Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-03
CUNNINGHAM ARRAIGNED
SOLICITOR POLAND REPRE-
SENTS THE GOVERNMENT.

/ SOLICITOR POLAND REPRE-
SENTS THE GOVERNMENT.
/ A Sensation Created by the Announce
ment that the Government Reserved
! the Right to Change the Charge of
/ Conspiracy to One OF High Treason
The Prisoner Closely Guarded.
| LONDON, Feb. 2.-The examination of
J. G.. Cunningham, charged on suspicion
Of completely in causing the recent explo-
/ sion in the Tower of London, was begun
this morning. Mr.. Poland, Solicitor of
the treasury, appeared for the prosecu-
tiOn. In opening the case for the Crown,
/ Mr.. Poland said that the government in
| tended to prove that the prisoner was an
active agent in the conspiracy which cul-
minated in the horrible outrage. The
! Solicitor then related the facts in regard
to the prisoners movements at Liverpool
! and London, from the date of his arrival
| at Liverpool from America, to the time OF
! his arrest at the Tower, few moments
! after the explosion occurred, his travelling
| under the assumed names of Gilbert and
| Dalton, and many suspicious circum-
stances in connection with his stay.
| PECULIAR TRUNK.
| Mr.. Poland dwelt particularly on the
/ mysterious disappearance of a peculiar
| trunk from the prisoners lodgings, in
! Scarboro street, Immediately after Cum
! ningham's arrest, and which was taken
away by two men. Mr.. Poland laid stress
upon the fact in order to show that Cum
niDgham was in league with others who
must have been instructed in a line of
action to be taken IN case OF arrest. Mr.
Poland further said that witnesses would
be produced to prove that Cunningham
had for several days previous been seen
lettering in and around the Tower of
London.
THE PRISONERS DETONATOR.
He also produced a small detOnator
which was found in the prisoners bag
gage, and said that it was similar TO those
which bad been used in previous dyna-
mite Outrages in London and elsewhere In
England, indicating that the prisoner
might have been connected with those
crimes. In conclusion, Mr.. Poland asked
that Cunningham be arraigned under the
explosives act on a charge of conspiracy,
and said that he might pOssibly, at a later
day, request that the charge be changed
to one Of high treason, SO tRae.tt f3'D2ad! -
OF the latter crime could be meted out to
him, as dynamite Outrages could be con-
strued to be acts Of war of a rebelliOus
people.
CUNNINGHAM's RECENT MOVEMENTS.
Continuing his opening address, the
Solicitor said that Cunningham was but
y years old, and not 2S as he claimed at
hrstl By occupation he was a dock la
b0rer. be was not alone in the work of
causing the explosion at the Tower, but
in league with others, whom the govern
ment hoped soon to prosecute. The pris-
Oner had lived in the United States sew
eral years. He arrived in England last
November. He came aboard the steam
ship Adriatic and landed at Liverpool.
He took up quarters in that city in
small hotel at No. 81 Roberts street.
When he left that place he came to Lon
don. The government, Mr.. Poland said,
was not yet prepared to say just how
Cunningham had employed himself dur
ing the interval between his arrival in
London and the date of the Tower expl0-
SION. That was as vet unnecessary, but
could be proved if necessary.
LOITERING AROUND THE TOWER.
1t would be shown that the prisoner
began lettering about the Tower after his
removal from Prescott street, and that he
passed in and visited the Tower building
few DAYS before the explosion at least
once. The prisoners counsel are Messrs.
McQuellen and NOrden, both of Liverpool
AT the request OF the prosecution Gun
ningham was remanded for a week, and
was removed from Bow Street Court back
10 MS cell III Clerkenwell prison.
POLAND's SENSATION.
Mr.. POlands notification to the court
that the government would reserve the
privilege OF changing the charge against
Cunningham from the present one of con-
splracy to hign treason, so that the result |
might be execution instead of imprison-
ment, provided for under the explosives |
act, caused a cOmmOtiOn among the |
spectators. The declaration was at once |
construed into an admission that the |
crown had found that in Cunningham |
they had the NEST important prisoner vet |
arrested. This impression was confirmed |
by the extraordinary measures which |
were taken when Cunningham was driven |
to court. On each side of the driver was
an armed policeman, and officers with eX-
posed revOlvers stood guard on the steps |
leading to the van door. The conveyance |
was driven slowly in order to allow its |
armed police escort to keep alongside, |
and to enable detectives who followed on |
the sidewalks to keep up.
BUT FEW IN THE COURT.
Very few persons were admitted to the |
Police Court during the examination. |
Before the commencement of the regular /
proceedings number of witnesses were |
assembled in court for the purpose of |
Identifying the prisoner as the man they |
had reported to the police as having been |
engaged in suspicious movements just
before the explosions. Cunningham was
placed in a small crowd, but three of the
witnesses, one of whom was a woman, the
other two being cOnstables, had no diff.
Guilty in singing him out as
the man whom they had given
the information about. A cab
man who had given the police in
formation about the transfer of the
brown trunk of American manufacture
from Broad street station to the lodgings. |
at No. 30 Prescott street, and who was |
present as witness for the crown, was
unable to identify Cunningham as the
person who occupied the cab during the
transfer of the luggage from the station to
the boarding house.
NO INTERVIEW ALLOWED.
Previous to the remanding of the pris
Oner, in answer to request for the privi-
lege Of an interview with Cunningham.
made by Mr.. Quillian. one of the counsel |
for the defense, Judge Ingham replied that
no one would he allowed to see or con-
verse with the prisoner without a
special permit from Sir William |
Vernon HarcOurt, Home Secretary. Bv
the time the examination was con-
cluded the crowd that pressed around the
building numbered many thousands. The
adjoining housetOps and every window in
the neighbOrhOOd were crowded with peO-
pie curious to catch a glimpse of Cum
bingham during his removal from court.
During the progress of the van, which
conveyed the prisoner back to CIerken.
well prison, the streets along the route
were lined with files of special police. and
fairly swarmed with detectives.
THE ANTI-IRIsH MOVE IN LONDON.
DUBLIN, Feb. "A London CORE
spondent of FreeDldn'S Journal saws that
the panic produced by the recent outrages
is causing many employers to plav right
into the hands of the dynamiters. Some
firms in Leeds and Sheffield are dismiss
ing all Irish employees. The very fact
that detectives are employed to watch
wherein large numbers of
persons of Irish birth are EMPLOYED has
proved so irritating to the owners of the
subjected to such disagreeable
espionage that to escape from it they are
misunderstanding to the only means OF
relief at their cOmmand-the wholesale |
discharge of their Irish employees. One |
of the largest publishing houses in Lon
don on Saturday last dismissed from their
employ every person of Irish birth.
A LIVELY MEETING AT GLASGOW.
GLASGOW, Feb. 2.-O'Leary, the Fe-
nian, lectured to a crowded meeting of
Irishmen here this evening. References
to the names of Parnell, Rosa and Ford