The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-04-27


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man was conveyed TO the court room by )
detective separately nom the other prison.
ers. Whitehead who was brought here
against handcuGk he declared the en-.
trance TO- the court room was the .sGatei
( of he'll. On the prisoners being arraigned
| In the court room. it Wa 4 an.
snounoed that n Norman s.5 had
! turnedli nformer. Tha rest Of the prisoners,
including Bernard Gallagher and White.
bead, were formerly charged with treason,
and felony. Poland, In opening the case
for the GROWN, said he had quantity Of
AS0A 0vAU0l1C0 6K0lUHt tu0 OSlHO0oIH WOlCQ
{ would be furnished at the proper time.
Norman testified that: :, 4 As 81.
His real name Was William Joseph
Lynch, born OF Irish parents in the ate Of
New York. He worked In October last At
q coach builders in BROOKLYN. R shop
mate, Daniel o. Connor, induced him 10
join . seoretsociety, branch Fenian organ
iEation, divisions Of which were called En-
erald clubs. O'Connor took him to Odd
Nnvv N- hall - A :
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 name 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 Of there as the aoid man. ~
Knew, besides o. Conror, two members of
the club both named Sullivan. The number
of the treasurer of the club was 49, and OF
the secretary 49,. The password for admis-
sion to the meetings was "Providence.n
There were ether associated clubs in New
York: The Sars6eld, Thirty Second street,
over Roe q Thomas Davis military hall;
the Emmett, Eighth avenue, and Davitt aud
AOAAA AiAOOAO VAOpSs L uc ulStIkCL M0uUelS
were not known to each other. When
member was wanted to go on mission
the president read Que 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 hun he
was to go to London; be would know what
for when he got, there. Gallagher gave him
$50 and told him to take steerage passage
hvy fH<a ANoS
Norman. Gallagher gave him 500 more
and told him to go to London and inquire
at the American exchange for q letter adj
dressed to him: Lynch did not want to go
as he bad relatives to support, but finally
went. Gallagher gave him small box.
He examined this on the steamer and find
ing 1t contained spring which worked by
pressure became alarmed and threw it into
the sea. Lynch reached London March O.,
ana aa. met Gallagher in London the eth or
18th. The walked past the
scene Of the Westminster explosion. On
MS asking Gallagher If that's what we are
gong 70 40" the latter answered "yes.n
Gallagher viewed the houses of parliament
and said, "They will make great crash
when they come down." At this point
Gallagher shouted out rom the dock: "You
are an infamous liarl" Lynch replied with
g statement OF Gallagher as to what destruc-
ton was to be wrought Gallagher and the
witness passed Scotland yards and Gala
gher SAID "Inat IS the headquarters of de-
tectives, and that will come down too"
gallagher SAID ne was staying at Charing
Gross hotel, and gave the witness 81, saying,
Don't run short, the old man will pro.
vide for u.s." LyHch went to Birmingham
TO see TO Whltehead's request for some ms
terial Gallagher gave him money to buy
. prssentabse lrunk IN which to put the
stn! lie was 70 get nom whitehead.
" Wn1teneaa put n' IN the way OF get
ting Indla rubber bags: Lynch con-
tirmed all the evidence submitted at the
hearing last Thursday as to Gallagher hav.
ing called tor aim as Fletcher. He said
when Whltehead was loading the Iltro-gly-
cerlne into the rubber bags he told Lynch
that nifty 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 1urther tesnhed that Gallagher met
MN when ne returned to London from Bur-
mingham with nitro-glycerine. He had
a boy he saw with Whitehead in the factory
OF the latter in birmingham. The witness
eacent ' G. i and Wbitebead s of P',h
spoke of sending another man to London,
but did not mention any name.
me witness spoke IN = weak and indis.
~ fs;nt thu ns ~ U1y aoo
and while depositi pms were being read, he
did faint, and was removed from the court
room: Bernhard Gallagher states that he is