The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-11

According to the prisoners statement he
| shipped on the Monday MAY 81 on board
the bark Gladstone, bound for Caracas,
| and in further considerations of the
prisoners story, reference to the reports
of the outward sailings of vessels from
Swansea about that date discloses the
fact that on May IL the bark Gladstone
of Swansea. cleared for Caracas, under the
| command of Mr.. Richards The Glad
| stone is a small bark of 297 tons register
and built in Prince Edwards Island in
1873. So far the prisoners statement is
| fully borne out by the facts above
| enumerated, and, in con junction there
| with. it is a remarkable circumstances that
| on Tuesday. May 8, the day after that
upon which O'Brien states that he shipped
| on board the Gladstone, a man was ar
| rested upon suspicion at Haverfordwest
as answering the description of one of the
men concerned in the Dublin murders. He
was in the company OF a woman and gave
| the name of William Ivory, of Kilma
| coome, County Waterford. and said he was
| a farm laborer He also stated that he had
arrived from Waterford at New Milford
that morning by the steamer Milford. and
| that he and his sweetheart were on their
| way to Swansea to be married. He had
| on Jerry" hat and brown tweed suit
underneath being dirty shirt, on which
were spots of blood. He accounted for
| these by saying that they proceeded from
| his nose, which had bled about a fortnight
| before There were no papers found upon
him, and he was subsequently released
| The remarkable fact is that this man should
| have crossed from Ireland by almost the
same route as that by which it is now sup
posed the prisoner OBrien travelled, and
that within two days after the date upon
which the latter had so crossed over.
If O'Brien left by the mail train from
KIngsbridge at quarter to s. as the cir
cumstances suggest, his escape was &C
complished so quickly that the police
would not have been appraised of the crime
in sufficient time to watch the departure of
the train in question, as the bodies of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke were
not discovered by the police until twenty
minutes to 8, and no action would appear
to have been taken by the police until some
time after that and the possibility of one
or more of the murderers having left BY
this train does not seem to have struck the
detectives who took the matter up. The
Scotland Yard authorities are not taking
any present action in the matter of O'Brien's
arrest, the case being in the hands of the |
Irish police, to whom, however. Mr.. Supt, |
Williamson and his staff are ready to |
be required. 1t is understood that an ex- |
perienced member of the detective staff |
connected with the royal Irish constabu- |
larry will at once be sent to Caracas to re- |
ceive O'Brien into custody The British |
government has no eXtradition treaty with |
Venezuela; but there is reason to expect |
that the authorities there will place no OBJ
stacles in the way of sending the prisoner
to Ireland for trial. especially as the re-
ports to hand state that he has been arrest
ed on his own confession. Additional
particulars tele graphed from Swansea con-
corning the man OBrien, alias Wastgate,
confirm the statement of his having shipped
on the bark Gladstone, at that port. It
appears that about the date named he ac-
costed ship runner close to the canal at
Swansea and asked for boarding house,
explaining that he had little money The
runner asked him if he was fireman, and
he answered that he was both fireman
and sailor. He lodged for few days
at a hotel in the Strand, Swansea, the land
lady of which describes him as being very
dirty poor, and much mentally depressed,
and that he avoided speaking to anyone.
He was shipped on the Gladstone as
pier jumper. When leaving he gave the |
address of his wife in Dublin, arranging
that part of his salary should be sent to
her, and this has been done. He admitted
to the landlady of the Museum hotel tn at
he was native of Dublin.
A singular complication has arisen in
connection with Westgate's visit to Swan
sea. Mr. Williams, an officer of the board |
Of trade, shortly after the Phoenix park as
saw a suspicious looking man
lettering about the doors of the mercan
tile marine Offices at Swansea He enter
ed into conversation with him and found |
that he not only answered the newspaper
description of one of the men wanted in
Dublin but that he was native of Dublin
and had just arrived from that city. He
appears to have shipped on board the Ne
va for Leghorn, in the name of Evans but
on hint he was arrested by detective
Jones, of the Swansea police, and then
gave his real name as Harwin, stating that
his mother resided at Warrenpoint, county
Dublin. The Swansea police, described
him by telegraph to the Dublin police,
who replied that the man named Harwin.
giving the very address quoted, had been
arrested in Dublin on suspicion, but
had been discharged, as there
was no evidence against
him. Harwin then admitted to the Swan
sea police that he had been arrested on
suspicion in Dublin as stated. He was
discharged from the custody of ,
he Swansea police and proceed to Leg =.
horn. 1t now appears that he and West
gate were seen together in Swansea, and I
Harwin, who is supposed to have deserted :
rom the Gladstone in the name of Evans, !