New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-20
TUE nYyIyJTE REVELATIONS.

An informer has readily been found among
the dynamite conspiraturs. This is Norman
who called himself Ormund when he was ar
rested in London, but whose real name is
Lynch. He now testlfies in Bow Street that in
October last he became a member OF a secret
society formed in New-YOrk for the purpose of
freeing Ireland by force. This society as he
describes it bears a close resemblance to the ID-
vincibles, or Assassination Club, with which
Farrell, Kavanagh and Carey were connected
in Dublin. The members were not known ~
name but by mum Der, and special work was as
signed to them. each being told what he would
have to do, but being left in ignorance as to the
details intrusted to other subOrdinates and the
general purposes of the leaders. There were
other associated clubs. and the managers were
known as district members-another point of
resemblance to the Inyincibles. Lynch was
ordered to report to Dr. Thomas Gallagher at
Greenpont and was supplied by him with $50
to pay his travelling expenses to London.
fortnight afterward he met Gallagher in Eng
land, was seut to Whitehead's factory in Bir-
minghanl, and on returning TO London with
nitro glycerine in rubber bags was arrested by
the police. Gallagher and Whitehead were the
only prisoners in the dock whom he had ever
SEEM hut he mad inferred from their talk that
great destruction of property was to he wrought
and that Rosa was in the scheme, being re-
ferred to Familiarity to as the old man."
Like Farrell, the first informer, who revealed
the secrets of the Invncibes, Lynch had only
a subordinate part IN the conspiracy, and was
never admitted into the inner circle. For a
broader knowledge of the operations Of these
10 eli al
authorities will have to look elsewhere. Prob
ably either Gallagher or Whitehead would be
willing to enact the part of James Carey IN
new series of revelations. To plot and to be-
tray seem to be cognate instincts of the Irish
"patriotn of this new dispensaton.
This is an Informer's tale, and is tainted with
suspicion on that account. but there is reason to
believe that it Is true in all its details. Gala
ghers identity and residence were disclosed by
such men as Dewey and Bresin as soon rs tho
arrests were made in London and Birmingham,
and the swarm of dynamite braggarts with
which this city is Infested betokened It's con-
seriousness of its own powers of mischief and
capacity for wickedness in buzz of exutation.
The leaders were ready fortnight ago to boast
Of their intimacy with Gallagher and his trained
assistants in the science of dynamite. They are
more reticent now. even Rosa being stripped
of his bravado and willing for once 10 have
somebody else have the glory of the campaign.
For tie informer, besides referring vaguely TO
him as the central figure of the plot, has ex-
plicitly described the headquarters of the So
ciety in the Bowery; and it has already been
ascartaned that the hall has been a meeting
place for several Irish societies, including one
-
to deliberate in secret This is evidence which
serves not only TO cOrfobOrate the nf0rmers
testimony, hut To establish the responsibility
for the recent diabolical plots against property
and life in England. These plots were formed
in New \ ork the money was raised here the
agents were selected and sent out to do their
work OF destruction, and they were not Irish
refugees, but Americans.
These are facts which the United States Gov
eminent will have to face. The prisoners in
the Bow Street dock, whether Americans by
birth or adopted citizens or political refugees,
will be dealt with and punished under the Eng
lsh statutes. With their fate this Government
has no concern. But can American officials
shirk the obligation 70 suppress these dynamite
associations which have been plotting the de-
struction of English cities If there be no law
under which such offences can be punished, is it
hot time that measures should be taken either
by the local, State or National authorities, by
which the responsibility for crimes of such
magnitude can be in some measure determined
and regulated Is not the time approaching
when the Governments Of ChrstendOm will be
forced for mutual protection to discriminate
between political offences and dynamite crime