Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-11

New YORK, April 9-Much interest was
felt in the arrival of the steamship Australia,
which came in late this afternoon from Lon
don, both on account of her being several
days overdue and because she was supposed to
carry among her Storage passengers the
Fenian, Coleman, one of the parties charged
with attempting to blow up the Mansion
house in London. The Coleman
whose name was on the list turned
out to be a mild-looking Englishman, native
of Great Yarmouth, Norfolkshire, and a resi-
dent at Richtield Springs, ONEIDA county, this
State, where he is engaged in the peaceful
pursuit of farming He had spent the winter
in England with relatives and attending to
business. He was greatly surprised when the
pilot brought on board newspapers containing
reports that the English government was trying
to capture him before his arrival here on
charge of being implicated in Fenian plot to
blow up the Mansion house. Coleman men,
toned a strange incident which occurred as
the Australia was leaving Albert dock, Lon
don. A Storage passenger complained that
the vessel wasn't clean, and said he should not
go in her. The man then signalled a small
boat alongside and got over the side of the
steamer into the boat and was pulled
ashore He took no baggage with him. Cole
man and some Others who saw him thought it
strange that Storage passenger would be so
fastidious and throw away mis- passage on
mere point of cleanliness, which was remeded
the next day. his man, he thought, boarded
the Australia as passenger to throw detec-
tives off his stent, and then as the vessel left
the dock get off and return ashore. When
he heard that the Mansion house Coleman
was reported as one OF the passengers, he, the
EngliShman Coleman, recalled the incident.
Some of the passengers say they understood
that the Fenian Coleman was on board under
another name, and was mysterlously taken
away as soon as the vessel touched the docks,
by friends, who boarded her with the health
officers at quarantine. The weight of belief
is, that Coleman, the Mansion house plotter,
did not come on the Australia, but is still in
London or Paris. Great prepar
ations were made by officers
of the United Irishmen's fund in this city to
prevent Coleman's capture by English agents
in the bay, and a steamboat was out from last
Tuesday with some fifteen to twenty men on
board looking for the Australia. 1t is report
ed detective agency had also boat out try
ing to secure Coleman.
There is good authority for stating that
Pinkerton applied to the department of state
for permission to arrest Coleman in the har
Dor, but Secretary Blaine replied that no man
should be arrested within the maritime juris
diction of the United States without due pro-
cess of law.
O'Donnell, another of the prisoners impli-
Gated in the Mansion house plot, arrived on
the French steamship Vile de Marselles a
week ago, and was down the bay with Others
for the purpose of identifying Coleman, who
was not personally known to the others.
ODonnell has given details of the attempt on
the Mansion house to persons here. He says
there were SIX men engaged in the plot 1t
was decided that if the coercion bill passed
vengeance was to be wreaked. The
because he. although himself an
Irishman, was a strong advocate of coercion
and voted for it, In the box were one hundred
pounds of giant powder and the box was
bound with the strongest hoop iron. AT the
Egyptian hall side of the mansion house,
where the attempt was made, there are three
policemen on guard around semi-circle which
is III ere formed by George street and st.
Smitchen's lane. Each officer patrols his
post every four minutes. Coleman took the
box under his arm and walked close behind an
officer until he came to the niche in the
window. Then Coleman rapidly conveyed
the box to the niche, reaching
over an iron rail to do SO,
and placing piece of carpet on the niche to
deaden the sound of the box as it fell npon it.
He then gave the box an increased SLANT so
directed inward. He cut the fuse so rs to reach
the powder in a minute and a half, or about
minute before the policeman would have re-
turned. AS he left he met a woman and child.
Coleman Joined his accomplices, who waited
few blocks away for the report, but the woman
observed the fuse on fire and the policeman
whom she summoned cut it when about a
couple Of inches from the powder and saved
the Mansion house.
.,,,l n1 1aft
next morning for France, and Mooney is now
in Paris, O'Donnel sailing from Havre on the
10Th of March The other four renamed in
London.
It can be stated on the best authority that
the executive council of the skirmishers at a
meeting few evenings ago in this city con-
suited on the matter of the shooting to death
of two men at Ballaghdoran, County Mayo
on the previous Saturday by the police. 1t
was decided that their deaths were brought
about 10y enforcement of Gladstones coercion
act, and Gladstone was declared guilty of
murder and sentenced TO death. How the
sentence is to be executed is now the question
under consideration.
The Times has positive story about the
arrival of Coleman. 1t says: Patrick Cole
man, the Fenian, who is supposed
10 have been engaged in the attempt
to blow up the Mansion house in London,
the night of March 10th, is safe in the hands
of his friends in this city. He arrived in the
steamer Australia last evening. He landed at
the pier'foot of West Tenth street without
molestation and without recognition by any
body except those who were entrusted with
the charge of bringing him safely from the
steomer The Fenian brotherhood made ar
engagements to prevent surprise either
on the steamer or deck, and had there been a
movement made toward arresting Coleman
there is no doubt bloody resistance would
have been encountered. As it was, he saun-
tered easily down the gang plank of the
steamer as soon as she was docked, with a
leading member of the fenian brotherhood on
either side, passed down West street short
distance and entered bar-room, where all
traces of him were lost.
THE GLOBE HOROSCOPE.