The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-21

fed that his real name was William Joseph
Lynch, and that be was born Of Irish parents
in the State OF New York. He worked in
October last at a coachbnilders In Brooklyn.
At that time he joined secret society in New
York, the object of which was TO free ireland
by force. The members went by numbers.
The hall in which he was sworn in
was on the corner OF Second street
and the Bowery. The password for adj
mission TO the meetings IN New York was
providence" There were other associated
clubs in New York, such as the Sarsiield,
whose rooms we're in Thirty-second street, the
Owen Roe and the Thomas Davis, which met
in Military Hall, the Emmet. located on
Eighth avenue, and the Davitt and Tom
Moore clubs OF the meeting places of which he
was ignorant. The managers OF the
clubs were known as district members
They were not known to each other by name.
Members were selected TO 90 on missions. He
Lynch) was sent to DIR. Thomas Gallagher,
who lived on Manhattan avenue, Green Point,
l.. 1. Gallagher told him he was TO 60 to Lon
don. He would know what for when he got
there. Gallagher gave him $50 and told him
to take steerage passage by the steamer Spain
under the name Of Norman. Gallagher gave
him 500 more and told him TO 60 to London
aud inquire at the American Exchange for a
letter addressed to him Lynch did not want
to 20, as he had relatives to support, but finally
went. Gallagher gave him small box. He
examined this ON the steamer, and finding IL
contained spring, which worked by pressure,
he became alarmed aud threw il into the sea.
Lynch reached London on March y. He met
Gallagher In London the 9th or 28th. They
walked past the scene of the Westminster ex-
plosion. On his asking Gallagher IL ''that's
what We are going TO do?" the latter ans
wered. ''Yes." Gallagher viewed the houses
of Parliament, and said, They will make
great crash when they come down."
AT this point Gallagher shouted out from
fhe dock ssYou infamous liarHl
Lynch deposed 10 further statements OF Gal
lagher as 20 what destruction was TO be
wrought. He said he inferred from the talk
OF his co-conspirators that O'Donovan Rosa
was IN the scheme. Rosa was referred TO as
"the old man. Lynch also testified that he
went TO Birmingham to see Whitehead, at
Galiagher's request, for soma material Gal
lagher gave him money to buy presentahle
trunk in which TO put the stun he was to get
from Whitehead. Whitehead put him In tue
way of aas.Ina the inain rubber UAgs. Lynch
confirmed ali the evidence submitted at the
hearing last Thursday as 10 Gallagher having
called for him az Fletcher. He said that when
Whitehead was loading the pitroglycerine into
the rubber bags he told Lynch that 80 pounds
had been taken away that morning. White
head also told him he would soon know what
the liquid was.
[w6itehead here shouted, "You lie. you
traitor.
Lvneh further testified that Gallagher met
him when he returned TO London from Bir-
minghsm with the nitro-glycerine. He had
never seen any OF the persons before except
Gallagher and Whitehead,
Lynch tainted while his deposition was being
read over, and had to be removed from the
courtroom.
The examination was adjourned until to-
morrow
Bernard Gallagher has made statement to
the effect that he is native of Scotland, and
returned there from America 10 work as an
n. Ill
iron-poulder. his brother, Dr. Gallagher,
paid bis passage, but he was ignorant OF the
doctors business. Bernard says he is not
Fenian or a member of any secret society He
declares that he wasin Sing Sing, n. Y, at
the time the explosion in Glasgow, width caus-
ing which he Is charged, occurred.
The Times editorially that II Lynohs evil
dence can be satisfactorily proved, and it can
be shown that 0'Donovan Rosa furnished the
large sum OF money found on Bernard Gala
CHER, IL will be question for consideration
whether O'Donovan Rossa cannot, by some
sort OF international procedure, be made amen
tors, the Times says, must be considered cFimi-
nails end not belligerents
LONDON, April 90
The men arrested for connection with the
dynamite conspiracy were again arrraigned this
morning for further hearing. A boy employed
by Whitehead at Birmingham and who was
Yesterday identified by the French informer
was placed in the witness box. Herecognized
Thomas Gallagher (Dr. Gallagher,1 as the man
who visited Whitehead The boy testified
that Gallagher when he visited Whitehead
gave the name Of Fletcher. When he called
TO see Whitehead, the latter sent him (the boy)
on an errand and told him that he need not
When Gallagher made Whitehead visit he
said he had come for ''oil" that "Fletcher"
had ordered. Wilson was conducted by White
head to an inner room. The next day Lynch
"a. - II k.S, T.
box The boy was unable to swear as TO the
identity OF Wilson, He was positive as to Gal
lagher, who he said called several times.
A waiter employed at the Mddleland Hotel
at Birmingham was next called TO the stand
He positively identified Wilson as the man
who had been guest at the hotel. He also
had large box with him.
A Birmingham cabman swore he drove
Wilson from the Middleland Hotel 10 the
house where Whitehead was located
A detective OF Birmingham confirmed tho
testimony given by other witnesses as to the
time OF Wilson's arrival at Whiteheads. The
cabman and other witnesses confirmed the ac-
count given by Lynch Of his movements In
Birmingham.
The prisoners were remanded until Thurs
day.
NEw YoRK, April 2o-o'Donoyan Rosa
and other Irishmen here claim not TO know
Lynch or Gallagher. One prominent Irish
man says the party who went 10 Ireland
with Gallagher has not yet been arrested. The
residence Of Gallagher at Greenpoint is partly
unoccupied, but II any one attempts to enter,
man who patrols the vicinity informs the in
quirer that the house Is empty. The house
appears to be guarded night and day.
Thomas brennan, Secretary OF the Irish Ma
tional League, has arrived here via Palermo.
He does not favor the dynamite policy. Pat
rick Eagan states that the Land League will
meet next Wednesday in Philadelphia, ad-
ta1r Qt inn "a. hat l... 4 1np
amalgamate with new organization, which
will include every Irish society In America, to
act in harmony with the National League OF
Ireland. The programme OF the new organi-
zaton will be the obtaining OF self-govornment
for Ireland. Mr.. Eagan says the dynamite
policy will not bo discussed at the meetings
next week
Mr.. Merritt, q coach manufacturer OF Brook
lyn states that man named Lynch was in his
employ last year. His family live at Maspeth,
Il. i.
Sir John Ross writes 10 the Times ureing
that England invite all civilized nations 10
unite In securing the enactment OF laws for
the extr tradition of any person who shall COM
nit atrocities under the veil Of political mo-
tive.
The Pail Mali Gazette says evidence that
dynamite plots now under investigation were
hstched in New York Is as clear as the proof
the foreign police possessed 20 years ago that
Mazzinps plots against Italy were Matched in
England and says the extradition OF Rossa
from the United States is about as likely az
Mazzinfs was from England.
Cork, April 20.- Featberstone, O'Herlihy,
Morgan aud Carmody charged with complete
ty In the dynamite conspiracy, were arraigned
here today. The evidence disclosed that
Featherstone had on several occasions visited
chemists In Glasgow; that he had asked ques-
tions concerning the strength and density of
certainlacids and that shortly afterwards an or
deTlsigned "D'Horlihv ,waa, ,renaived from Cork
for quantity Of nitric acid graded at 92 de-
grees.
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