Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-27
ANOTHER IRISH 1NFoRMER.
Lynch, Alias Norman, Turns Inform
err Against His Fellow Dynamite
Prisoners In London.

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Lynch, Alias Norman, Turns Inform.
er Against His Fellow Dynamite
Prisoners In London.
A special dated London, April 10, says:
Norman, Dalton. Wilson, DR.. Gallagher,
Curtin, Ansburgh and Whitehead, the eight
arrested on charge of being concerned in the
dynamite conspiracy. were again brought up
in the Bow street police court this morning.
1t was noticed as q significant fact that Nor
man was conveyed to the court room by a
detective separately from the other prison.
ers. Whitehead who was brought here
from Birmingham for trial, protested
against handouts. He declared the en-
trance to the court room was the Gate
of hell" On the prisoners being arraigned
in the court room, it was an,
tu~rnedtinformer. The rest of the prisoners,
including Bernard Gallagher and White
bead, were formerly charged with treason
and felony. Poland, in opening tE, case
for the crown, said he had a quantity Of
fresh evidence against the prisoners which
would be furnished at the proper time.
Norman testified that:
His real name was William Joseph
Lynch, born OF Irish parents in the state of
New York. He worked in October last at
a coach builders in Brooklyn. A shop
mate, Daniel O'Connor, induced him TO
join a secret society, a branch Fenian organ
~lzation, divisions of which were called EN-
erald clubs. O'Connor took him to Odd
Fellows hall, New York, and in the ante
room told him the object of the society was
to free Ireland by force alone. Lynch, in
joining the society, took an oath to stand
by its watchward, obey his superior officers,
and observe the laws of the brotherhood.
The members were known by numbers.
The nance OF the presiding officer was Tnom.
as Burns. Lynch attended called meetings
of the club twice each month; didn't know
O'Donovan Rosa personally but heard he
ways spoken ofthere as the ''old man.
Knew, besides O'Conror, two members of
the club both named Sullivan. The number
Of the treasurer of the club was 50, and OF
the secretary Ii. The password for admis-
sion to the meetings was Providence"
There were ether associated clubs in New
York: The Sarstield, Thirty Second street.
over Roe Il Thomas Davis military hall;
the Emmett, Eighth avenue, and Davitt aud
Tom Moore clubs. The district members
We're not known to each other. When q
member was wanted to so on a mission
the president read out his number and told
him TO send the president his address.
He (Lynch) was sent to DR.. Thomas Gal
lagher, who lives on Manhattan avenue at
Green Point, l.. l. Gallagher told him he
was to go 70 London; he would know what
for when he got there. Gallagher gave him
$50 and told him to take Storage passage
by the steamer Spain, under the name of
Norman. Gallagher gave him 500 more
and told him to go to London and inquire
at the American exchange for a letter adj
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as he had relatives to support, but finally
went. Gallagher gave him a small box.
He examined this on the steamer and find
ing it contained a spring which worked by
pressure became alarmed and threw it into
the sea. Lynch reached London March 9,
and met Gallagher in London the 9th or
scene of the Westminster explosion. On
his asking Gallagher if " that's what we are
going to do" the latter answered Eyes,
Gallagher viewed he houses of parliament
and said, They will make a great crash
when they come down" AT this point
Gallagher shouted out from the dock: "You
are an infamous liar!" Lynch replied with
q statement of Gallagher as to what destruc-
ton was to be wrought Gallagher and the
witness passed Scotland yards and Gala
CHER said That is the headquarters of de-
t%ectives, and that will come down too.'
Gallagher said he was staying at Charing
Cross hotel, and gave the witness Ct, saying,
Don't run short, the old man will pro.
vide for us" Lynch went to Birmingham
to see to Whitehead's request for some ma.
terial. Gallagher gave him money to buy
q presentab!e trunk in which to put the
stuff lie was to get from Whitehead.
Whitehead put hia in the way of get.
ting India rubber bags. Lynch con-
firmed all the evidence submitted at the
hearing last Thursday as to Gallagher hav-
ing called for him as Fletcher. He said
when Whitehead was loading the nitro-gly-
cerine into the rubber bags he told Lynch
that fifty pounds had been taken away that
morning. Whitehead also said he would
soon know what the liquid was. White.
head here shouted, "You lie! you traitor
Lynch further testified that Gallagher met
him when he returned to London from Bur
mingham with nilro-glycerine. He had
never seen any of the persons before except
Gallagher and Whitehead. Lynch identified
a boy he saw with Whitehead in the factory
of the latter in Birmingham. The witness
had never seen any of the persons before
except Gallagher and Whitehead. BON
spoke Of sending another 1nan to London,
but did not mention any name.
The witness spoke in a weak and indis.
tinct voice, ana at one time appeared abo u
to faint. Atthec conclusion of the testimony
and while dispositions were being read, he
did faint, and was removed from the court
room. Bernhard Gallagher states that he is
q native OF Scotland, and returned from
America to work as an iron molder. Hi.
brother, DR.. Gallagher, paid his passage
Bernard is ignorant of the DOCTORS business
Bernard says he was not a Fenian or a mem.
Der of any secret society. He declares he
was in Sing Sing, N. Y, at the time OF the
explosion in Glasgow.
The London Times says: BE-
If Lynch's evidence can be satisfactorily
proved, and it can be shown that ODono.
van Rosa furnished the large sum O.
money found on DR.. Gallagher, it will e q
question for consideration whether O'Dono.
van Rosa cannot, by some sort of interna.
tional procedure, be made anlendable te
the laws of the empire. The Irish conspira
tors must be considered criminals and not
beligerents. 80
Governors of all the States.
The Governors of the States are,
Alabama, Edward A. O'Neal; Arkansas
James II. Berry; California, George
Stoneman; Colorado, James 3. Grant,
Connectic ut, Thomas M. Waller; Della.
ware, Charles G. Stockley; Florida, vii.
liam D. Bloxham; Georgia, vacant; Hi
nois, John M, Hamilton: Indiana. AL.