The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-10 00:00:00

A NITILO-OLTCILIUXI DISTILLIMT.

Great excitement was cannot in Birmingham on Thurs.
day no 'mine by MI sots ire of • lasg q °unity of nitro.
gip:eine and the arrest of • m en, n.mnl Albert G• .ras
Whitehead, alleged ti b. connected with • Fenian plot.
Whitehead. trio . II evidently of Irish nationality, hes
°termini the premises for shout two months, ostensibly as
• on attar end p .p nth , but did no business la that line.
He tusde large purchases of nitreglyeerine sad *eds. la
the scullery the cope c wee uttligni in preparing the
explosives. Whit thea I entered lodgings next door at Ilse
Psintoest, and used to easel all day at his shop.
It appears that the Birmingham police had beea wecha
iog the Shoe co-ipini by Whitehead tot &considerable time
before his arreet Oa &sad .y eight, by aid of skeleton
kept, the detectives q.lietly set Ted the shop, and
survvyrd the whole of the prom set They then received
full oonlirmation of their suspicions in the dtecovsry of
all the maplisoce and mate-leis for the manufacture of
nitro•glycertne. A 'ample of • texture era. taken •way,
sal sobnitt•ol to D. Hell, the hr .ugh anairet, from
whom further vertlicetton was received. Tee police
might up en Va, have erred W k tr,head, and taken
posersion .1 hi. place; but r was thought that if
us could be allowed t, go ea with his psoceeliags in
Ignorance that he was being watched, some link might
be divcovered between him and the hereon. lOC whale use
the dynamite was being made. Orders were therefore
• sivon that the we eh eh cold he merit weed. Expense,.
I showed the wisdom of ttaliCaurae, for on Wednesday even.
log a men was Sea to buy, the premise' with a bon of
considerable weight One of the weathers treeked him to
Newntreat Relway-station. and travelled in the same
train ti L end al, where toe 8 Inland Lard authorities,
baying been eddied by telegram, wets in waiting to
follow hint up, and arrest him in pneeiston of • box noir
Wilma ifewt, of nitronelscerine. Thera was also another
man, who w,, 11401.9`.4 le 4e ing the premises •arlier in the
dsy, and tie nigh ate talc •r went after him, he missed him
on the way to Haw-street station. It was atalrerarall ,
ascerthinct that he ith I gone to Is melon, sod elthoush he
ii believed to be now in custody, he fo• the time escaped
puriuit. Ht.,' of the °titer are. tin Loud h having been
received, it was judied to bc tth ti care Whitehead.
Act tediugly, at about 11,1,q10.cl uIL on Thut slay morning.
the Chief of Pole-, with the'. d t ,u
of the shop. Toe front and back entrant-. ti Kre
Point en's were carefully guar led, end D•tective Black,
lute :king at the front door, inquired o' toe landlady set.
where the tenant of the adjoining premises lived, as he
hut l-ft the door unlocked. tins Pointon at once called
up Whitsboad, and he quickly c clue doenutstre dressed.
One of the officers said " You're • nit fellow to go to bed
and teethe yoar soorsd or undone." Whitehead Is stited
to have replied—"ocr. dee. em I—bat I did not Wive it
undone The oaten salt he we. wanted in the shop, and
Whitehead requesting His Pointon ti give him his hat.
put it on, and arcompanied the detective. In his shop he
wee asked whether ha chose to give any sextant of the
thing. that were there, but the only rep.), be veochanfed
we. that the detectives wanted to know too mach, and
be we. not stoles to expose his Were. H... thereupon
. taken into cwaway,
After Whitehenrs removal the p Moe mode • titer ugh
examination of the promisee The front shop see foliala
Oalt • patly stock of wall former, several cans of oil end
two cans of giro •rint In the hack room were eleven
greet Jars of ohemicds sad a number of conk the contents
of whtch cannot be detsonlinall until after an °Sethi
scientific examination In the beck kitchen things bore
• still more suspicions aspect. The ordinary washing
urnace wmft filled with • liquid preparation, and to carry
sway the Imes ado. had been made aosaeoilag :rr

the chimney. Nest the furnace lay • thermometer and 1
other chemical epworatua, and Ilitta WON 1111•011,1 j•Ill of
oil and acid in if,. kilobit.. two being labelled sulphuric
*cid. Too vlic• ransacked Um place in the hops of gad'
inga,Kle doCUrOnigs which would thro • lisht upon Whit.-
head's operations. but to n purpose. Tee premises were
subsequently visited by Dr. Hill, the borough analyso.
who fond Is the scullery about fourteen carboy. 04,
sulphuric acid, each holding between eight en I ten
gallons, and • numb,' of tins containing pure glycerine.
There were also several ho Des coot &Mining a mixture of
sulphuric and nitric acid. Toe contents of ibe lurnats or
boii'r, estimated et from eig t ti ten .11 as, proved to
bu attic-give...ins in priee as "f msnfa,tur-, about two
' gallons of toe whole being steamily converted tato that
dangerous explieivs A sanpie woe .10.01quoutly t sits n
away by Dr. Hill for analysis. Thes• chemicals ewe
boaght from radians ena,.u'actui es of the town an
neighbourhood. sad were invariably Dodd for in cash It
is ascertained that from one firm. Messrs. ?MIT Bevels
sni Co.. Whitehead, bought within • few weeks no less
than sr worth of glycerine *line, which he said he
wanted to retail in small quantities to hairdressers and
others; hot he always WM care ti purchme his acids
from another arm, Si as t lay° d exciting suspicion.
la the course of the afternoon the prisin.,r was brought
before the beams& magistrates and was charged with
mannyneturing sad Wing in p isessalos of an explosive
sub•toince—namaly.nitrrelycerine, • iih intsnt to Gomm t
• felony. Pris .ner is • shert, dark. int 113gentelooking
man. Thorn is nothing of the) Irishman in hie appearance,
and the police cusp .ct him te be f A•uerican origin. Tne
pHs ',in acme woo gir.o se Albert Georg, Whilieh"d•
On Friday. at the Bairstieet P before Sir
J moe (waste. the lour men who were arrilloted 00
Therthey in connection with the supposed de an to con-
sole. cr., errs charged under the feta and 25 h
chap. 47, se: 54, with being In p co thins of as expimive
•uietsers, n•meiy, nitr •AISC,In, with the in sit of
cm emitting • felony. Their names Sr. Teoulas Gallagher.
33. parsic as. abet. roe dog t toe COthilth•Of..llo ii tel;
William Joseph N rmaii. V. e coecatetiideer ; H•ney
lice siert Wiiss•i. 23. c dirk; mill or? Dillon, alias John
O'Connor (tee letter b dug on 4 ca erg d with coop IC by
with the other.). Arts' beating euffidest formal evideac ,
this learned maristrati remanded them all till Thureday
next. refusing ball.

SUPPOSED PLOT TO BLOW UP LONDON.
icings 110 tin
Tt• seizures of nitro-glycerin, at Birmingham and
Leaden, t igether will the epprebenai n of this men in
4.1111011 of the dangerous compound, hey* been
promptly followed up by three wire arrests, one at 64s-
v. and the others in the metropolis. Those slip Sr' t•f
of the utmost imporiance, ite, if t statemtnts .1 the
authorities are at all to be relied on, they go to furnish
Important links in tee chain of evidence c mooting ttie
cal ins outr.gro in the c .untry together. Th• man
.Ga
nit'flemri undan, who er
ilrt nte.".:aldf:rnok luma Bhcr...'witoho e°
ly of kna'B. whilel. Thorns
ar If
morning in London it charged with b lug conceroed wilt
the Nur pli•oners nadir remand from th .t plod.,
the principal evidence adduced against him being • biter
to GMligher, alleged to be in his hatalwritinite It te
strongly believed that the police authorities, who main-
tain the utmost reticence as hl their movement., we in
sbeolute pos ..on of some most important info. matron,
which will sweedi y bed to a further development of
wh et is likely to tu,noiit the most bideons end stupendous
plot of modern times No pains hey* been Name). not
enly Li trace all c inward with tbe affair. but to ft %tetras
eny dinigns there may be of *flocking pu..lio betiding*
Everywhere the police force has been strengthened, and •
coast int wet h is kept both night and day over every
pintos of importance in London, while the Guards bore
been .utnieted with the cats of all toe G "vero went faC4B
and the N.• wLw Goo C.. This duty is nos becoming so
severe that it is contempletad briugins a line regiment to
L olden from one of the clop 'is to ann.% nil the Guards'
rsiiinenis being considerably below their strength
0 S .ncliv in ?ming, between 11 and 12 • cock the
Smtland•rord authorities off wad another errest, which is
recordist es one of the smut lmpot.st that has_ yet been
made. The arrest was effected ty Inspector Lint. cond
and other Moen bwonging to the C. imioel Invettigation
Departm-nt. the Press Association learns that toe police
had rendo.d iniormatio of the whereabouts of a young
man who bed recently arr,ved from America,and who.
Ii wee believed, was In communication with the prisoner
.11.gher. Accordingly, about noon on Sonday, teepee or
lAttlenhild and Detective—wracant K.l,ille proceeded to
a small Watt-dry in the neighbourhood et Wetarlogcbridiw
road. and on gaining admission quietly effected the rapture
of the man ',tom they were in search. Toe prtsoner,
who offered nwresi.tance, was lit once conveyed is • cab
I. Sc itlsed•yerd, where be was taken bet Chef-Sup
Intandent who hos the chute of all the
arntorments connected with the dynamite oonspirecy.
The prisoner was not formally charged with being cower ed
li. the coospincr, bat was downed, and stabeeqinntir
removed to King-street Foam-station, Westminster,
within • few yard, of the spat -here the recent explosion
at the Union:nem offices took piece. He is what may be
termed an Irish American, and is believed to have come
to .his country at about the sense time as the other pri-
soner.. He is respectebly dr.seed, an.l is much toe same
elms of man as the prisoners Wilson aid Norman.
It meals beyond que-tton that toe plot was conceived In
America, ond he detail, elaborated there. It also impede
to be extremely probable that them wilo wets t noplored
to put it into execution were elmost, If not snits, unkuowa
to each other. They were selected from different parts
of toe western o ptinenr. they crossed the Atlantic by
different ems Is. an I were Inc .tml tut ter the direct.un ot
one guiding mind in var 041 disuirts in Lento.. That
being the ow the d fficuities one materiel by the police In
getting at the r .ot of the conspiracy ave great. In some
q weft 're it is stated teat • supposttion exist that some 70
Or 80 men wire tog .god in the plot, tbe peiocipal ries-
leader b-trig cuie of tit. primmer, in custody. It will he
sa•lefactory to the public to learn that the polio* believe
they have secured nearly, if not all, the risonnsise or
trtr -alarerine that was surreptitiously conveyed to
L onion.
Sum being c =mitts,' to prison Whichead has mein-
tented • taciturnity no, perhaps, very remerk eble under
the Ciltllll2l,4oCed. 111 at drat eh tenni mon dirp wifion
ti preArve in the ga ti the breomio which diet inguisoed
him when arrested, and which, it will be remembered. be
displayed in Lomat ng remarks to We p giro °llia als witn
whom be c.me in cannot The prisoner has since gook
into • [wady silence. R cognising the oeculterly import oat
Doh., of the chard., • ea pool ...Aponte s have taken pre-
caution. altogether extraorditt•i7, considering that White-
pea i te as yet only awaiting trial. He has taken n'
steps to obtain legal assistance for his case next Touredel,
nor ham he given any hint of toe line of doe .ce he is going
to get up. He tikes hie meal, regularly sod with
iapoeut* and kiss hitherto slept well. It is orteetionable
whether anybody would be allowed to gee hint without
authority from the Horne Secretary.
-- LONDON.

AMIXTS

John Kirton. who, it is said. only arrived in this c wintry
within this last term or four days from America. was
apprehended on Saturday by Inspector LittWald at
l&uton-stat on. It is thought that he was goins ts try to
Est away from the metropolis, ending that every moment
of delay might b dangeron.. id. was very wadi .4.,34..d
when taken into custody, aad resisted uaul he was put
into a emh. The prisoner had b.maa staying at an h
near Euston•squars. Hs is an Irishman by birth, haii
been about en years in A.lllO/106, nod belongs to the math
of Ireland.

A quantity of evidently Important papa& letters, and
other documents of Fenian °rutin. hisee reoently
Into the poweesion of the Ss.ford polio, in • miler
eingalar nno.r. A short tdne ago. a: • tale by section
of -household ant getter*" elects. anions the lots was a
tin bix dllod with what wee ruppow I to be old ptper
end worthless rubbish. A p Awe Aka either !tomtit
this box or obtains' pressmen of it -bort', afterwwds.
and in looking over the contents diserrored pipsre re-
lating to the Fenian movement. There were ale° lotto's
from tiertalo members of ?wheaten& Altogether, the
document' were ot such • charsowa that the attention of
Kr. Kershall. the Cole Clonstable of Salford, was called
to lb* eastusr, and after further investigat•on it was
reediret to forward tde whole to the HMO Secret try for
exanslastion. Before deepsteting the parcel to Luidon
lb. Wows war, plaited Astor. thy IlifOr of Sidliwd. and
his worship was made acquaint./ with the content&

THI PILECAUTiONd At WINDSOL
The precaution taken by tbe 5.430 it.. at WiWISOC
Cuts for the purpose of frustrating soy attunpt to
injure the Pelecs bntldlngs ax. conttatioa- DAIL
sentries of ths let Battelion Scots Guartla ma mounted
at tbe new postt on ths N r h-terreos nrar the Royal
Übe .ry, the Dom'. ()toter., between St CI o fte.• Oh p.l.
Deanery, end t`te Albert 11.,n.0rg 4 Chape •ttd th -
St A ben'.-ttreAt e ,tranre to th Royal Itnn, neer toe
Wo lnor PJet-oilloe Tee R ,ytt H tuetho'd polio. are eitto
on the alert, whole the street, of Windsor and the ap-
proach,* to the Castle are c.,lully witch* I by thu
borough constabulary, under Kr. Chief Superintendent
Hay*. Noth.nr up to the present haa, however, ariton
t• give cause for further uneasiest's' with reference to the
matter.

TOR Y MANar Ur RES OUT-MelNa MITRED.
ftir S afford Norton°. and all hie c ic cc. Imo
Cabinet went him., and the Connervative party was
loaderleee. Bet it,t fo: long. Toe Glaveroment, attemoti
int to tusks the m et of the 0440rittlutr. *let forward
with their measure., prop-wing to read • third time the
Arrny B 11. ilr. Onrendish lientinck mitering at this
moment, stood at Ni. Bar and surveyed the 11 mei,
The in mint was critical. In th preeent stare of I.
II KIS the G ierratil Mid .1 run throosh *ram, an.i
steal .1 int in rch on La, Ire, •4 of t -4411t•vi S no.
th og in at ni done, an /11 is, n lush B mtinnk did it.
it, mocha I r poll, down ulmo tie It ant Op owitioo
b inch, tot po,weeion with-,4t a atruggle, anti hirth or icb
eaten-al upon ate Nit satisfied wll3 • pereorial con.
tributi in to blaring CI, Bid. he hurried abo at antonget
the few minsbere on the back benches. exhorting Sir
, Walter Baraelot, woe >arming Amerman Fowier, Inciting
Mr. Werteo, and uoceremonionsly prodding Kr. Olslow
to the small of Ms beck t 3 muss him Irmo untiannms
alonsher. This amergy of decision was contagious Mr.
Onslow, palling himself together, with slow 'peach and
dreamy manner, moved the adjournment of the debate.
The new leader of the Opp wition now returned to hi, seat.
bitched Ms hat a little farther towards the beck of his
head, nod surveyed the Treasury bench with unrestrained
delight. Hs had got them now—had shown them and
other, in high plum whom it more nearly concerned that
If the leaden of the Opposition would attcnl t their
bu.inesr, alive t every anal opportunity of harassing the
enemy, it might he done. It woe now twenty minutes
put twelve. A division taken on the motion for a hoar..
moot would carry them a only over the half boor, after
wtalcl °Primed Mosinee would be tolnok rd. and, ati ive all.
the Ballot Bill, which stood next, would be thrown ov.r.
It was rod, to 15024 over an mita naked noon.. Bat hlt.
Cavendish B intiock really could mit help it. and begat there
smiling and rubbing his ban!,, wamhlng the faces of the
right boo cenUstnen op .ositi. What he saw was very
strange. "drat, Boohoos on Vas pale end workwom visage •
of the Premier bogran to soften. Then came forth
a smile, wLiols grew and grew till the face
positiirly beamed. The smile !limbed along the
Treasury Bench like a train of gunpowder to which
&match had bran applied. T 44 AttOrne7-0411.1,11. on the
right of the Premier, took It up. Si Coulee Ditto shook
with laaghter, and gr. Counherdain, whoa few minutia
earlier bed been sternly rebnked_ky Sir Walter Bartteliat
W
for smiling, sinned once more. het wee even more odd
was that, as the smile broadened Co the fee, of the
P ender, it faded Iro-n the ocpemmise wueuet.c. of Mr.
Cavendish Bentinek. Tner.o appeared to he only one smile
allottxt for the two front lo.mebee, and the Tr...,"
beach had cot it now. Do I Speaker put the notation,
that the debate be edjoirned. Tao C.onservativese lustily
cried" Aye r N answernS Cr yet" No!' came from
the Li *rid aide, anil then the joke we, se in. The Army
Bill blur thus d epoeed of before balf•past twelve Vie
a,an Bill. thn 16 oppose& could he MOOsscled with. Kr.
Oseedliah Boatiork bailed the Conservative Opposition
to the assiatem*.4th, Ballot Bill, .4th. momvnt of his
interference hopelcsely in the background. and before the
Hones rose it was read • seCoed time —oggregr