Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-27
Further Details of the Explosions
in the Parliament Buildings
and London Tower.
An Arrest Made Which it is RumoreG
Will Throw Some Light on the
Mystery.

noou stlII continues. A rumor was current
last evening and this morning that Cunning
ham, who was arrested at the Tower, would
have hearing today at the Thames Police
Court in Arbour street. The report caused
the court and streets in the vicinity TO be
crowded with excited citizens, and extra po-
lice had to be put on duty TO keep order
The feeling against Cunningham is very
bitter and if the crowd once get their hands
on him there is no doubt he would be lynched
Shortly after noon it was learned that another
man had been arrested in connection with the
explosion, and that he and Cunningham
would be arrsigned together in the Bow street
police court. The people in the vicinity of
the Thames police court then left in the di-
rection of the Bow street police court. The
letter received by the police officials yester-
day is now believed TO be very important
document. In addition to other valuable in
formation it states that st. PauPs Cathedral
and the office of the Daily Telegraph are
among the dynamiters threaten to blow up
Westminster hall and the Tower are closed
today TO every one except the government OF
ticals who are engaged in inspecting the
structure. Many persons carrying parcels in
the streets today have been stopped by the
police, and the parcels examined before thev
were permitted to pass on. The approaches
to all public buildings are being rigdly
guarded. Nobody is allowed to enter without
submitting to the closest scrutiny. The Tower
and Parliament Houses are surrounded with
sentinels and extra policemen. Immense
crowds of people continue to be attracted to
the vicinity of the Tower and Westminster.
The two policemen, Cox and Cole, who
were injured by the explosion in West
minister hall, are making favorable progress
and hopes are entertained of their recovery
No further arrests had been made up to 80
o'clock today. The Irish newspapers de-
nounce the outrage in vigorous terms. The
,Freeman's journal SAYS: "Only one feeling
prevails throughout Ireland regarding these
tiendish crimes, and that is a deep and ear
nest sympathy with those who were injured
no less than the earnest wish that the diabol-
ical authors may be brought to justice. Any
man with touch of human feeling must re-
gret the escape of the miscreants."
Cunningham was conveyed to Bow street
police station today by a strong guard Of po-
lice. He was there charged on suspicion of
complicacy in the explosion at the Tower of
London. He smilingly surveyed the court
and crowd which had congregated without to
get glimpse of the alleged dynamiter. In
spector Alkaline deposed that he examined
the prisoner at the Tower, and that he (the
prisoner) gave conflicting testimony and con
Trajectory answers to questions propounded.
The suspicious circumstances surrounding
the prisoner were detailed. and he was r.
manded until Feb, Sd His examination
tended to convince the police that in arrest
ing him they had secured a person who at
least had guilty knowledge of Saturdays
crimes. 1t was proved that Cungingham was
a native of Cork; that he had lived at least
five years in the United States, and that he
arrived in England during last autumn, and
came directly from New York His pre-
ense that he was an Englishman was well
carried out for few hours after his arrest,
his appearance favoring it, and his drawing
stammering being peculiarly COokneyish, but
in his excitement, under the close cross-ex-
animation of the court, he forgot himself for
a moment. and spoke as rapidly and distinctly
as an elocutionist. and clearly demonstrated
that his CoOkneyism was clever piece of
dis, s,imilstion. 1t was shawn that the prs-
oner had been koown in White Chapel a.
Dalton. His statements that he had lived in
St. Paul were entirely disproved. The court
considered the case made out against Gun
ningham sufficiently strong to warrant his
committal and he was remanded for week
to await the further examination. During
the proceedings Cunningham paid the closest
attention to everything going on within the
court room. He frequently was made very
nervous by statements of the police,
and at such times would lean forward
and bite his under lip, at the same time
glancing furiously about the room. The
official estimates made by the government in
spectOrs places the amount of pecuniary dam
ages wrought by the explosions in West
minister hall, the House of Common. and the
Tower at $4,000.
Notice has been issued by the police au-
thorities, asking ali who were visitors TO the
Parliament building on Saturday to give the
police any possible information regarding the
man and woman who were seen in the build
ing that afternoon under suspicious circum-
stances. The woman ia believed to have car
ried the dynamite under her cloak Cum
ningham is the only man now in custody. 1t
is now known that the internal machines
used to cause the disaster were ignited bv
sulphuric acid which worked through the
cotton wool and ate away the cap beneath
The process occupied 80 minutes, and this
allowed the conspirators to escape before the
explosion took place. The Queen has sum
moned the controller of the royal household
to Osborne house, the Queens residence on
the Isle of Wright, to describe to her the ma
ture and extent of Saturdays disasters in
London. In the council chamber of the
Tower of London, the whole of the cases made
of plate glass a quarter of an inch thick, and
containing armor, were shattered by the force
of the explosion The wall against which
the dy namite was placed is sixteen feet thick
notwithstanding which the plastering on the
opposite side of the wall for a radius of
several feet. was shaken to the floor.
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 appa-
ratus or fuse have been discovered in the
Tower or Parliament buildings. This fact
strengthens the opinion that no internal ma
chine was used to effect the explosions. but
that the agent employed was dynamite in
some simple form.
A movement is 90 foot to raise a fund by
popular subscriptions, to reward Constable
Cole for his plucky effort to avert the disas-
ter. The man arrested today on suspicion of
having been concerned in the outrages is
still in custody. Tho police refuse all infor-
nation as to his name or their reasons for
believing him guilty.
Michael Davitt was interviewed TODAY in
regard to the dynamite outrages of Saturday.
He said that the dynamite operators had few