The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
ADDITIoNAL rELEGRAMs.
CoLEMAN ARRIVES.
The Alleged Fenlan Turns Out to be


The Alleged Fenian Turns Out to be
FulI-F1edged Englishman-
NEW YORK. April 9-Much interest was felt in
arrival of the steamship Australia, which came
late this afternoon from London. both on account
of her being several days overdue and because she
was supposed to carry smong her passengers the
Fenian, Coleman. one Of the parties charged with
attempting TO blow Up the Mansion House in
London. Coleman tzrned out 10 be mild-look
Englishman, a native of Great Yarmouth,
NorfoIksnire, and resident Of Richfeld
Springs, csyuga County, this State.
where ne 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 which contained reports that the
English Cover gent was trying 20 capture him
before his arrival here, on the charge Of being i'm
plicated in the Fenian Plot to blow up the Man
cident whick occurred as the Australia was
leaving the Albert Dock, London. steerage
PASSENGER compliance that the vessel was not not
man then Sgnaled a snail boat alongside and got
over the side of the steamer into the boa. and
pulled ashore. He took no baggage with MIN.
thought it strange that the Storage passenger
would be so fastidioas and throw away his passage
on the nerchantnan's cleanliness, which was
Temedtsd the next day. This man man
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off the scent. and then, as the vessel ieft the
dock got off and returned ashore When he
heard that the Mansion House Coleman was re
ported as one of the passengers he, the English
Coleman recalled she incident TO some OF the
passengers. who say they understood the Fenlan
Coleman on board under another name, but
was mysteri0Rsiy taken away as soon "a the
vessel touched her dock by friends who had
boarded her With the Health officer atquarantine.
I %e Of ns ee d co b
Australia, bGt Is still in London or Paris. Great
preparations were made by the officers or the
United Irishznep skirmishing fund III this city to
prevent Coleman's capture by the English agents
in the bay. A steamboat was out from last Tues
day with scene fifteen or twenty men on board
looking for the Australia
1t has been reported that Pinkerton's Detective
Agency has also 2 boat out trying to secure Cole
man There is good authority for stating that
PinkertOn applied 10 the Department for per-
mission to arrest Coleman in the Harbor. but
Secretary Blaine replied no man should be arrested
within the maritime jurisdiction of the United
States without due process of law.
O'DOnnell, another of the persons implicated in
the Mansion House plot was arrested on the
French steamer Vile De MarSeilleS week ago,
and down the bay with others for the purpose
of identifying Coleman, who was not per
given details OF the attempt on the
says there were six men engaged in the plot. 1t
vengeance was to be wreaked somewhere, and
the Lord Mayor was selected because he, although
an !rishman; was a strong advocate OF the
powder and the box was bound
with the strongest hoop iron at the Egyptian Hall
side of the Mansion House, where the attempt
made. There are three policeman on guard
the semi-circle, which is there formed by
George street and SmlthinS Lane. Each Of1cer
patrols his part every four minutes. Coleman
took the box under his arm and walked close
behind the officer until he came TO the niche in
the building. Coleman rapidly conveyed the
box TO the niche, reaching over an iron
railing to do 50 and placing piece OF carpet on
the base OF the niche to deaden the sound of the
box rs il fell upon il. He then gave the box an
inward slant so the force Of the conclusion would
he directed inward. He cut the fuse so as TO reach
the powder in minute and half or about
minute before the policeman would have
returned. As he left he met woman and
child. Coleman joined his aceomplices, who
waited four blocks away for the report, but the
woman The fuse on fire. and policeman
whom she summoned cut il when about couple
OF inches from the powder and saved the Man
O'DonneiI and another skirmisher named
Mooney left the next morning for France, and
from Havre on the 18th of March. The other
four remained in London.
1t can be stated Oh the best authority
Skirmishers meeting in this
city, few evenings ago, considered the matter of
shooting to death two men at Ballahadarlan,
County Mayo, on the previous saturday, By the
police 1t was decided that their deaths were
brought about by the enforcement of Gladstone's
coercion act. Gladstone was declared guilty
of murder and sentenced 10 death. How the
sentence is to be executed 10 a ques-
ton under consideration. They say they consider
the Queen anoneuity and do not hold her to be
the responsible ruler.
The Times has a positive story about
the arrival of Coleman IL says: Patrick
Coleman, the Fenian, who is supposed
To have been engaged in attempting to blow up
the Mansion House, London. on the night OF
March 16 is safe in the hands of his friends in
this city. He arrived in the steamer Australia
last evening, and landed ut the pier foot OF West
Tenth street, without molestation aud without
0rrr1ifi hv hD1x- rHpy
instructed with the charge of bringing
him safely from the steamer. The Fenian Broth
erhoOd made arrangements to prevent any sur
prise either on the steamer or dock, and had
there been any movement toward arresting the
man there IL no doubt but that a bloody resist
ance would have been encountered. As it
was he sauntered quietly down the gang plank
of the steamer, and, with leading members OF the
Fenian Brotherhood on either side of him,
passed down West street short distance and
entered a bar-room, when all trace of him
lost.