Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-14
CONCERNING THE FESgANs.
Particulars of the Escape of EIeaci-CenfI
HfepsieEs-EiOT ne Passed through En-
HaEsi-SDppUlRIiOu5


atepEiens-FiOvF he Passed through Eng
Easad-Specu1aLiOns.
The latest English journals confirm the reports
already published that James Stephens escaped to
Paris by the simple process of passing through Lon
don and taking passage by steamer-no detective
discovering him and no Fenian betraying his pres
ence.
The London DAILY Telegraph publishes a private
letter from Colonel Kelly Stephens travelling com
banlon who writes from Paris under date of March
Although you thought Mr. Stephens had left the
ofall the vigilance of the British spies he left his
lodgings on an outside car, got board vessel in
amusing to me to see him pass several policemen on
the quays and walk deliberately on board We were
three days In the channel owing TO bad winds We
ultimately reached port in ScOtlandSept all night
IN hlmarn0ck-rOde IN the mail train next day from
there to London-slept in Londop-&nI in the morn
ing IN the heart OF the enemy city, after sleep
ing al night in u hotel across the street from
buckingham Palace, (in he Palace Hotel) Started
~ the morning tram from the Victoria station for
lover we got on board the French mail steamer
there about eleven O'Clock Sunday, and started
for Calais which We reached in safety. Wasn't ny
nm Nm aPPy "neh touched french soil, ana
tho chief organizer of the Irish republic in a posi-
ton to laugh at the bndly mad chd-like efforts of
the British to capture him Alter all tho searches
OF ships and steamers outside the Irish coast so well
were we informed Of their every movement that the
affair was comparatively easy. The next time that
James STEPHENS touches Irish soil no will show the
British that their b4rbarpus treatment of Irish pa
= ~ 4A'SSSbAN-
out as they FTE2Posed !EPPo sltls to de- g.
make us fight before we were ready they played a
desperate card and lost just wait and see the effect
OF the arrival Of Mr. stephens in America, and you
yet; Next Christmas | have ccaGdence / viii dine
YIN 5h you as tree anu independent citizen of the
1riSh Itepuoe.
Kind remembrance, yours, &c,
THOMAS j. KELLY"
The Paris correspondent SG tle London Sunday
GG=a;:s writes:
From what, can learn, Mr.. Stephens, vixen he
was snached from his hOrticu ltural pursuits in the
vicinity OF Dublin and brought before the magistrate
was speedily made aware that arrangements had been
made to deliver him from the grippe of the Saxon,
and difficulty was experienced in effecting his re-
lease. Ihat the Irish police had ever been on the
point of seizing him Mr. STEPHENS denies. and nntii
ne considered necessary in the interest Of the cause
ne advocates to leave ireland in order to cross the
Atlantic and nave a friendly chat with his Ameri-
can colleague OMahony, he remained unmolested in
Dublin. He never resorted to any Disguise and
he may now be seen in Paris wearing the same beard
which he wore when committed to prison. The fact
OF the matter is that Stephens who studied the mys
teres of secret tt capital and who be-
came tsed t9 learn how the Reds maintained their
organzatlon at once esablisheda counter police and
the detectives of the Castle watched by the de-
teclves Of stephens; When Mr.. Stephens decided
on leaving Ireland, he went down to Galway and
took berth on board a small schooner; bad weather
Obliged the skipper to put into the Lough of Belfast
where he remained three days, Tuo schooner again
put to sea. IL tha nope Of being able to make the
French coast but the weather became dirty and she
was forced to run for Ardr0ssan and cast Jonah
ashore. Mr.. stephens passed through Scotland and
England any ordinary passenger and crossed over
from Dover to Calais He will shOrtysail from Havre
for New ork on board of French steamer, which
VIII not toucn at southampton and when ne has set
tied those weghty anairS which induced him to leave
Dublin, he intends returning to Ireland to take up
the thread of his conspiracy Some of the Fenians
who reside here consider the Irish movement prema-
ture, and find they do not expect any active asss-
tance from the American government"
The London Morning Hsratd Indignantly OBJ
serves:
Although warned by the seizure of the news
i'm
the Head Center still continued to ply his vocation
and instead of quitting tho country as it was sup
posed he had DONE merely took up his residence in
suburban villa where he INDUCED his taste for hor
cultQre-and which he contrived to fill with costly
turniture-up to the moment of his arrest The sue
cesst1i escape of Stephens is, perhaps unexampled
in our criminal history. and only bo compared in
hardihood and daring to that OF the Pretender from
Scotland. after his unsuccessful attempt 10 regain the
throne Of his ancestors. 1t was accomplished how
eyer under far more dangerous and disadvantageous
circumstances"