The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-03

Mr. Poland said. was according to statements of
experts, used for exploding. by conclusion. dyn-
amite or gun-cotton only. The mixture occupied
only half the space in the detonator, but even
this small quantity, If exploded in the hand.
said the solicitor, would shatter the fingers, and
II exploded IN a pocket would kill the person.
line deIonator. when found, was handled very
carefully by the police. They dared not even
pinch it. because small pin might be thus
pressed and the thing would speak for itself.
would it not, Mr.. Inspectors" turning to the in
spector
Yes. indeed, replied the latter official He
it was who found the detonator concealed in the
sock found in the pocket of garment belonging
TO the prisoner. in which was also found pocket
diary with two leaves torn out.
In conclusion. Mr.. Poland said that Cunning
ham was charged under the explosives act with
having caused the Tower explosion; if his guilt
should be established, he was liable to imprson-
ment for life. with hard labor; and if he should
be fonnd guilty of only having explosives in his
possession, with intent to use them Illegally, he
was liable to twenty years. imprisonment with
hard labor; and he was liable to fourteen years,
imprisonment at hard labor if he should be con-
vcted of having dynamite in his possession
under circumstances warranting reasonable
belief that he intended TO use it for illegal pur-
poses. The crown. if it could prove beyond all
doubt that Cunningham was the criminal who
actually caused the explosion in tbs Tower, had
right to have the charge as made against the
prisoner withdrawn and have him tried instead
for high treason, fer attempting to destroy and
for destroying the Queens arsenal and military
stores
The solicitor ended his address by stating that
he hoped to be able, upon some future occasion,
to produce evidence to show that one OF ehe
worst efforts of the panic produced by the regent
Outrages was that it caused so many employers
TO play right into the hands of the dynamitefs;
some firms in London, others in
Leeds and others again in Sheffield
were diminishing all their Irish employees. The
very fact that detectives were employed to watch
establishments wherein a large number of persons
,ofiIrish birth employed proved so irritating
to the owners of the concerns subjected to such
disagreeable espienagel that, to escape from it.
they naturally resorted to the only means OF re-
lief at their ccmmand-wholesale discharge of
their Irish employees. One of the largest pub
fishing houses in London, on Saturday last, dis
missed everybody of Irish birth.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Polands ad-
dress, Dr. Dupre, adviser of the govern
ment on chemical subjects, took the witness
stand He testified that he had examined the
detonator found in -Cunningham's baggage. 1t
was copper tube stamped with an eagle, and
containing III grains Of mixture composed of
chloride of potassium and illuminate of mercury.
A fuse had apparently been fixed to the detona
tor, as hole in the tube indicated some such at
tachment.
AT the request of the prosecution Cunningham
was remanded for week.
Previous to the remanding of the prison
err in answer to request for the privi-
lege of an interview with Cunningham, made by
Ouiiliam, one of the counsel for the defense,
Judge Ingham replied that nobody would be
allowed to see or converse with the prisoner
without special permit from Sir William Yer
non-Harcourt Home Secretary By the time
the examination was concluded the crowd that
pressed around the building numbered many
thousands. and the adjoining housetops and
every window in the neghhorhood were crowded
with people curious to catch glimpse of Gun
nineham. During the progress of the van which
conveyed the prisoner back to Clerkenwell
prison. the streets along the route were lined
with files of special police and fairly swarmed
with detectives.
Few persons were admitted to the court dur
ing the examination. Before commencement of
regular proceedings a number of witnesses
sembled in court for the purpose of identifying
the prisoner a man who had been reported to
The police az being engaged in suspicious move
ments just before the explosion Cunningham
was placed in small crowd, but three Of the
witnesses. one of whom was woman. the other
two being constables. had no difficulty in sim
Cling him out as the man of whom they had
given information. The cabman VINO had given the
police information about the transfer of the
brown trunk of American manufacture from
Bread street -atattan to the lodgings at No. 81
Prescott street. Whitechapel and who was pres
identify Cunningham as the person who engaged
his cab and occupied it during the transfer of the
luggage from the station to the boarding house.
During the examination. Cunningham stated
that when ne resided in the United States he
lived in New York city and worked as a laborer
ON the Morgan steamship dock, and as freight
handler in the Pennsylvania railroad depot.