Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-08
ARREST OF FENIANs.

Gunner Flood.
ARREST OF FENIANs.
Correspondence London POST
Upwards of one hundred arrests were
made in Dublin on the 18th ut, princi-
nallv strangers among Others Col. John
William Byron, of the Federal army
man named Fitzgerald, who al
Ieges he is an officer in the American
service. has been arrested in Fermoy.
ON the person of the prisoner was found
a pocketbook containing the names OF
six other soldiers. The magistrates have
been holding private investigation with
reference 10 the names found Ia the
pocketbook, but with what result is not
known. It is said the soldiers deny ever
having seen the prisoner.
Another double Cf Stevens has turned
up in the county of Kilkenny. He car
ried a wallet stuffed with hay F; his adj
dress was singularly polished and gentle
manlike, his complexion fresh, his beard
large. pointed under the chin, and
slightly fringed with gray at the end,
his hands and feet remarkably small, his
/ height five feet seven inches, his eyes
/ brown, his figure stout and over his
I forehead quite bald. Everything seemed
to indicate that he was the Head Center
/ Stevens himself who was thus wander
/ ING about the country in disguise. He
/ has been remanded for eight days.
At the head police Office yesterday a
man who gave his name as John Carey,
/ but who is supposed to be sullivan,
/ against whom a warrant had been issued
I in Cork, was brought up on a charge Of
heingimpicatedin in the Fenian conspiracy.
/ The prisoner had been pointed out TO the
constable in Dame street on the previous
dav as a person against whom warrant
( had been issued in Cork. The apprOver,
I John Warner, was examined, and idenh
1 fed the prisoneras the Center for Nal
( low. county of Cork lie also proved
| that he saw him frequently attending
| Fenian meetings in Cork, in the house OF
John G.. Geary, and on one occasion he
knew of him to bring a subscription of e
from Mallow and give it TO Geary. He
was remanded.
ATTEMPT To SURPRISE SENTRlEs.
From Saunders Dublin News letter.
Aneye witness informs US Of some
what strange occurrence which took place
at the Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park, one
night last week. 1t appears that some
time near midnight the sentinel whose
post Of duty is nearest the entrance gate
heard footsteps approaching the gate on
the outside, and on his moving towards
ntO look out, the parties, evidently more
than one, moved away round the fort To-
ward another sentinel stationed on the
works, who says he distinctly saw four
men, whom he challenged butreceived
no answer The men outside at the same
time crouched down and cTept along to-
ward anotherof thesentinels, who in turn
challenged the strangers and alarmed the
guards and inmates of the fort, when the
intruders probably thought that they had
carried their reconnaissance far enough
for one night, and sCampered of, and
were not again seen, Notwithstanding
every search was made through the park
by parties of military and cOnstabulary
till far in the morning. However, rein
forcements were sent the following morn
ing, and such orders given TO guard
against surprise, that similar expert
ment, whether in frOllc or in earnest,
will, in all probability, convince the par
ties who seem so interested in that place,
that gJnpOwder is a dangerous plaything
for children or fools, and the less they in
terfere with it the better.
FENIAN MUNITIONS OF WAR.
Correspondence London Times.
Acting on private information, In
spectors Doyle and Flower and Constable
Quin proceeded yesterday to the house,
- South Earl street, occupied byawidow
named KeaTney and her nephew, John
Hayden, q boy about sixteen years of
age, who was taken into custody. On
his person was found a number OF rifle !
bullets, percussion caps and a brass de- |
tOnating bullet mould. He could not !
account for the articles found in one Of |
the bedrooms, which consisted Of no less |
than 100 rounds of Enfield rife ear |
tridges, powder and bullets complete, |
1900 rifle bullets, boxes Of cartridge paper |
cut by machinery, numerous tm dishes /
and measures for powder, powder flask, |
and three casks which had been emptied |
Of the powder which they contained to |
make cartridges.
AN TNFORNIER SHOT.
1t appears that a constable named Cur |
ran, who was off duty between nine and |
ten pm. ,ssheard shots fired near his lodg- |
ings at Margaret place, Royal canal. He |
went ont. and on approaching the place I
from which the sound proceeded, he |
heard men Whispering One of them APP |
preached, and fired pistol in his face |
this was followed by a second shot from /
another person, fortunately without ef- |
feet. The two men ran away and escaped |
through a garden at the house Of Mr.. |
diately reported by constable Curran 10 /
the police station at Glasnevin, from |
which a strong force proceeded to the gar /
den of Mr.. Waters, and made a careful |
search of that and the adjoining prem |
ises, but no trace of the perpetrators of |
the outrage could be found. While the !
police were employed making the search /
they were informed that a man was lying
murdered on the canal bank. They in
stantly proceeded along the banks of the |
canal, and between the fifth and sixth /
lock, which are situated near the large
building known as Mallet's Mills, they |
discovered a man named George Clarke, |
about forty years Of age, lying in a help /
less state ON the ground, bleeding pro-
fusely from three wounds in the head |
and neck. Clarke stated that he was
walking along the banks of the canal, IN
company with three men, only one of |
whom he knew, " hen he was struck two
blows on the head from behind by some /
weapon which appeared to him 10 be the
butt end of a musket, and in an instant
after a shot was fired, which passed |
through his neck, and inflicted a mortal
wound.
There is no doubt Of the fact that il was
Clarke who gave the information about
the armory in Lotus lane.
TRIAL OF GUNNER FLOOD.
DUBLIN, February la
The c0urtmartial upon gunner Flood,
Of the Royal artillery, charged with wri-
ting a letter 10 the Irish People, sat again
yesterday. At the commencement Of
his defense, the prisoner said The /
honorable and gallant Colonel Fielding
has expressed hope that the court
would find sufficient evidence to convict
me, not 50 much on account OF the pun
ishment which they may be able 10
award, but in the hope that the proceed
iDgs of this general cOurtmartial may
serve as a warning tOthe rest Of the army,
which he acknowledges has hitherto
been above all suspicion of disloyalty
and disafTection. But l am quite sure
that the honorable and gallant Colonel
and tins honorable court would deeply
regret that even so unimportant 8 MEM
Der of the service should be con-
victed on any evidence that has
not been full, complete and salts
factory. And may, perhaps, be allowed
to say that more would be done toward,
the loyalty of the army by
the failure 10 prove that even one OF
their comrades was tainted with disailec-
ton than could possibly be done by es-
tablishiug his guilt Having declared
that the evidence of an lni0rmer ought
not TO be relied upon, ne fatty declared
that be was not the writer Of the letter
which was found la the Office of the Irish
Pe0Dte with his name attached TO il.
d" The letter was written" me said, "by
some one anxious 10 do me an injury. i
would, had I ever entertained Feuian
sentiments, have been sure to hSve spo-
ken something at one time or another
giving evidence Of my feelings; and if / /
had been cautious enough not 10 do so be-
fore, is il at all likely that, in the very !
way, and al the very time when a dis
closure must prove most dangerous, !
would voluntarily make i.-at a time,
too, when the very language attributed
to me would in itself show that J fully /
realized the rjsE incurred by a
peryCa writing 10 the paper? The
letter Is not mine; and | respectfully
and earnestly invite the attention Of the
court to this Suspicious circumstance, that
the pOstmark GA the envelope and the
da.e Of what is produced As the enclosure
are wholly inconsistent with each other. /
IL is not for me 10 clear up this difficulty
but ana confident that the court will
consider Il well deserving of considera-
tion. "Flood next dweit at some length
upon the danger of cOnYicting a man in
his position upon the alleged Identity of
his handwriting with that in the letter.
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