Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-20
NORMAN TURNS INFORMER
NEW YORK HONEY
WITH SECRET SOCIETIES.


The ApprOver's Right Name Lynch and
the American Metropolis His Home
/ Gallagher and His Companions De.
nOunce the Witness from the Dock
The Alleged Plots Hatched Here.
/ LONDON, April 19.-NOrman, Dalton.
( Wilson, DIR. Gallagher, Bernard Gala.
( CHER, Curtin, Ansburghe and Whitehead
/ the eight men arrested on charges of being
/ concerned in the dynamite conspiracy,
were again brought up in the Bow Street
Police Court this morning. Itwas noticed
as a significant fact that Norman was
conveyed to the court room by a detective
separated from the other prisoners.
w Nhltehead, who was brought here from
Birmingham for trial, protested against
handouts being placed upon his wrists
/ lie declared that the entrances to the
court room were gates of hell. On the
] prisoners being arraigned in court it was
announced that Norman had turned in.
former. The rest of the prisoners. i'm.
I Guiding Bernard, Gallagher and White.
mead, were formally charged with treason
and felony.
Mr.. Pollard, in opening the case for the
/ crown, said that he had quantity OF
fresh evidence against the prisoners.
| which would be furnished at the nroneT
time. ~
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 sWOre that he worked in Octo-
Der last at a coach builders i'm BROOKLYN
Al that time he joined secret society
fl IN New ork, the object of which was to
iree ireland by force. The members went
by numbers. The hall in which he was
sworn in was situated on the corner of
second street and the Bowery. There
were other associated clubs. The mana
gers OF the clubs were known as dis
trlct members. They were known TO
each other by name. The
members were selected to 90 on missions.
lie Lynch was sent to DIR. ThOs. Gala
gher, who lived on Manhattan avenue.
Greeh Polnt. Long Island, opposite New
ork. Gallagher told him that he was to
go to London. He would know what for
when he got there. Gallagher gave him
S0Oand told him to take steerage passage
on the spain under the name of Nor
man. Gallagher gave him 800 more and
told him to go to London and inOuire
at the American Exchange for letter
addressed to him. Lynch did not want
to go as he had relatives to support, but
SIlldIl
box. He examined this on the
steamer, and finding that it contained
a spring which worked by pressure he be-
came alarmed and threw it into the sea.
He arrived in London on the 22d of March,
His hrst act was to take the letter he had
written TO Gallagher to Bowles' EX-
change, TO inform the latter of his arrival
and where he could be found. He said
that Gallagher, on the 9th or 2Sth of
March, walked with him past the scene of
the recent explosion in the government
Oflces at estminster. He asked: sIs
that what we are going to do - Gala
CHER replied "Yes; and il won't be echild's
play, either" They passed half way over
Westminster Bridge, when Gallagher.
who had been viewing the Houses of Par
Lament, remarked: '"rhey will make a
great crash when they come down."
Gallagher here jumped to his feet and
shouted: ''YOu infamous liar"I
The witness continued, that returning
they passed Scotland Yard, and Gala
CHER said: ''That is the Headquarters Of
the detectives. 1t will come down. too"
Gallagher said he was staying at the
Charing Cross Hotel, and gave the wit
ness g., saying: "DOn't run short. The
old man Will provide for us" On April
2d Gallagher told the witness that he
wanted him to 90 to LedsOm street, Bir-
mingham, and inquire for Whitehead and
tell him that he Lynch had been sent
for material. He had never heard of
Whitehead before. He went to Bir-
mlngham that morning. Before
going Gallagher gave him Ej
with which to buy a respectable 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 wit
ness box and identified by Lynch. Lynch
said Whitehead put him in the way of
procuring India rubber bags in which to
carry nitro glycerine. The witness con
firmed all the evidence given at the hear
ing last Thursday as to Gallagher having
called for him under the name of Fletcher.
The witness said that when Whitehead
was loading nitrO-glycerine into rubber
bags he told him that a man had that
same morning taken sixty pounds of the
liquid. He asked Whitehead what the
liquid was, and was informed that he
would soon know.
Whitehead here shouted from the dock.
''G GOu lie, you traitOr,'
The witness said that Gallagher met
him in London when he returned from
Birmingham with the nitrO-glycerine. He
had never seen any of the prisoners before
except Gallagher and Whitehead. Both
of those men had spoken of sending an
other man to London, but they did not
mention any name. The examination was
spoke in a weak and indistinct voice. and
at one point of his evidence he appeared
as if about to faint. At the conclusion of
his testimony, while the deposition was
being read, he did faint, and had to be re-
moved from the court room. In the course
of his testimony concerning his New York
club experience, Lynch said that he did
not know ODOnOYan R0ssa personally,
but heard that he had been to the club
room. He was always spoken of there as
the sold man."
Bernard Gallagher has made a state
ment to the effect that he is a native Of
Scotland and returned there from America
to work as an iron mOulder. His brother
DR.. Gallagher, paid his passage, but he
was ignorant of the doctors business.
Bernard says that he is not a Fenian or
member of any secret society. He de-
clares that he was in Sing Sing, n. Y, at
the time the explosion occurred in Glas-
Cow, with the causing of which he is
charged.
A box containing powder was found to-
day in the rear of the Times office. A
train had been laid for the purpose, it is
supposed, of getting an explosion at
convenient moment. 1t was at first re-
ported that the fuse was attached to box,
and that il was burning when the dis
cOverv was made.
In the House of Commons this afternoon
Sir William HarcOurt, Home Secretary,
asked Sir Herbert Maxwell not to put his
question as to whether Peter lyman
("Number One") was in New York, and
whether his eXtradition would be de-
manded, as it might be preiudicial to the
public interests.