The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26

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arge Colts revolver and fired twice. one
bullet hitting the ruffian in the breast. He
ran short distance from the house and lall
lead. The thiefs rame was Smith. ne
was 4 member of . hard gang that came
hers with the advent of the Northern Paci-
ic.
ANOTHER IRISH INFORMER.
Lynch, Alias Norman, Turns InNbrm.
er Against His Fellow Dynamite
Prisoners In London.
A special dated London, April 10, says:
Norman, Dalton. Wilson. DR.. Gallagher,
CuItin, Ansburgh and Whitehead, the eight
arrested on charge of being concerned in the
dynamite conspiracy. were again brought up
in the Bow street police court this morning.
1t was noticed as significant fact that Nor
man was conveyed to the court room BY
detective separately from the other prison
ers. Whitehead who was brought here
from Birmingham for trial, protested
against handouts. He declared the en-
trance to the court room was the "Gate
in the court room, it Was an.
nounced that Norman had
turned}iniormer. The rest Of the prisoners,
including Bernard Gallagher and White
bead, were formerly charged with treason
and felony. Poland, in opening the case
for the crown, said he had q quantity of
Ire sh evidence against the prisoners which
would be furnished at the proper time.
Norman testified that:
His real name was William Joeeph
Lynch, born OF IRISH parents in the state of
Ia In
cosch builders in Brooklyn. A shop
mate, Daniel O'Connor, induced him 10
Join secret society, q branch Fsnian organ
ization, divisions Of which were called Elm
erald clubs. OConnor took him to Odd
Fellows hail. New York, and in the ante
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
ODonovan Rosa personally but heard he
had been to the tclub room. He was al
ways spoken of there as the "Old 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 Is. The password for admis-
sion to the meetings was "Providence."
There were ether associated clubs in New
York: The Sarsfield, Thirty Second street,
over Roe 4 Thomas Davis military hall;
the Emmett, Eighth avenue, and Davitt aud
Tom Moore clubs. The district members
were not known to each other. When a
member was wanted to go on mission
the president read out his number and told
him to send the president his address.
he (Lynch) was sent to DR.. Thomas CAL
lagher, who lives on Manhattan avenue at
Green Point. L. I. Gallagher told him he
was to go to London; he would know what
for when he got there. Gallagher gave him
$50 and tod him to take steerage passage
ny the steamer Spain, under the name Of
Norman. Gallagher gave him 800 more
and told him to 60 to London and inquire
Ut the American exchange for q letter ad-
dressed to him: Lynch did not want to go
as he had relatives to support but finally
went. Gallagher gave him q small box.
He examined this on the steamer and find
ing it contained a spring which worked by
pressure became alarmed and threw it into
the sea. Lynch reached London March q,
and met Gallagher in London the 9th or
of the ws xa5sd ex5 past the
his asking Gallagher if j." that's what we are
going to do" the latter answered "yes.'.
Gallagher viewed the houses of parliament
and said, "They will make a great crash
when they come down." At this point
Gallagher shouted out from the dock: tYou
are an infamous iar!' Lynch replied with
q statement Of Gallagher as to what destruc-
ton was to be wrought Gallagher and the
witness passed Scotland yards and Gala
CHER said THAT is the headq quarters of de-
tectives, and that will come down too"
hn o.
Cross hotel, and gave the witness Fl, saving.
Don't run short, the old man will pro:
vide for u.s." Lynch went to Birmingham
to see to Whitehead's request for some ma
terial. Gallagher gave him money to buy
D presentab!e trunk in which to put the
stuff lie was to get from Whitehead.
Whitehead put hi::: in the way of get
ting India rubber bags Lynch con-
tirmed all the evidence submitted at the
hearing last Thursday as to Gallagher hav.
ing called for him as Fletcher. He ssid
when Whitehead was loading the ritro gly-
cerine into the rubber bags he told Lynch
that fifty pounds had been taken away that
Whitehead also said he would
soon know what the liquid was White
head here shouted, "You lie! YOU traitor!"
Lynch further testified that Gallagher met
him when he returned to London from Bur-
mingham with ni,ro-glycerine. He had
never seen any OF the persons before except
Gallagher and Whitehead. Lynch identified
q boy he SAW with Whitehead in the factory
Of the latter in Birmingham. The witness
had never seen any of the persons before
except Gallagher and Whitehead. Both
spoke of sending another man to London,
but did not mention any name
The witness spoke in a weak and indis-
tinct voice, ana at one time appeared about
to faint. Attic conclusion of the testimony,
and while depositi ons were being read, he
did faint, and was removed from the court
room: Bernhard Gallagher states that he is
= native Of Scotland, and returned from
America to work as an iron molder. His
brother, DR.. Gallagher, paid his passage.
Bernard is ignorant of the DOCTORS business
Bernard says he was not Fenian or men,
Der Of any secret society. He declares he
was in Sing Sing, N. Y, at the time OF the
explosion in Glasgow.
The London Times SAYS:
II Lynch's evidence can be satisfactorily
proved, aud it can be shown that O Dono-
van Rosa furnished the large sum of
money found on DR.. Gallagher, it will We .
question for consideration whether ODono-
van Rosa cannot, by some sort of interna-
tional procedure, be made amendable to
the laws of the empire. The Irish conspira-
tors must be considered criminals and not
beligerents..