The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-27
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out for suspicious persons who may have taken
part In the London outrages Two of them are
in close consultation with French detectives.
The keys found in possession of prisoner
Cunningham, which exactly fitted in the
door of the residence in Whitechapel.
claimed oy him as his place of abode. are also
the keys which fitted into the lock of the suspi-
cious bag and box. Cunningham is the only
suspect now in custody 1t is now known that
the infernal machines used to cause the disasters
were ignited by sulphuric acid, which worked
through the cotton and wool and ate away the
cap beneath. This process occupied twenty min
utes time, and thus allowed the coIspirators to
escape before the explosion took place.
An official notice is posted at the entrance to
the Law Courts empowering the police to search
any bag or parcel before the bearer thereof shall
be allowed to enter.
The Queen has summoned the Controller of
the Royal Household to Osborn House, the
Queens residence on the Isle of Wight, to de-
scribe the nature and extent of Saturdays disas-
ters in London. All the royal apartments at
Windsor Castle have been ordered closed to all
visitors This step was taken by her Majesty
in consequence of the extraordinary
precautionary measures generally advised
by the ministry. The Queen has conducted
herself so stoicaly throughout all previous
dynamite panics that her present action attracts
much attention.
In the council chamber Of the Tower of Lon
don whole cases made of plate-glass a quarter OF
tered by the force of the explosion. The wall
against which the dynamite was placed is sixteen
feet thick, notwithstanding which the piastering
on the opposite side of the wall for radius of
several feet was shaken to the foor leaving
the stonework bare. Several good photographs
or this effect of the explosion have been secured
An order has been issued from the Home
Ofice forbidding admission of visitors to Wind
sor Castle 1t has hitherto been an easy matter
for any reputable person to gssiA entrance to the
Castle by giving his name aIfd address to the
officer in charge of the sentinels at the gate. and
the state apartments have usually beep thronged
by tourists from all countries during She three
days in each week upon which yisit0Ts have
been admitted.
CONSTABLE COLES STATEMENT.
Constable Cole, who was terribly injuredNin
his attempt to prevent the explosion in West
minister Hall, made an important statement thiSA
afternoon. He said that when he picked up the
bundle on the steps leading to the crypt, he no.
ticed it was very heavy in proportion to its sze
He determined to carry it outside the building
because he saw smoke issuing from the bundle,
and he believed it to be some sort
of an Internal machine. Just as he
reached the top of the stairway, he saw an oily
substance oozing from the bottom of the bundle
This stuff burned his hands and compelled him
to drop the bundle. He has no recollection OF
This statement by Constable Cole confirms the
theory entertained by the police that chemical
fuse was arranged in such a way that it would
burn through the cotton plug inserted between
the outside and the Illuminating substance.
movement is on foot to raise fund by popular
subscriptions to reward Constable Cole for his
pucky effort to avert the disaster
AN ALLEGED IMPORTANT REVELATION.
1t is reported that Cunningham has made an
important revelation, in consequence of which
all trains leaving London for seaport towns are
accompanied by detectives. Not the slightest
trace of any mechanical apparatus or of fuse
ment buildings. This fact strengthens the opin-
ion that no Internal machine was
used to effect the explosions but
that the agency employed Was dynamite in some
simple form, packages containing FIVE or six
pounds of the explosive being deposited in the
Tower and in the Parliament buildings.
The yentilator of the chamber of the House OF
Commons is a yawning chasm, into which, at
the moment of the explosion, poured many tons
of brick work masonry and splintered timber.
The electric lighting Office of the House Of Com
mons and the cables were destroyed and
the apparatSs was rendered unfit for
use. Closer inspection shows the ruin
postofice in the lobby was destroyed, and several
huge blocks of stone, fourteen inches thick and
weighing half ton, were upheaved. The maga-
zine at Hyde Park is patrolled by police
Great excitement prevails throughout the
province of Ulster and the loyal classes attribute
the activity among the dynamiters to the weak
action of the government against the conspira-
tors. Meetings are called TO urge the govern
ment to enact more rigorous laws against Ameri-
can and other revolutionary agentsin in England.
1t was reported in the city this evening that
one of the great English railway corporations
had decided to discharge from its employ, i'm
all persons of Irish birth.