The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-04-26
The Dynamite Conspiracy.

The Dynamite Conspiracy.
The exposure of the conspiracy to intro
duce dynamite into general use us Il means
OF revenge on England and as an agency Of
freedom for Ireland, is just now attract
ing attention the world over. Everyone
wishes to be Informed as to the persons
and their movements. who are willing to
resort to such desperate means and en-
counter such fearful dangers. a dynamite.
OF nitrO-glycerine manufactory was dis
covered in Birmingham under the charge
Of a man named Whitehead. The premi-
ses were watched, and a man passing by
the name of Norman, but whose real name
is Lynch, an American of Irish prentage,
was arrested because he visited the prem
ises. He turned informer About six
weeks ago he left New York, taking pas
sage in the name of Norman--was sup
piled with plenty of money and carried
with him an Internal machine, which he
guarded with great deal of care, and by
reason of this attracted attention on his
passage across the ocean, The London
Times says Of him:
This prisoner conveyed from Birming-
ham. at imminent risk to the train by
which he travelled and the thoroughfares
through which he passed. a box containing
large quantity of nitro-glycerine, the
most destructive of the known explosives.
The arrest of Whitehead and Norman,
moreover, led to the apprehension of two
more OF their supposed confederates. Upon
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dressed to MI. Thomas Gallagher. The
London police, proceeding to Nelson
Square, Blackfriars, surprised, not only
Gallagher, but his companion, Wilson.
Gallagher, who describes himself us u
physician, is evidently a man of superior
education. Few cOnSpiracies so elaborate
as that Which seems to have been run to
earth have ever been organized without
some tOlerably educated mind, OF minds
at the bottom of them. Hitherto no spirit
stoweriMg much above the rest has been re-
vealed Ill the present conspiracy, nor need
we suppose that the arch-conSpirators are
to be found anywhere in these islands !;
but Gallagher appears to be at least IN
approach to the more commanding type.
| Gallagher and Wilson were also in possess
sion of a quantity of nitro-glycerine. con-
! tanned in India-rubber cases..
Ht Clut W lue llItlluluClOrN CAUSED
Norman to be watched, followed and cap
tured. This is the history of the Birming-
| ham discovery;
For the past two months the attention
OF the birmingham police has been di-
rected to the proceedings Of man named
Albert Whitehead, who. in February last
came to London and took a small shop in
Ledsam street, Ostensibly for selling wall
| papers, oil and brushes He did no trade
! to speak Of, yet he gave large orders for
chemicals to various manufacturers, and
always paid for his goods in cash. From
one firm he is known to have bought within
9 few weeks e27 worth OF glycerine, while
from others he purchased corresponding
| quantities of acids. The detectives, who
| had provided themselves with skeleton
| Keys, made one on two visits to White
| heads shop in his absence, and learned
! quite enough to satisfy themselves of the
nature of his occupation; and it was de-
| termlned that il any box or other vessel
was removed from the house it should be
watched and followed. Accordingly. on
| Wednesday evening n man was seen to
leave the shop with such a box-;l box. ac-
| cording to the evidence Of the shop boy.
which required the united efforts OF the
| cabman, Whitehead, and the stranger to
| lift. He was followed to New Street Sta
ton, and thence q detective accompanied
him to Euston Station, and in the course
of the night he was arrested and his trunk
seized at a private hotel in SOUTHAMPTON
street, Strand. A few hours later White
| head was arrested at the shop in Birming-
ham. His premises were then thoroughly
examined, and though. unfortunately, no
| documents were found. the amount of
| explosive material discovered was such us
| may fairly appal the neighborhOod in which
he has been carrying on his operations
In the back room were ranged eleven great
| jars and several cans of chemicals, and in
the Scullery was 4 "copper" OF vat, con-
tanning eight gallons Of nitro-glycerine,
! with numerous vessels OF acid. As to the
box which was brought to London. the ac-
count of it given by our Woolwich CORE
| spOndent will beread with unusual interest
/ Sent down to the government labratory for
1 examination, it was at once pronounced to
contain mtro-glyceflne, apparently made
I by experienced hands, and therefore pecu-
liarly liable to explode. The amount in
\ the box was not less than two hundred
| pounds, OF more than twelve times as
| much as the dynamite which wrecked the
office OF the Local Government Board. =
The Gallagher arrested in London is de-
| scribed as tall and dark with q mustache,
and looks like military officer" He had
81 200 in American notes. Wilson is "a
tall young fellow, with a fair complexion, =
and was like clerk. He had e140.
Dalton was captured at the American
| reading rooms. He had only been in Eng
land two weeks. The whole gang were
Irish-Americans, and agents of the Society
of Assassination in New York. The
money was sent from this country. and
/ the process of manufacture was taught
| here by persons who have been boasting
of it.
| There is IL Professor Mezzeroff. Mill
| ist, who is the teacher Of the devil 5 chem
| istry to the assassins He was found, the
other day, by an interviewer, and said;
IF England does not let go her murder
GUS grasp from the throat OF Ireland, we
! will leave her mass OF ruins. 4 dozen
men can destroy London in Il night by
chemical fire and dynamite, and we mean
to do it. All the guards they can put on
are as useless as to try and bail out the
| Atlantic. AS things go now we shall con-
| fine ourselves to England; but let the
| English government OF the English people
/ take reprisals which are are talked of and
we will blow up every English man-of-war
and all the merchant marine flying the
British flag and plying between British
ports or on the high seas. We can do this
without breaking international law and
irrespective of where we ourselved are
located. We have studied this subject
and are doing nothing blindly.'
but if yon blow up vessels in American
lports?"
1--WE will not do that. We can set our
instruments so that they will run for three
days. In that time vessel will be on the
high seas and there will be no one left to
tell what happened her."
! The Board of Arbitration at Darlington,
England, have determined to apply the
policy of restriction to the production of
iron plates, angles and bars, as a means of
preventing production, and thus keep
ing in operation the works, which give
employment to so many operatives. The
90repmant was reached nv mutlIal consent