The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-10
nANsION HOUSE OUTRAGE
The Australia I" Arrives, and
she Coleman on Hf, is Not
Ihe Coleman Wanted.

New York, 9.-The overdue
steamship australia, which arrived
to-day, was supposed to carry among
her steerage passengers the Fenian,
Coleman, one of the parties charged
with attempting to blow up the
Mansion House in London. Cole
man, whose name was on the list
turned out to be a mild-lookinc
Englishman, native of Great Var
mouth, Norfolkshire, and a resident
Of Litchfield Springs, Cayuga
County, this state, where he is en-
gagged in the peaceful pursuit oil
farming. He has spent the winter
in England, attending to business,
and was greatly surprised when the
pilot brought on board newspapers
containing reports that the English
government was trying to cap
ture him before his arrival here,
on a charge of being implicated
in the Fenian plot to blow up
the Mansion House. Coleman men
toned a strange incident which oc-
CURED as the australia was leaving
Albert Dock, London. A steerage
passenger complained that the yes
sci was not clean and said he should
not 90 in her. The man then sig
nailed small boat alongside, and
got over one side of the steamer into
Che boat, and was pulled ashore. He
took no baggage with him. Cole
man and a couple Of others, who
saw him, thought it strange that
Steerage passenger would be so fas-
tidious and throw away his passage
on a mere point of cleanliness which
was remedied next day. This man,
he thought, boarded the australia
as passenger to throw the detec-
tives off the scent. and then, as the
vessel left the dock, got off and re-
turned ashore. When he heard that
the Mansion House Coleman was re-
ported as one of the passengers, he
the English Coleman-recalled
the incident. Some of the
passengers say they understood
the Fenian Coleman was on board
under another name and was
mySteriouSly taken away as soon as
the vessel touched the dock, by
friends who had boarded her with
the health officer at Quarantine
The weight of belief is that he did
not come on the australia, but is
still in London or Paris. Great
preparations were made by the
officers of the united Irishmen and
skirmishing fund in this city to
prevent COleman's capture by the
English agent in the bay, and
steamboat was out from last Tues
day with some fifteen or twenty
men on board, looking for the
australia.
1t is reported that Pinkerton'S
detective agency had also a boat Our
trying to secure Coleman. There j.
lgOOd authority for stating that
| Pinkerton applied to the department
of state for permission to arres
| Coleman in the harbor, but Secre
tary Blaine replied: No MAJ
4 should be arrested within maritime
jurisdiction of the United State.
without due process of law"
| O'Donnell, another of the person.
implicated in the Mansion HOuSt
plot, arrived on the French steamel
Vile de MarSetlLes a week ago, an(
was down the bay with others fol
the purpose of identifying Coleman
who was not personally know
to the others. ODonnell has givel
the details of the attempt on tn,
i Mansion House to persons here. H,
says there were six men engaged il
the plot. 1t was decided that if thu
coercion bill passed THAT vengeanc,
was to be wrecked somewhere.