The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

THE FENIAN&

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The fourteen men arrested at Merthyr were brought
up on Manday st the Police-court of that town, and
charged with tresson.felony. Tbe prisoners, who were
confined in Cardiff gaol. were conveyed to Merthyr bo
special trein, in charge of • strong body of polio., who
were armed with cutlasses. Upon their arrival at
Merthyr they were c•nveyed to the police-station, and
their subsequent elimination sr., taken before Ur.
Fowler, the stipendiary. and other megixtrate.• The
whole day was occupied in receiving the evidences of
Patrick iloffee, • prisoner in Swansea gaol swatting his
iris' for administering a Fenian osth, and who has
turned informer. His evidenos showed that the Fentso
organisation at Merthyr had assumed very formidable
proportions, end that if it had remaioed undiscovered a
short time longer something desperate might have been
attempted. Petrick Darien and others of Cie rrisooere•
he eaid, used to meet at • public-house called the Ellie
of Erin, at Dowleic and there Fenian soap were sang
and recitations given. All who joined the Brotherhood
had an oath administered to them, but this was not
done in the presence of other., but in the bock yard of
the public•house. The head -aentre (Doran) gave Coffee
the °elk to learn, with instructions that when he bad
done no he was to destroy it. It -as when Coffee was
administering this oath that he was apprehended.
Coffee spoke to men assembling for drill on the
Mountains on Sunday nights. His evident* implicated
the whole of the poisoners, with three exceptions, and
these were discharged. The others were remanded
until next Tuesday.

THE CLRRIENWILL CONSPIRATORS.
The five preoners charged with having been con-
cerned in the Clerkenwell outrage were brought up on
Monday at Bow-street. Abbott, the lad who was so
severely injured by the explosion, ..ore that William
Desmond was toe man who fired the barrel. A carman,
named Stratton. identified Timothy Deemond as having
been by the aide of the track at the time of It. being
drawn to the prism wall. The prisoners were again
remanded. The two Desmond', O'Keefe, and MuHatay
were then charged with tremon-felony, and after
lather evidenom had been taken, there ware also re-
manded.
ALARM AT SININD)I.

TINIAN

On afoneay morning some excitement was crested at
the stores of the Onset Western Railway by the
seemingly trifling circumstance of • stranger calling at
Its works and wanting to purchase a quantity of grease.
He was apparently a man of about 30 and 35 years of
age. wearing a light moustache and beard. On beieg
told that no such a thing was for sale, he expressed no
astonishment, but, on the contrary, asked several very
pertinent queetions respecting the factory, the number
of men employed, and above all appesred to be onxinus as
to the miter" of the stores, and their relative positions
in the factory. While asking those questions be would
now and then tern his back to the person be was
addreseine, and in a small pocket book make a
note. This circumstance aroused suspiaion, never-
theless the fellow was allowed to depart. On
reaching the outside of the factory be was joined by
two other men. Inquiry was at once made, and
it was found that while the fellow had been toads the
worts under the pretence of buying the grease, two
other men had been observed loitering near the works,
and on the line. From the eireamstence of the vita to
the store., coupled with the intimation the oomran•
bad hitherto received, the idea flashed across the minds
of the official. connected with the Great Western
Railway at Swindon that an attack on the factory and
stores wee in contemplation. Aetardingly the polies
were coot mnniested with, and impiety were oommenced
by Supenntendent Hayee, of the Swiudon division of
Wilts Conetahnlary. The result of theme inquiries
proved beyond • doubt that • number of men employed
in the factory had not only lyen in the habit of send•
log money to the places where Fenian "Centres"
existed, but that they bad openly avowed Fenian
sympathies. It was also discovered beyond a doubt
that Fenien meetings bad taken plata in private houses
in New Swindun, and also at a beer-house kept by an
Irishman.