New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-14
DYNAMITE IN WASHINGTON.
REPORT OF An ATTEMPT TO BLOW Up THE STATE
DEPARTMENT-sAMPLE OF SOME OF THE sENsA-
TIoSAL DISPATCHES OF THE DAY.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rKIBuSE.l

DEPARTMENT-SAMPLEO OF SOME VI lhE SbNSh-
TIoNAL DISPATCHES OF THE DAY.
lBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBuSEl
w.smvGToN. April 13-At dawn this morning
suspicious looking person was seen stealing away
from, the southern porch of the State Department
bulding. That part of the building IS occupied oy
,h. chief officers of the Department, and in it are
kent the books and papers relating to the dynamite
6ends who seek a refuge in the United states to
Mot and conspre against the British Government
II has been for some time suspected that detailed
information was being furnished by Minister West
IN the American Government respecting the plans
NJ the nlotters and that he has been urging their
arrost The suspicious looking man before men-
,,ored started toward the rycr at brlsk pace as
soop as he saw that he had been discovered.
he was pursued. but managed to escape Tor
the time being. 1t was noticed thathe ran with a
sIouchnc Irish gait and that his lll-httlng clothes
were plainly of Irish cut and make.
Ioter in the day the detectives who are employ
cd NV Minister West learned that man who an
swers TO the above description arrived III Washing
ton last Monday and walked TO one OF the hotels
where he registered himself as Terence Shaugh-
,essv. Dublin, Ireland" This, 1t is believed, he
did 70 conceal hIs identity and nationality. Later
in the day also an examination of the porch under
which the man had been hiding, revealed that an
a,tempt had been made to blow up the state De
nartment. A black rubber bag about twelve inches
in length and depth was found. 1t is supposed TO
CONTAIN nitrO-gyccrine or some other explosive
compound.
Itbas been carried to the Arsenal, where chemi-
col onalysis of the contents will be made by Gov
eminent officer.
The whole affair was kept as secret as possible
lint the necessity of consulting the British Minister
was imperative. lie was seut for aud the whole
Mot was laid bare before him. When he left the
Department he was observed to be greatly agitated
and TO an enterprisng journalist who accosted him
he WAS unwilling 10 mpart any information beyond
that above detailed. Inquiry at the hotel where
the man stopped who called himself OShaughnessy
discloses the fact that he left without paying his BILL
and that in his room was found an advertisement,
evidently clipped from a Dublin newspaper, giving
the dates OF the sallngs OF steamers from queens
| town. together with an empty whisky hask wrapped
| in fragment OF The Irish H0d these teil-tale
Gle ws leave doubt in the minds Of Secretary Ere
| lnChuysen and Minister West that OShaughnessy
| was not thc mysterious strangers real name. In
| fact they are convinced that lie was an lrshman.
Some OF the State Department officials believe that
Every clev is being followed which can possibly
lead to his arrest and his identification with the
man who left rhe black bag under the porch OF the
State Department. 1t may be that the river VIII DC
dragged in order TO discover whether with true
| Irish cunning he has hidden himself III the waters
of the Potomac. =, =.
Tho foregoing statement labors under the dis
advantageOf beng entirely untounded IN TACT put
n s ote as true as the sensational dispatches tina
| have been sent out from Washington on thls suo-
| iect for some weeks past.
WALSH TO MAKE HIS HOME IN AMERICA.
John Walsh spent yesterday in paying visits
TO his friends and making the acquaintance of the leading