The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-05-05 00:00:00

Our Efinbon gorrtspoubcnt.

[We deem it right to state that we do not at all times
identify ourselves with our correspondent's opinions.]

The first week in May generally finds the fashion-
able life of the metropolis awakened as from a length-
ened torpor. The Academy is open in all its brilliancy;
and the engagements of the ariitocratic world, fresh
from the long-drawn out winter and the ungenial
spri!T, are full of interest and animation to the class
which they affect. The south-westerly winds and the
soft rains, have changed as if by magic the aspect of
the Parks, and the West-end thoroughfares between
four and six in the afternoon present a striking
picture of the wealth of the capital. See the double
stream of traffic slowly moving through Piccadilly,
up and down St. James's•street, along towards
Knightsbridge and Kensington, and away by the
Bayswater-road ; or watch the horsemen in the Row,
and note the equipages passing over the roadways in
Hyde Park, and no one can fail to be convinced that
the winter of the people's gloom, and to some degree of
4heir discontent, is at an end.
Parliament has been almost completely occupied
over the Affirmation Bill, the speech of the Prime
Minister being the principal topic of comment. For a
man who has seen the wear and tear of fifty years of
Parliamentary life, and who has done more official
work than any statesman now living, the effort is re-
garded as having been one of marvellous power. It
held the entire House of Commons spellbound just as
it might have done a quarter of a century ago. Mr.
Bernal Osborne once declared of Lord Palmerston at
eighty years of age, "Panting Time toils after him in
vain." Mr. Gladstone has not reached that patriarchal
age; but thus far antagonists and supporters alike see
that his eye is as yet undimmed, nor is his natural force
abated. Friends and opponents join in paying a
tribute to an oratorical effort in which any country,
at any time of the world's history, might have taken a
just pride.

While the debates in the House of Commons are
thus going on, that assembly is reminded of the fact
that the sands of its existence are slowly ebbing away.
It was summoned to assemble on the 29th of April,
1880, so that it is now in the fourth year of its life. It
has already lasted beyond the average age of the Par
liamerlte of the present reign. This is the tenth of
Queen Victoria, who has reigned 46 years, so that the
average of each would be just over four years and a
half. Only two have exceeded six years, and one was
under two years. This is the fourth session of the
Parliament, and there are seldom more than seven.
Each of the two long Parliaments mentioned had
seven sessions, That which is now sitting at West-
minster therefore may be said to have turned the
corner of its life.

The temporary indisposition of the Speaker is not a
matter for surprise to those who know aught of the
long hours which fall upon the First Commoner in
England, or the exacting nature of his duties. The
present occupant of the chair is nearly seventy yos,rs
of age, and he is frequently in it ten hours at a time,
with an interval of about twenty minutes for re-
freshments. Now, in these days a gentleman is
not expected to dine before four in the after-
noon, or after two in the morning, when the House too
often rises. The Speaker, therefore, is compelled to
snatch a hasty meal between eight and nine in the even-
ing, the sitting of the House being suspended while he is
away, which seldom exceeds twenty minuces. To
those who make dining one of the principal engage-
ments of the day, it may well appear that the House
of Commor,s expects too much from its chief executive
officer. It has amended its rules of procedure in
other respeccs ; but in this the same inelasticity re-
mains. By an amended order the Chairman of Ways
and Means has lately been constituted Deputy.
Speaker, who presidesrin the absence of the Speaker
himself through indisposition. A little relaxation of
routine would enable him also to take the chair while
the Speaker enjoyed a comfortable dinner, instead of
which at present he gets less time than is allowed to
an errand boy.

The interest felt in political controversy does not
diminish that in social questions so far as the House of
Commons is concerned. Sunday Closing and Local
Option occupy an increasing attention, and this is
sufficiently attested by the result of the recent division
on Sir Wilfrid Lawson's resolution. The problem to
be solved is obviously a difficult one. The liberty of
the subject is a hackneyed expression; but it un.
doubtedly exists, and it is not confined to any race or
country. A learned writer, who has evidently given
much time to this topic, has pointed out that the use
of wine is as old or older than history itself, and
wide as the area of civilization. That which was pro-
UM,' e Ali
Testament story, very potent in its effects ; the
poets of Greece and Rome were eloquent in it praise,
and the gods of cur ancestors in Valhalla, the
palace of immortality, drained goblets of mead and of
ale ; and if we come up to New Testament times, the
parable of the turning of the water into wine at the
wedding feast at Cana in Galilee has been read with
interest through successive ages ; while, in the case of
the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
was beaten, and stripped, and left half dead by the
thieves amongst whom he fell, he was taken—not to a
workhouse, nor to a hospital—but to an inn, as the
most appropriate place of accommodation for a case of
such extremity.

The United States pride themselves upon their
rapidly-increasing population, which by the end of
the century they promise will be at least a hundred
millions. The tide of emigration which constantly
sets in that direction is certainly the greatest ; but
the statistical abstract of our colonial and other
possessions just issued shows that their population
continues to augment quite as rapidly as that of the
great Republic of the West. During the ten years
ending in ISBI, the number of people in India increased
fr:m 191,000,000 to 202,500,000. In the same ten
years the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope were
doubled, while a marked increase also took place in
the majority of our pcssessions in Africa and the West
India Islands. Australasia has nearly a million
added to its residents, and British North America has
been advancing at a corresponding rate. In the
matter of revenue also there has been an augmenta-
tion. From India the amount received in 1871 was
£51,500,000, and in ten years it had gone up nineteen
millions. The revenue of Australasia has more than
doubled, and there has been a considerable develop-
ment as regards the Cape of Good Hope. • It is clear
from these figures that "progress "is the word as ap-
plied to the colonial dependencies of Great Britain.
Of the numerous Orders of Merit instituted during
her Majesty's reign, the Royal Red Cross, to be con-
ferred for special services in nursing the sick and
wounded of the Army and Navy, will meet with Vie
most sympathetic reception from those who know
what the value of good -.sussing is. True, it is not
often that England is engaged in a great European
war, bat upon the last occasion the self-sacrificing
devotion of Miss Florence Nightingale and her
assistants in the Crimea, combining Christian work
with patriotic toil, impressed itself deeply upon
the public mind. The decoration is to consist of
a cross of enamelled crimson edged with gold,
having on the arms the words "Faith, Hope,
Charity," with the date of its institution,fthe centre
having the Queen's effigy. On the reverse side the
royal and imperial cipher and crown are to be shown

in relief. Th:-. :moss is to be attached to a dark blue
riband, edged with red of an inch in width, tied in a
bow, and worn on the left shoulder. It is earnestly to
be hoped that no occasion will arise for the use of this
new decoration; but the fact that it has been called
into existence is another proof of the Queen's solicitude
for the care of thoie who devote their lives to their
country's service.

The opening by the Prince and Princess of Wales
of the sixty-fourth exhibition of the Institute ot
Painters in Water Colours, accompanied as they were
by the Duchess of Riinburgh and the Duke and
Duchess of Teck, in addition to the Princess Christian,
was the occasion of one of the most brilliant sum-

blies which this season in London has yet pro-

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duced. It is not so very long since the Institute was
a modest little gallery in Pall Mall; it has now
spleLdid rooms in Piccadilly; and while last year it
exhibited only 215 works, it now finds room for 904.
The show is described as a very handsome one, setting
off the ornaie building to every advantage. The
display of modern art here, at the Academy, and at
the numerous private exhibitions, will be amply
sufficient to satisfy its most enthusiastic admirers.
The resolution of the Cabinet to give precedence to
the Tenant Farman' Compensation Bill over the
measure for the reform of the local government of
London is regarded as greatly interfering with the
chances of the latter becoming law this session.
The first-mentioned Bill, which is to deal with
the. question of granting compensation to tenant
farmers for the unexhausted improvements in the
soil at the expiration of their leases, affecting as it
does the prosperity of an important national interest,
has been demanded after a run of adverse seasons
which has happily had few parallels in modern
history, and the agriculturists have been under the
impression that &Ler the Irish agrarian legislation,
extending over two sessions of the present Parlia-
ment, their turn might N ery well come. All the same
this second postponement of the reform of the local
administration of an aggregated province of houses
numbering a population of about four millions—for it
had been promised last session—will disappoint those
who have long worked in the direction of an improve-
ment demanded by the cumbrous system of the exist-
ing local government.

THE SEIZURE OF EXPLOSIVES IN
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM.
In London, on Thursday, April 26th, at Bow-street
Police-court, before Sir James Ingham, the seven
prisoners, THOMAS GALLAGHER, alias Fletcher, ALFRED
WHITEHEAD, HENRY DALTON, JOHN CURTIN, HENRY
WILSON, WILLIAM AIN SBURGH, and BERNARD
GALLAGHER, were again brought up for further ex-
amiLs-tion on the charge of treason-felony.
Among those who occupied seats on the bench were
Sir J. Heron Maxwell, General Sir NV. Codrington,
Mrs. NV. E. Forster, and Mr. H. a Arnold Forster.
Mr. Poland and Mr. R. S. Wright, instructed by
Mr. Pollard, represented the Treasury • Mr. J. J.
Sims, barrister, appeared for Thomas Gallag her ; Mr.
Guiry, barrister, for Dalton ; Mr. Doveton Smyth,
solicitor, for Wilson and Ansburgh ; and Mr. Freston,
for Bernard Gallagher, Whitehead, and Curtin.—We
take the following report of the evidence from The
Times of Friday ;
George Glanville, clerk at the American Exchange, 449,
Strand, deposed that Thomas Gallagher first came to the
Exchange on the Bth of November last. He signed his name
as Dr. Thomas Gallaher (without the "g"), of Brooklyn, and
stated that he was staying at the Midland Grand Hotel. On
November 24 he took a monthly ticket. On Tuesday, March
27, he again came and registered himself as "Dr. Thomas
Gallaher, New York, staying at the Charing-cross Hotel."
The witness gave him a ticket for one month, for which he
paid in advance. The witness had a strong impression that
Gallagher told him he came over in the Part/sic. After that
date he came to the Exchange from time to time On the
morning of April 5 the witness saw him in the Exchange.
He remembered a telegram coming for "Daniel Geier," on
the 20th or 30tk March. He had a strong impression that
he had seen Ansburgh at the Exchange, but could not be
positive.
Ansburgh : You are wrong; you never saw me there.
Cross-examined by Mr. Doveton Smyth, the witness said he
might be wrong in his impression.
The witness wished to mention that there was a differ-
ence between the American Exchange and Bowles's reading-
MOM.
Alphonse Salanson, postal clerk to the American Ex-
change, Strand, said he remembered having some letters
and telegrams addressed to Daniel Geier. Thomas Gal-
lagher came for the letters about the 3rd of April. The
witness told him there was a letter and telegram addressed
to Galer and refused to give them up to Gallagher without
a letter of authorization. Gallaher said he wanted to get
them by some means. He asked it he could deposit some
money. The witnees said, "No • there must be a letter
from Galer." The prisoner *then said he would cable over.
The witness made out a telegram to the New York office; it
amounted to £1 4s. Then the prisoner would not send it,
saying he was agent for Daniel Geier, who was travelling
between Liverpool and Glasgow, and he (Gallagher) would
get the address by the morning. The next time the witness
saw Gallagher was about April 4. He brought in a young
man and said he was Daniel Galer.
Mr. Poland: Da you see him here?
The witness said he was not certain, but thought he could
recognize Ansburgla—he was about the same stature. The
witness gave the young man the letters and telegram ; he
represented himself as Daniel Geier. He did not sign for
them, as that course was not usual with ordinary letters—
only with registered letters.
By Mr. D. Smyth: The prisoners were pointed out to the
witness in Court.
Thomas Richard Canning said he was an apprentice to
William Canning and Co., Great Hampton-street, Bir-
mingham, dry salters, druggists, &c. He remembered
February 6. Whitehead came to the shop and .asked the
witness if he sold colours and acids. The witness replied
that he did, and Whitehead gave him an order which he
took down in writing. The order was for whiting, linseed
oil, 1601 b. of nitric acid, 3001 b. of sulphuric acid, and
501 b. of glycerine. Whitehead gave his address as 128,
Ledsam-street, and requested the things to be delivered
before two o'clock the next day. He said he wanted them
to sell. The witness took the order to Mr. Thornton, one of
the firm, and the things were ordered. On Ash Wednesday,
the next day, the witness delivered the things with the car-
man. He saw the prisoner Whitehead, and gave him the
bill, which amounted to £l7. He objected to pay for the
carboys and cans. The witness then made a reduction, and
the prisoner paid the bill with a £lO-note and £5, which the
witness took to Mr. Thornton. When he gave the order, the
prisoner said he wanted the best acids and glycerine.
By Mr. Freston : The witness did not know the strength
of the sulphuric acid. He knew that sulphuric acid was
much used in Birmingham. He did not know what for.
The witness kept glycerine in different forms. It was used
for soap, chapped hands, perfumery, &e.
By Mr. Poland: The strength of the nitric acid was about
13130.

John Thornton, a member of the firm of W. Canning and
Co., said he saw the prisoner in their shop on February 6.
The strength of the sulphuric acid was 18.45. The glycerine
kept was commercially pure and chemically pure. He sold
Whitehead the former.
Mr. Freston asked to look at a paper with which the wit-
ness had been refreshing his memory. It was the price-list
of Bell and Co., who supplied the witness with chemicals.
The witness knew that sulphuric acid was used in various
manufactures. The specific gravity of the glycerine sold was
about 1161

Arthur Heely, a member of the firm of Philip Harris and
Co., chemists, Bull Ring, Birmingham, deposed that that
firm sold some glycerine to a person of the name of
Whitehead. The witness saw him, and thought he could
recollect him. The day was February 23. The quantity
was 2001 b., specific gravity 1260. The prisoner also
bought five gallons each of linseed oil and turpentine. He
gave the address Ledsam-street.
By Mr. Freston: The witness did not make the glycerine.
It was imported. He knew it was glycerine. There were
various qualities, which he knew by the specific gravity. It
was never made higher than 1 260 anywhere. Glycerine was
used for so many things that no suspicion would be excited
by its sale. Nitric acid would be commercially and chemic-
ally pure. The witness know very little about nitric acid.
John May, occasional salesman to Harris and Co., remem-
bered selling glycerine to Whltehead. The witness identl.
fled him. The date was March 19. The quantity was
2001 h. The prisoner also had five gallons of boiled oil and
live gallons of linseed oil. The glycerine was sent in four
tins On March 20 the prisoner came back and complained
aitkg. elvfNiMidsaKiniklts ifOt
witness agreed to exchange it, and charged him the
difference.
By Mr. Freston: The specific gravity was 1-200. That
sold on the 19th Was only 1250. He was quite sure it was
the prisoner.

Charles Hinson, carman to Messrs. Harris, deposed that
he delivered the goods on February 23 at Ledsam-street,
also on March 17. It was glycerine. The witness identified
the prisoner. On the first occasion the witness was paid by
the prisoner with two £5 notes, and the next time with one
£lO note.

Frederick Henry Sutton made affirmation. He said he
was cashier at Messrs. Harris and Co.'s. On February 23
the witness received two a notes, and placed them to
the account of Mania. (Witness gave the numbers.) It
was the practice of the witness to mark the notes. He
also received in March a £lO note which he believed
he marked as usual. (The ledger with the entries was pro-
duced.) •
Joseph Hodgkins deposed that he carried on business
at Liverpool-street, Birmingham. The firm was Judson
and Sons, manufacturing chemists. On February 23 White-
head came to the firm and asked the price of nitric
and sulphuric acid. The witness told him that nitric acid
was 40. a pound and sulphuric acid 68. 6d. a hundred-
weight. Whitehead said he was opening a shop for the
purpose of selling small quantities, and asked for a sample
of the nitric acid. The witness showed him a sample.
When shown it the prisoner asked if he could have it
stronger. The strength shown was 78 to 80, according to
the hydrometer. The witness said that was the strength
he usually sent ol4t, and he would not make it stronger for
any one. Whitehead then gave an order for two carboys of
nitric and three of sulphuric acid, and desired them to be
sent to Ledsam-street. The carboys of nitric acid varied in
weight from about 1201 b, to 1301 b., and the sulphuric acid
from 1701 b. to 2001 b. Whitehead was to pay cash and receive
the discount. The goods were delivered the next day. The
clerk was sent to the shop and received payment. Early
in March—the 6th—there was another delivery of sulphuric
and nitric acids, and the clerk brought back the money,
about £7 odd. The quantities suppiie d on the 6th were
two carboys of nitric and fon., of sulphuric acid. On March 14
there was another delivery—two carboys of nitric and four
of sulphuric acid, amounting to about Z 7. They were paid
for in the same way. On the fcliowing Friday Whitehead
called at the witness's place of business. Witness saw him.
The prisoner said the nitric acid was not up to tha strength
he witness had agreed to send. The witness said it was
perfectly right when it left the works, for he tested it him-
self. The witness had tested it as a matter of fact, and it was
up to the standard. The prisoner also said it was not the
proper colour. The prisoner then wanted to fetch a sample
from the shop to show he was right. The witness arranged
with a man to go down to the shop and test it. The witness
sent one of his men with the prisoner to test the acid, taking
a hydrometer with him. The same day the prisoner called
at the witness's place of business. Flynn, the man sent,
came with him. The prisoner said witness was quite right
respecting the strength, and he Ives sorry he troubled him.
On March 28 the witness sent his carman with two carboys
of nitric and two of sulphuric acid. Mr. Heath, the clerk,
brought back the money, about £5. On April 4 there was
another delivery—three carboys of nitric and three of sul-
phuric acid. The witness received from Mr. Heath about
£lO in gold. That was the last transaction. The total
amount of acids delivered was 1,6431 b. of nitric acid and
about 3,0001 b. of sulphuric acid.
Alfred Heath, a clerk in the employment of the last wit-
ness, gave formal evidence in proof of the delivery of the
acids to Whitehead, who paid for them personally.
John Boyd, superintendent of the Central District of the
Glasgow Police, stated that on April 6 he received what
purported to be a copy of a letter written by Bernard Gal-
lagher to Dr. Gallagher, and in consequence of what he
read he subsequently apprehended Bernard Gallagher in a
publichouse, and found him the worse for liquor. He had
been lodging at a widow's named M'Gavaghan. When
they arrived at the central police station the witness took
from the prisoner's pocket an envelope with the London
postmark of tpril 4. There was no letter inside it. He
afterwards searched him and found another envelope with
the postmark "Charing-cross, April 3." At the central
police office the witness said, "I charge you with having
on January 20 last been concerned in the use of an ex-
plosive substance at the gasometer at Tradeston Gas
Works and at Fosse bridge over the Firth of Clyde Canal."
The prisoner said, "I know nothing about It; I was in
America at the time." He said he had come from America
in the ship Catalonia in the name of James Campbell, and
that he left America on February 9, but did not say when
he arrived. He was taken before the magistrates in
Glasgow, and remanded for eight days in custody. The
witness saw him again on April 11. The prisoner had
written to the Procurator Fiscal, stating that he was
desirous of seeing the superintendent of police or one of
the officers who arrested him for the purpose of giving in-
formation concerning the charge against persons in Eng-
land ot illegally using dynamite. The witness told him he
understood that he had written to the Procurator Fiscal,
and he said he had. The witness told him he had been
instructed to tell him that anything he said might
be used against him, and that he was to understand
that the Procurator Fiscal could enter into no arrange-
ment with him. The prisoner then began his statement,
and the witness took it down as follows :--" We came here
on February 10, three of us—James Campbell, Daniel
Geier, and Charles Coleman. We stayed one night in
Liverpool; from there we went to London to see some-
body, but did not see anybody. We left there and came
to Glasgow by boat after staying two days in London. We
remained in Glasgow two days, and then sailed from
Liverpool in the Germanic, White Star Line. I was only
two days n New York, and my brother the doctor brought
me back and sent me to Glasgow to tell James Curtin
to go to London. He was in Milton-lane. I know all
of them. My brother told me about them. I do not belong
to any of the schools in New York or here or to any school
having any connexion with dynamite. I have heard talk
of Whitehead or Oxford, or a name like that. A young
man came over in the boat on the last occasion. He be-
longed to the school, and he went to London. I do not
know his name. I do not believe the gasworks affair was
done by this school, but by an Irish lot. I heard my brother
say so. My brother Daniel returned with Charley Coleman
in the Germanic because they did not believe in doing such
business as Curtin wanted them to do.
Bernard Gallagher: I have told you four times that is
wrong about Curtin.
The witness (continuing reading): "If I saw my brother
in London I am sure I would get him to tell all if he was not
told I"was informing. I knew them—the members—by see-
ing them in Brooklyn. There will be about thirty alto-
gether. We arrived in Liverpool on a Monday night and
then saw the Westminster affair in the papers. There are a
lot of rich men in the school in New York. I have nothin
to do with them. All I had to do was to tell Curtin to go

to London. If taken to London I will identify them and
tell all I know."
Bernard Gallagher : I did not say so. Ido not know any
of them. I told yon you were wrong about Curtin.
The witness, continuing, said that after the prisoner made
that statement he asked that it should be read, and having
read it he said it was correct On April 13 he wrote another
letter to the Procurator Fiscal to ask that the witness might
go to the prison again. He went to the prison and saw
Bernard Gallagher. He said, "I know Murphy in the case,
or Mack, or a name like that. These are the only two I know
more than I told of before. I might know more of them if
I saw them.' On other occasions when the witness saw
the prisoner he said that if taken to. London he would tell
all he knew. He said on one occasion that O'Donovan
Rossa was connected with one of the schools, and that White-
head was the fist or about the first to come to this country
or something to that effect. On April 15 Bernard Gallagher
was handed over to Inspectors Laugrish and Mackie, of the
Metropolitan Police Force. After the prisoner s removal
to London the witness went to Millbank prison and saw
Bernard Gallagher there. He informed him that some money
he left behind him had been sent to Scotland-yard, and asked
whether he had anything to add to his former statement.
He said he had nothing to add, that there was no case against
him, and he had nothing further to say.
Cross-examined by Mr. Freston: At Millbank the prisoner
said, with reference to one portion of his statements, in
which he referred to his brother, that it was not the brother
in the dock. He did not tell the witness that he was in-
accurate in what he had written about Curtin. The witness
did not ask questions to lead up to the answers, and he
would swear that the prisoner never corrected him as to the
statement about Curtin. Mrs. M'Gavaghan said Bernard
Gallagher had been lodging at her house since the Sunday
previous, and that he had not done any work, but had been
drinking. He had lodged there before. It was pretty well
known as a matter of fact that he was a workman.
•

Inspector Smith, of the Glasgow police, who was present
at Bernard Gallagher's arrest, and afterwards found the two
envelopes referred to above, now deposed that on the occa-
sion of the prisoner's removal to London he said, "I am
very glad I am going to London. I will tell the truth. I
won't be punished for anybody else."
John Burnes, of 4, Hill-street, Springburn, near Glasgow,
Identified Bernard Gallagher as a customer at a spirit shop
in Glasgow, where the witness was employed in the year
3876. In February last be saw the prisoner again with two
other men, whom he represented to be his brother and
cousin. The witness could not identify any one in the dock
with the exception of Bernard Gallagher, who had told him
that his brotlitr and cousin had gone to America.
In cross-examination the witness said he could not identify
Dr. Gallagher as Bernard Gallagher's brother who was with
him on the occasion referred to above.

Dennis KiHeather' residing at 32, West Milton-street,
Glasgow, stated that he was an iron dresser. In February
he saw Curtin at the Sun Foundry in Glasgow. He gave
the witness a note, signed Thomas Gallagher, asking if he
could get employment for John Curtin. He knew the pri-
soner Thomas Gallagher, having lodged with his parents
about 18 years ago. The father died, and the family con-
sisting of six sons and two daughters, went to America.
He knew the three sons, Thomas, Bernard, and Daniel,
the latter being the youngest. In October last Thomas
Gallagher called upon him, and said he had come for a
trip from America. When he read the note he received
from Curtin, he told him to wait until half-past five until
he had finished work. At half-past five he took Curtin
home, and allowed him to stay at his house that night.
Curtin stated that he had come from America, seeking em-
ployment. The witness asked how Thomas Gallagher was
getting on. He said he was doing well in America. Curtin
said that he had a sister at Blackburn. He left Glasgow to
see his sister on Friday, March 2, and returned upon the
following Wednesday, the 7th. He said he was an engine.
fitter by trade. Curtin said he belonged to Ireland He
got work down at a shipbuilding yard on the Clyde when he
got back, and was there from Monday, the 12th, till the
17th. He stayed at the witness's house until April 4. He
left about a quarter-past eight o'clock at night, and said he
was going to Blackburn to see if he could find employment.
He went in a Liverpool carriage, and paid 15s. 11d, for his
ticket. He sated that he had written to his father and
mother in the south of Ireland for the money, and that
they had sent him E. 5. He paid the witness 12s, per week
-while he lived at his house. About three weeks before
Curtin left the witness's house Bernard Gallagher called.
When he came in the witness said, "Here is another
Yankee." Bernard said he had not seen him before. When
the witness saw Thomas Gallagher in October, he said
that Daniel Gallagher was working with him in America.
The witness last saw Curtin and Bernard Gallagher together
on April 1.
James Cameron, a foreman engineer at Messrs. Napier
and Sons, shipbuilders, Glasgow, stated that Curtin called
upon him on Monday, March 12, and asked for a job. He
described himself as an engine-fitter. The witness gave
him work on board the Phceton, and he continued to work
until Saturday, March 17, when he left without giving
notice.
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Mr. Pcland asked that the case should be remanded until
one day next week for the purpose of reading the depoPi-
Lions taken at Birmingham, and then further remanded for
another week, by which time witnesse would have arrived
from America who had been passengers on board the
Parthia with Thomas Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, and
Ansburgh.
The prisoners were accordingly remanded.