The Evening critic., 1883-04-20
AN AMERICAN rNFoRMER.


An Exciting scene IN London
Court-Tbe story of Norman, alias
william Joseph Lynch-Dynamfte
C0Dspirators said 10 be Located in
New York.
There was great deal of excitement in
the Bow street Police Court, London, yes
terday, when it was announced that Nor
man, one of the persons arrested in con-
nection with the dynamite conspiracy, had
turned informer. The rest of the party
were formally charged with treason
felony.
Norman. on being called to the stand,
testified that his real name was William
Joseph Lynch, and that he was born of
Irish parents IN the State of New York.
Lynch testified that in October last, while
ho was working at coachbuilders in
Brooklyn, shopmate, named Daniel
O'Connor, induced him to- join secret So
ciety, which was branch of Fenian Or
ganization, tho divisions of which were
called Emerald Clubs. O'Connor took him
TO Odd-Fellows Hall, in New York, and in
an ante-room told him that the object of
the society was to free ireland by force
alone. Lynch, on joining the
society, took an oath to stand
by its watchword, to obey hiss superior
officers, and to observe the laws of the
brotherhood. The members were known
by numbers, and not by their names. The
name of the presiding officer was Thomas
Burns. Lynch said he attended the called
meetings of the club twice each month He
did not know ODonovan Rosa personally,
but heard that he had been to the club
room. He was always spoken Of there as
the old man." He knew, besides O'Con-
nor, two members of the club, both named
Sullivan. On the 7th of March Burns
banded him letter addressed to DIR.
Thomas Gallagher, Manhattan avenue,
Green Point, L. l., opposite New York.
Lynch said the hall in which'he was
sworn-in was in a building on the
corner of Second street and tho
Bowery. The number of the treasurer of
the club was 50, that Of the secretary was
| 13. The password for admission to the
meetings was " Providence" There were
| other associated clubs in New York, such
as the Sarsfield, whose rooms wcle in
| Thirty second street, the Owen Roo and
| the Thomas Davis, which met in Military
HalE the Emmett, located on Eighth ave-
| nue., and the Davitt and Tom Moore clubs,
| of the meeting places of which he was ig-
| norant The persons who managed tho
| clubs were known as district members.
| Their names were not known to
each other. When o member was
| wanted to go on mission the
| president read out his number and told him
to send the president his address, When
| he took the letter given him by Burns to
| DIR. Gallagher, the latter read it and said: /:
"You are wanted to 60 to London. You
will know what for when you get there"
The following day he Uynch) quilted
work without giving his employer notice
and saw Gallagher, who gave him $50, and
| told him to buy a steerage ticket by the
steamer Spain under the name of Norman.
After he had done so he showed the ticket
to Burns, who said: "The old man will see
you righted for that" Gallagher subse-
| quently gave him $780, and told him to go
to London and inquire at the American
Exchange for a letter addressed to him.
He endeavored to excuse himself from
undertaking the London mission, saying he
had mother and sister to maintain, but
| Gallagher replied, "You will only be ab-
sent two months, and your mother will be
seen to in the meanwhile" Gallagher gave
him small box to take to England. He ex
amined this on board the steamer aud
found that it contained spring, which
worked by pressure. Hc was somewhat
alarmed at this discovery, and threw the box
and contents in the sea. He arrived in Lon.
don on the 22d of March. His first act was to
take a letter he had written to Gallagher to
Bowle's Exchange to inform the latter
of his arrival aud where he could be
found He saw Gallagher on the 9th or
26th of March, and walked with him past
the scene of the recent explosion in the
Government Offices at Westminster. He
asked, SIS that what we are going to do? ="
Gallagher replied Eyes, and it won't be
child's play, either" They passed half
way over Westminster bridge, when Gala
gher, who had been viewing the houses of
Parliament, remarked, "They will make a
great crash when they come down."
Gallagher here jumped to his feet and
shouted, "You infamous liar"
The witness continued that returning
they passed Scotland Yard and Gallagher
said, "Ihat is the headquarters Qfdetectives.
1t will come down, too" Gallagher said
he was staying at the Charing Cross Hotel
and gave witness seven pounds, saying,
"Don't run short the old man will provide
for u.s." On April Gallagher told witness
that he wanted him to go to Ledsam street,
Birmingham, and inquire for Whitehead,
and tell him that he (Lynch) had been sent
for material. He had never heard Of White
head before he went to Birmingham that
morning. Before going Gallagher gave
spectacle trunk to put the stuff in. He
went to Whitehead's factory, where he saw
Whitehead and boy.
The boy was here put in the witness box
and identified by Lynch.
Lynch said Whitehead put him in the
| way of procuring lndia-rubber bags In
which TO carry the nitro-glycerine. The
witness confirmed all the evidence given al
the hearing last Thursday as to Gallagher
having called for him under the name o
Fletcher. Witness said that when White
head was loading nitro-glycerine into thu
J rubber bags he told him that man tina
same morning had taken sixty pounds o
, the liquid He asked Whitehead what th
liquid was, and was informed that he woult
soon know.
Whitehead here shouted from the docl,
s"You lie, you traitor"
The witness said Gallagher met him il
London when he returned from Brming
| ham with the nitIo-glycerine. He hat
never seen any of the prisoners before ex
; cept Gallagher and Whitehead. Both O
those men had spoken of sending anothe
man to London, but they did not mention
any name.
! Witness spoke in a weak and indistinc
voice, and at one point of his evidence h
; appeared as if about to faint At the con
clusion of his testimony, while the deposi
, tions were being read, he did faint, and ha
to be removed from the courtroom. Som
of the reports Of his testimony give th
) name of the coachbuilder for whom
} worked in Brooklyn as Merritt, and som
, as Bennett.
ROssn and DYNAMITE