The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

Immure.

Henry Delnit., aged 2 year was thrown out of a top
room window in Corporation-lane, and strange to say
when he was carried to the hospital it was discovered
that he was only frightened. Nine out of every ten of
the sufferers who are now in the hospital were injured
while they were in their houses in Corporation-lane,
opposite the House of Detention.
In the Olerkenirell workhouse there are four
ohildren sod one man lying injured. There are era
person. laying wounded in the Royal Free Hospital.
During Friday evening several thousand persons
celled at St. Bartholomew's Hospital to make inquiries
after friends whom they supposed to be injured. In
some oases where people recognised, the scenes were
heartrending. Mr. White, the treasurer of the
hospital, deemed it hi. duty to write • letter to His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wale., acquainting him
with the nature of the occurrence, and informing him
how the resources of that hospital, of which his vial
highnesss is the president, have been brought into
requisition. During the 15 Teem he has been treasurer
of this hospital be has wen such fearful wounds
and so much blood. They were, be said, indeed of •
dangerous character, and all tbe sufferers when they
were brought in presented an appearance as if they had
been drawn up • chimney, they wereso begrimed with
dirt.

A Mr. Glutton, • tradesman in Leather-lane, at the
time of the explosion, was in his stable in Daviesctreet,
attending to his horse, when he was struck dead on the
spot. On being examined his left breast bore the ap•
pearance of having been completely smashed in. Mr.
Ten', beilder. residisgs4 the house next but one to the
prime, was sitting in his eminting-house reading, when
he was thrown violently from his chair to the ground,
the chair itself being shivered in pieces. Yr. Terry
fortunately mewed with a few bruises.
The streets in the neighbourhood of the prison, for a
quarter of • mile round, were strewed with fragments
of broken glass.
For • few minutes after the explosion there was dark-
ness in the *streets, the explosion having extinguished
the lamps. The excitement was increased by the
arrival of police stretchers, crate, and even carts. In
those vehicles were placed at least 20 persons, males,
females, and their children. Some were so terribly
mangled that they were writhing and groaning with
pain, and were apparently in the agonies of death. The
various streets near the scene of the ostastrophe were
barricaded, and even the °ampler' of the different
places of business were not allowed to pass unless they
could show authority for doing so.
The ere brigade were brim in shoring up the homes and
directing men how to search fcc the bodies which it was
believed were buried beneath the ruing of the home, in
Corporation-row. The way was rapidly torn up, and
pipes being attashed to the pa mains, the street was
quickly lighted up, and a strange scene was presented.
The firemen in their shining helmets were working by
tptilht of the flaring gas, starching the ruins; and
In the gap of the prison wall were scores of polies.
The spot where the powder was plaited the pound bas
been actually blown in, and the wall was torn from its
very foundation.
The Grenadier Guards were placed for the night
In the corridors of the prison. The polioe of all
the divisions from A to Y have sent contingents
to the neighbourhood of the Rouse of Detention, and
at one time it was estimated that alone apse 3,000 were
on duty in Glerkenwell. There was not the faintest
evidence, however, of any design on the pert of the
Fenians to follow up their first blow by any coup
Sc etara. The most perfect order prevailed all the
evening. _ .

lt,rn. of all 01•4111011, from the aristocracy to the
also which chiefly constituted the rough crowd at the
scene of the catastrophe on Friday night, brand the
outrage me a foul, erect end cowardly murder. I was
astonished to hest how well the mob uuderstood the law
of the matter, having probably learned it from studying
reports of the Manchester trials. "Oh, yes, it's murder
In law," I heard more than one person nay, "because
they were doing an unlawful act." Andes • murder
morally everybody seems to stamp this realms des-
truction of human life, and initiation of life-long
injuries. Even Mr. Malan would not dare to stand up
in Clerkenwell Green and call the perpetrators of this
fiendish offence "glorious, brave, and plucky Penises;"
and if be did, I would not answer for his life at the
hands of a Clarkin well mob. By the way, although
is not my business nor my habit to interpret judg-
ments," does it not mem like a Nemesis that Clarkin-
well, the greet mane of sympathy with the Manedieeter
Fenian., should also be the scene of this horrible Fenian
outrage?
The awls was an ordinary 36-gallon beer barrel, and
would contain nearly 500Ibe. of gunpowder.
The tenoussion stopped every going ohronometor In
Mr. Benson's shop, on Ludgate-hill, and alarmed people
as far as Brixton.

—The night police of London are not armed with
revolvers, and even such • force as that detailed for
'Penal duty on Friday night within and around the
House of Detention was unproviiked with firearms. or
any other weapon except the usual truncheon. A few
of the inspectors sad evident' had their cutlasses, but
even these were not served out to the men, who speak
not unjustifiably of the hardship to which they are
exposed of being liable to sabot from a Fenian revolver
without being able to retarn it.
That the prisoners were cognisant of the attempt to
be made for their release appears obvious from the fact
that shortly before the explosion the prisoner Burke
appeared very excited, and went often to the window of
his sell.

T;ttempted rescue of Burke is a matter of no
importation. The killing and wounding of the poor
people in the neighbourhood is of the gravest importance.
The people of this country are law-abiding and peaciefuL
But a repetition of such outrages as this may very easily
change the feelings of the populace. There were
ominous °ries in the crowd on Friday night for Judge
Lyneh. There were evidences, which no obeervant
man could mistake, of a terrible earnestness in the
forms, not loud but deep, that were elicited hem the
mob as each mangled victim of Feeian prowess was
borne off to ht. Ruth°lomew's or Gray'a-inn Hospital.
The infernal maehines of 1800 and IBM have been
rivalled by the diabolical device of the Emden eco-
spiratora. It is, indeed, heart-rending to hear of little
children four and live years old tors and mangled. tO
find youth and aged involved in a ammo° deetreetleo.
It is terrible to think that there are, no doubt, still
among us others planning oisbc equal dastardly
end deadly, and that any day may bebig some dienstrose
DOR
The Montag Ster says that on the morrow of snob a
catastrophe the people have need .1 41 their wisdom sad
prudence and eels nem. When the universal heart eta
city like oars is animated am by One f"1141, ot ohhooresee
the play et empeshy, the amisatudotted eagegossi
reprobatioa, the aoseateletioe tone ot peados IA sish
bpi* eager et mak at,9147 too 10 tohe the

shape of wild soreessidag damper for some swift
veageanoe upon the perpetrator.. Lel all who los
their country and revere its laws resist this tendons
And speak the words of edieress. Terrible as is the
grilse, the law Is its far-reshing poses is able to sops
with it.
The bongs Is Corporation-lane, it the time of the
explosion, were erseemed with women and Andrea. Se
men being chiefly out, work. In a moment the horrid
pillar of yellow Ss bad leaped up, See the billow ef
sulphoreous stooks rose slowly to hearse, and the foal
deed was seasammatwd. The first ask over, erowdeil
people, with willing hearts sad reedy bands, noshed to
the nesse. Women sad children, severed with bleed,
IMO dragged out of the ruins, is whit*, foe as heir
afterward; great fragments solianed to drop eh
Intervals is their weight overseas the etreagth of the
mortar which bad se bog held them together. One
poor ehild sued Minis Thumps* had his bee
completely destroyed by framed* of glass breed inks
her flesh, while other wounds were masa is her body
by glass driven through bar oldies; This is SS •
sample ease. A man, taken to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, wee killed almost on the spot, the bones of
his chest being driven inwards by • mass of brinkwork
which fell upon him. Tba shrieks of the woos, the
shrill sereams of the children, the moss of Sas
plunged into • state of painful insensibility, added
Immeasureably to the terrible nature of the sons.
The street is wrecked ;ten houses as more or less blown
to pieces; fifty homes ore desolate; and all that • Fenian
conspirator might perchance have an opportunity of
release from sustody I There is • sight in Uorporstioa-
lane to melt to pity the sternest heart; to move to
indignation every manly spirit. There lie reins
Indescribable. One hose is a eases of dust and mhos
and briokbets and old laths. Next is • dwelling rant
from door to roof, with nothing bet IS front and
one aide well, abuttingse an alley, remaining. Next,
wain, is • comparatatively fine hose, through Se
blank ashes of whioh ars yet to be month. gilt buss
of a mirror devoid of glom, and the remakes of a
gaselier twisted end beet by tbe easily blast. Next,
spun, is a house with the rod partly blown 0111, sad
every window and door smashed. Then come other
, houses more or less writhed, but dill partially habitable,
and last of all, on that side la a gin pulse with every
fragment of date glass tore into mess the is. of
explodoe was heard as far as the Crystal Palms.
The Government have seat two to meet Se Im-
mediate distress that is ceesioned, and words of praise
for so spontaneous se act would be hackneyed. Os
Saturday morning Mr. Diaseelfe private essretery, and
ages Semen direst from the Poor-law Board, tame not
so mush to gee what was seeded as to do what geSrally
is not doom without a good deal el saline reporling—
namely, to dispose funds to the seedy. The Houma
Secretary. too, and Kr. Liddell, the new under-
secretary, ware there, and a lady seat by the Princess
Christian came to Isidro how far the terrible accounts
published were ins An officer fres the Queen'. house-
hold cars also on • similar emend, her Majesty having
previously sent a telegram to She leyed Free Hospital
to know how the sufferers were progreweis, and to
express bet sympathy with them. A email' sealing
was called by the churchwardens for Mislay night for
the purpose of taking whatever Sees may be belied
best for raising foods. The distribution of the money
sent by the Government is, we belies. li. • measure S
be regulated be the police. On Sunday neorsiog,
amongst other prompt actions of the HMO kind, they
gave several pounds to • poor women who was ;im-
maturely confined in smogs...* of tfie explosion.
A fourth death has taken place. At three o'clock ma
Sardis atterdoon Martha Thompson. • girl five year.
age, died in the Royal Free Hospital, Grays-is-read_
From the first the poor child's ease was spaded as
hopeless, the iniaries which ultimately proved fatal
being integunesses torn off the fess and scalp, 'Heide
were fearfully burnt and blistered with dirt, 'Les, and
gunpowder. In the same hospital her elder sister lies
with serious lacerated wounds of neck end scalp. An,
old man named Humphrey Russ, sped 16, who bea.
received, like so many more of the injured, • severe
shook to the system, is in a highly perilous position, and
nol mach hops is stertained of his recovery.
The miscreant who lighted the fess is knots, andt
can be identified by several persona. For the present,
however, he has baMsd the keen mesh that is Wag;
made for him.
Some think the explosion was caused by nitro-
glycerine, or some similar subetaaoe. Others believe it
we, petroleum.
Curry. it is said, was bard at the window of bin sell,.
calling to the people to some to his rescue, and offering
them money as an inducement.
No information is as yet forthcoming as to where the
gunpowder -as procured. It is said the police, amongst
other precautionary misers have informed all oilmen,
grinmakers, and dealers in Implosive materials to pay
particular attention to persons who may apply for gun-
powder, gun cottoo, or anything of an explosive
distracter. Drysalters and Smoothes distillers. dealers
in petroleum, naphtha, and other volatile oils, have
also been requested to ascertain, if pomade, the name
and addresss of all such pesos who may pardiess say
of those combustible articles. It is stated thet the Is-
former Devanney has identified Desmond sad Allen is
Fenian; . _ .

The government have issued a proclamation.
signed by Sir R. Mayne, which was posted pep on
Sender and read by large crowds.. It offers £4OO.
reward for such information as shall lead to the appre-
hension and conviction of the persons who conveyed tho'
gunpowder and caused the explosion, and pardon to
any aceomplice, not being the person who actually set
fire to the gunpowder, A farther reward of £lOO will
also be paid for information as shall lead to the appre-
hension and °Deviation of any accomplices in the offence.
A guard of 100 soldiers me on duty within the prison,
and about 300 police near. Officers in plain clothes
were probably so numerous in one locality.
"None of the prisoners were injured by the
explosion," is the official announcement posted on the
idle of the entrance to the prison at Clerkenwell. In
all gaol experience there was never yet seen a notifica-
tion Wined. The fact whieb it records is as extraordinary
as the ...ties is onions.
EIAXINAVION Or TIM PAISOXIMS.
On Saturday evening at (hulk the three persona in
custody were brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at the
Bow-street police-court. Had the case been an oedisary
one, it would have been heard before the Clerkenwell
magistrate, but the peculiar circumstances under which
the crime was committed led to a departure from the
usual custom. A crowd assembled at an early hour in
King's-cross-road, expecting to see the prisoners, while
crowds assembled in Bow-street to see Burke and Casey,
who were under examination daring the morning. The
polite kept their mart well, but during the afternoon
It weed out that the Clerkanwell prisoners were tannins
to Bow-street. When the min esme up about four
o'clock, strongly guarded by mounted police, armed with
swords and pistols, there was • slight hooting at the
prisoners, but the the demonstration we, not general;
The van had seemly stopped and the =minted polio,
stationed themselves mount' it before the "treat received
such reinforcements of spectators from some bidden
shelter they had found from the rain that traffic for
the moment wadi suspended. The prisoners were how-
ever speedily placed in the dock, and presented the
appearance of ordinary working people, with no special
characteristic of either face or manner.
They gave the names of Timothy Desmond, Jeremiah
Allen, and Ana Justice, and the charge preferred against
them was "with being concerned with others not in
custody, with the wilful murder of Sarah Hods ki
wed 35 ; William Clutton, 56; and • girl nZelt
Minnie Abbott, aged 8 years, by wilfully and
maliciously firing an explosive substance, supposed to
be gunpowder. at Corporation-lane, ClerlenwelL" To
this sad speoficetion the name of the poor child who
died on Sunday afternoou will have to be added. The
prisoners looked rotted the court once or twice search-
ingly, but not nervously or anximudy. The first
witness, who was Mr. Moore, chief warder of the
Hones of Detention, narrated that between two
and three on Friday afternoon • policemen told
him a man was loitering about outside and refused
to go away, and he saw the woman Justice,
whom he had known as • visitor to Casey.
join the loiterer. Allen was there, and the group
appeared to be reeminoitiaing the prison. Allen had
also been noticed on the top of one of the houses near,.
end he was then seen to come down, and talk to five or
six others. Mr. Moore said he considered this
suepiciona, and went down to tell the governor so, but.
while doing this the explosion took pleas. Mr. Moore
added an interesting piece of Iniormation as to the
internal arrangements of the prison. It wee to the
effect that upon the explosion being heard, the warders
went so the stores, 'applied themselves with arms, and
rushed into the yard, to find no manly opponents, but
50 or 80 feet of the brick well that the murderous
ruffians had blown down. After some invest/ant rearnrks
the witness withdrew.

--The;ext reitati;,-;pollesnian named Sutton, of the
A reserve division, gave mane direct tertemy of the
crime He had been engaged in the special duty of
watching the Dated, of the Howe of Detention ever
since Burke and Carey had been lmpflso..d there.
Justice visited the prison at one o'clock, while Allen
waited /Made and when abs came out site joined him ;
they conversed together, were joined by Desmond.
with whom they conversed for twenty mimes% and
upon proceeding to part a fourth as. num up. This
person assidestaly embed against the policeman, who
was in plain clothes, begged bis pinion, and asked
a trilling question, to which the detective, with
professional candour, replied he was a Malinger is
the pima. The man then walked off, having
afforded Button a full opportunity of knowing
him. Desmond, who was, it appear., particularly to
rebethwTh.attedawarwedo.tettiownj.C...orpo....4tiond-r.lanewinganad t aeon
with a banal, which be put upon the pavement. and
'motioned up the walk, after stoppin a minute or. two.
Batton followed hint, but at what ' dul.not
say. He next says Ise beard a tremendnst lexPlesson,
and then saw Allen and the woman raceme sway fast.
and
Deset:nion.httittehe,
i7wwiltomnan,vngl.a:lidor aLithhbeetrpbo;.ceentwttit‘eabmEat;
held by the hand he meld most eonvenimitly diseng.h,
from the woman. Be held both until madam, Wile.
This was the evidence in chid. and the wrees-examina-
Use was trieing. The prisoner Desmond asked the
witness whether he could swear be het the public.
home more than' two minutes, and the sinew said "y,"
Desmond told him he perjured himself. The worthy
mattrate rebuked kbo 1"50p5r• sad mica Allan what
.4and to which the prisoner appealed to
said all he had.* say wee that he was helping Desmond,
whom he bed seen intoziested in • publialouas. Justice
denied that etas had ever run with Allen, whereupon
All.s added hastily, "It was sang% to maks any
one run, wee snob an explosion." In reply to a
quleticeSuttee said the explcision followed
the planing the barrel upon the pavement at an
interval of ten minutes. At this point the
remand was asked for and obtained, leaving one thing
unexplained which many in the court and many out
would have liked to have slowed, namely, why, with no
much suspicion, if not absolute warning, of impending
mischief, and with so mesh elms treating of the
prisoner time sad opportunity were allowed for the
axing oi the barrel and the insertion, lighting, doing,
and burning of the roam. all of whisk dotal.' are
declared to have been observed plainly by different
witnesees. No donna further evidenso end • little cross
examination will asks all plain.

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