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ANOTHER FENIAN CAP2URE.

BOW-STREET.

Tho following appeared in our Latest Edition of yesterday
evening:—
This day Edward Mohan, but whose real name
is Maugham, was placed at the bar before Sir
Thomas Henry on a charge of treason felony, and
inciting soldiers in the army to desert and join the
Fenian Brotherhood.
Mr. Poland appeared on the part of the Crown
to prosecute, and Mr. M'Donald, instructed by
Mr. W. P. Roberts, of Red Lion-square and Man-
chester, defended the prisoner.
Mr. Poland said he should have.given some addi-
tional evidence to-day, but the offence being com-
mitted some time ago, he had some difficulty in
getting the witnesses together. He would go as
far as he could, but he was afraid he should have
to ask for a remand.
The first witness called was—
Richard Macarthy, who said—l am a sapper in
the Royal Engineers, stationed at Chatham. I
know the prisoner. I first saw him in November,
1865, in Woolwich. I knew him there as Peter
Mohan. I was introduced to him by a man named
Thompson, who went by the aliases of Sinclair,
Williams It. Pilsworth, the latter being, I believe,
the proper name. Thompson was a civilian, and I
was introduced to him by a marine in a publichouse
in George-street, Woolwich. It was a month after
that that I was introduced to the prisoner. I was
then in the Military Train. I took the Fenian
oath. Thomson administered it to me.-
Mr. Poland—State the purport of the oath.
Mr. M‘Donald objected to the question.
Sir T. Henry decided that the witness could
answer it.

Witness—lt was to assist in the establishing a
Republic in Ireland, and to take up arms when re-
quired to do so.
Sir T. Henry—When and where was the oath
administered ?
Witness—At the beer-shop I have mentioned,
and in the month of October. In about
a month after that Thomson introduced
me to the prisoner as a prominent member
of the Fenian Brotherhood. I met the prisoner at
the Duke of Wellington public-house; he was
rather late in arriving, when he said he had
been detained at Aldershot, when he nearly got
into a scrape.
Mr. Poland—What did the prisoner ask you

to do ?
Witness—To get as many men as I could to join
the Fenian Brotherhood. I afterwards went with
Malony, two or three artillerymen, and some of the
Military Train, about 4or 5. The public-house I
speak of was in Wellington-street, Woolwich.
Thomson arrived first, the prisoner did not come
until half an hour behind his time. Thomson, the
prisoner Malony, and myself went out of the public-
house and took a walk in the street for about a
quarter of a mile, during which the prisoner said he
had some news from America, and that he expected
that by the New-year everything would be right in
Ireland. He also said he expected an expedition
would sail from America for Ireland in about three
weeks. The prisoner went on to say that as it was
unsafe to transmit money through the Post-office
he expected a messenger with some from London.
The money was to be partly expended in drink
where they met or to defray any travelling expenses
that might be incurred,
Mr. Poland—What has the prisoner said to you
about the men deserting ?
W i tness—He asked me how many I thought
would go.
Sir T. Henry—What is that—deserting ?
Witness—Yes.
Sir T. Henry—What did you tell him?
Witness—That I could not form any idea.
Sir T. Henry—What was said when the subject
of desertion was talked about ?
Witness—That tha men were to go to London.
Mr. Poland—Was anything said about changing
clothes ?

Witness—Thomson and Mohan said when the
men got to London they would change their regi-
mentals and go in plain clothes to Ireland. I knew
a man named Thomas Farrell. He was a civilian.
I can't say I have seen him with the prisoner and
Thomson. He was a Fenian, and had been con-
victed in London. I also know Spriggins, a car-
penter in Woolwich dockyard. I have seen him
with the prisoner Thomson. Spriggins is a Fe-
nian.

Mr. APDonald—How do you know that ?

Witness—He bas told me so.

Examination continued—The prisoner asked me
for my address, and I wrote on a piece of paper,
" Private Macarthy, No. 9 troop, Military Train,
Woolwich," and gave it to him. Prisoner put the
paper in his pocket. Prisoner did not say anything
to me when he asked for my address further
than that he should want to write to me. I
saw that paper again in Woolwich at the
end of the year 1865. It was then in the posses-
sion of the police. The prisonernever wrote to me,
neither did I desert the service. I never left
Woolwich.

Sir T. Henry you never exchanged your
clothes?
Witness—No.
Sir T. Henry—Did you communicate with your
commanding officer ?

Witness--Yes. I told my commanding officer
immediately after Malony deserted. Capt. Powell
was the officer of No. 9 troop. I did not see the
men before they deserted at Woolwich. Farrell
was at Woolwich the day they went away. It was
in Jan., 1866. I cannot recollect the day I was at
the Thames Police-court. I was there to give evi-
dence against Farrell and another man.

Sir T. iienry—Did you tell your captain tha
you had taken the Fenian oath?

Witness—Yes, sir, I did.
Sir Thos. Henry—When did you change from
the Military Train to the Engineers ?
Witness—Last May, sir, at Chatham.
John Malony recalled—ln addition to his evi-
dence given last Monday he said, in answer to ques-
tions—l went to Vine-court, Whitechapel, to a
house kept by a man named Butler. I slept there
the night I deserted. I changed my clothes there.
Driver Thomas Farrell, of the Royal Artillery ;
gunner Michael Farrell, sth Brigade ; gunners Thos.
Connolly and Neil Coningliam, sth Brigade; James
Gough, Military Train; William Leonard, Military
Train ; M•Carthy, Royal Artillery, field battery ;
and Jeremiah Sullivan, Royal Horse Artillery, were
also at the house, and they all exchanged their uni-
forms for plain clothes in that house. There were
two other soldiers besides, but I forget their
name 3.

Sir T. Henry—Did they all go to Ireland ?
Witness—They did, sir.
Sir T. Henry—ln plain clothes ?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Sir T. Henry—Then eleven men went to Ireland
altogether.
Witness—Yes, sir• _

Mr. Poland—Do you know the Christian name
of the Farrell who was not a soldier, but who came
up with you from Woolwich?
Witness—Yes, sir ; Thomas Farrell. The pri-
soner met us at London Bridge when we came away
from 'Woolwich. He met us with cabs, and stood
some drink before we went to Vine-street.
Mr. Poland—Was Thomson the man we have
been speaking about, and who was tried in Ireland.
Witness—Yes, in April, 1867. He pleaded
guilty of treason-felony, and was sentenced to
10 years' penal servitude . The trial took
place in Dublin and I was present in court.
Inspector William Holloway, of the H division of
police, was at the station when Farrell and Butler
were brought in in custody. It was the 31st of
December, 1865. A pocket-book was found on
him. I examined it and found tho piece of paper
with Macarthy's address on it [This was the
identical piece of paper which the witness
Malony gave to the prisoner at Woolwich].
The witness also produced a quantity of military
accoutrements which had been taken from the house
in Viuc-court. There were portions belonging to
the Royal Engineers, Military Train, Grenadier
Guards, the Royal Irish, and Tower Hamlets Vo-
lunteer Regiments.
Constable Dunnaway said--I found all the arti-
cles produced by the inspector to-day when I
searched the house in Vine-street two years ago.
The owner was taken into custody for inciting sol-
diers to desert.

Mr. Poland said that was as far as he was pre-
pared to go to-day, but he should have evidence on
the next occasion when certain important parti-
culars would be proved against the prisoner.
The prisoner was then remanded for a week.