
non. Hamilton Cuffe, and Mr. Pollard, prosecuted
,on behalf of the Treasury; Mr. W. H. Quilliam,
solicor, of ,Liverpool, appeared for the prisoner.
The prisoner is a young man, aged 22, and stands
about Ave feet five inches in height, with swarthy
complexion, broad features, dark brown hair (worn
smooth), dark eyes somewhat sunken, and no hair on
face. He has a scar on the top of the third finger of the
right hand, and another scar on the right fore-arm. He
Was dressed in a dark brown overcoat, black walking-
coat and vest, black and blue striped mixture trousers,
turn-down collar, light scarf, and black round felt hat.
He is a native of Gurtnamora, County Cork, and has
spent some years in America, and is supposed to have
spent some weeks recently in large towns where Irish
congregate. The prisoner was conveyed to the court
in a Nan usually engaged in carrying prisoners for the
G Division of the Metropolitan Police. There was
no mounted escort, as in the case of the men charged
ait h a similar offence last year, but on the line of
route from the House of Detention to the court,
extra constables were stationed, while the station
yard and approaches to the court were guarded by
a force of constables under Reserve Inspector
Ne) lan. On arriving at the court the prisoner was
handed over to the gaoler, Sergeant White, and
shortly afterwards was placed among a nuniber of
other men for the purpose of identification. He was
eeen by several witnesses, but only two constables of
the H Division pointed him out as having been seen at
the Tower previous to the explosion.
Mr. Poland said that in this case he was instructed
by the Solicitor to the Treasury to prosecute the
prisoner for the serious offence with which he stood
charged. He proceeded to say that he thought it
would be convenient that he should give a narrative
of the case, as he believed it would be afterwards
proved by witnesses who would be called. Mr.
Poland having gone over the evidence given last
week, said that on Saturday, January 24, be went
somewhere between twelve and one from Scarborough-
street, and, as was already known, he went to the
Tower. That was a free day, and a man having
taken his ticket at the bottom of the steps would go
up in the ordinary course to St. John's Chapel, and,
having got there, would proceed into the armoury,
where were stored Martini-Henry rifles and other
usiii,ary arms. In the adjoining room was all the
Old armour, and any man could wander about there
and have an opportunity of waiting until a con-
venient time came for depositing a machine which
would explode and do damage, without people in
ordinary circumstances noticing it before it did so. The
explosion took place as nearly as possible at two o'clock
in the afternoon, and the prisoner was there before it
took place. A little boy, who was present, saw some-
thing smoking on the ground, but thought somebody
had lighted a pipe and thrown down the fusee.
Directly afterwards he, his young companion,
.211 d two young women were knocked down
by the explosion. The shock broke in the
door by the wall and set fire to the building, which
was burning for about twenty minutes. Within four
minutes after the explosion the order was sent down
for the gates to be closed, and all the visitors to be
interrogated before they were allowed to leave. The
prisoner was one of the persens detained when the
gates were shut. It was stated that he had passed
through the armoury, and was going up some steps
at the time of
,t,hp
,explosion, but he thought the evi-
dence would 2114 that he had gone through several
'rooms, and when stopped was near to the drilling..
ground. Supposing the prisoner to have been guilty
,of causing the explosion, it was evident that he
would not have hurried away for fear of
raising suspicion. He admitted that he had
teen to America for about five years, and had
come back to England on the Adriatic, under the
name of Gilbert, while he had lived in Great Pres-
cot-street under the alias of Dalton, He also said he
had been in Liverpool, and it was found to be true
that, after he landed there from America, he had
lodged with a man named Stock, at 31, Robert-street.
The next thing ascertained was that the large Ameri-
can trunk was missing which he had formerly had in
in possession, and on being asked what had become
of is he denied that he had ever had such an article.
They fortunately had found the cabman, who would
speak as to the prisoner having had an American
trunk, which was placed in his room. Since the last
examination at that court the police had searched
the prisoner's effects, and from a pair of socks in a
black box Inspector Jarvis saw fall a small detonator,
which was handed to Colonel Majendie, who pro-
nounced it suitable for the explosion of dynamite.
The detonator had been also examined by Dr. Dupl.&
who found it to contain chlorate of potassium 7.99,
and fulminate of mercury 92.01. Colonel Majendie
at once saw that, although not exactly the same
make, it was like the detonators found not long
ago in the Ludgate-hill, Paddington, and Charing-
cross Stations. A material matter for the attention
of the magistrate was the disappearance of the Ameri-
can trunk and the discovery of the detonator in the
black box, while there were no letters or documents.
If the prisoner were guilty of this cruel and cowardly
outrage, he would take care that tlAre was no writing
about him to give any clue to his identity; but as
mistakes would always happen with the most careful,
there could be no doubt that the detonator was lost
sight of in the sock when the American trunk was
emptied of its contonte esa the Flack box broneht into
use. The case against the prisoner was that he naa
given no name of any person who knew him, nor any
account of what he had been doing in London; that
he took up his residence near the Tower, with which
he made himself acquainted by means of the "Guide
to the Tower" found upon him; that he was present
there at the time of the explosion, and a detonator
was found in his possession by which such an explo-
sion might be brought about. Counsel then went on to
point out that under the 24 and 25 Viet., cap. 97, sec-
tion 9, the prisoner, if guilty, was liable to penal ser-
vitude for life, while under the salutary provisions of
the Explosives Act of 1883 he was liable to the
same punishment. The prisoner would also be charged
under the 3rd and 4th sections of the same statute,
which provided that if found in the unlawful posses-
sion of materials by which life might be endangered
he would be liable to 20 years' penal servitude. The
prisoner would also be charged under the 12 Geo.
111., cap. 24, which provided that anyone maliciously
firing, injuring, or destroying any munition of war in
Royal buildings would be liable, on conviction, to be
sentenced to death. It ought to be known that that
Act still remained in force, and that when such cruel
acts as these explosions were carried out, by which
the lives of innocent men, women, and children were
seriously endangered, it was a question whether the
perpetrators, when caught, should not be dealt with
as guilty of high treason, instead of what was popularly
known as treason felony, in order that the highest
penalty of the law might be inflicted upon the ciuel
and cowardly ruffians who were engaged in such
nefarious practices.
Witnesses were called in support of the case against
the prisoner, when he was further remanded for a
week.