Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-11
BOUND FOR THE GALLOWS.
the Alleged Dynamite
er, ArraIgned.

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completely in causing the recent explo-
ion at the Tower of London, began in
Bow Street police court, this morning.
Poland, solicitor, in opening the case
for the crown, said the government in
tended to prove that the prisoner was
an active agent in a conspiracy which
eliminated in horrible outrage at the
Tower. The solicitor then related the
facts in regard to the prisoners move
ments at Liverpool and London from
the time of his arrival at Liverpool
from America up to the date
of his arrest at the Tower a few
minutes after the explosion occurred,
his travelling under the assumed names
of Gilbert and Dalton, and many sus-
picious circumstances connected with
his stay at both of the above cities.
Poland dwelt particularly on the mys-
FERROUS disappearance of peculiar box
from the prisoners lodgings in Scarboro
Street, Immediately after Cunningham's
arrest. POLAND laid stress upon these
facts in order to show that Cunningham
was in league with others, who must
have been instructed in line of action
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further said witnesses would be pro-
duced to prove that Cunningham had
for several days previous to the explo-
sion been seen loitoring in and around
the Tower of London. He then pro-
duced a plan of the tower and
pointed out the spot where the
explosion took place, at the same
time going into the details of the dam
age done to the building and injuries
sustained by the persons wounded by
the explosion. He also produced
small detonator found in the prisoners
baggage and said it was similar to those
used in previous dynamite outrages, in
dicating that the prisoner might have
been connected with these crimes. In
conclusion, Poland asked that Cunning
ham be arraigned under the explosives
act on charge of conspiracy, and said
he might possibly, at a later day, re-
quest that the charge be changed to
high treason SO that the penalty of the
latter crime could be melted out to him,
as dynamite outrages could be construed
as acts of war of rebellious people.
Poland's notification to the court that
the government would reserve the priv
ilege of changing the charge against
Cunningham to high treason SO that
the result of a conviction might be ex-
ecution instead of imprisonment, caused
commotion among the spectators. The
declaration was construed into an ad
mission that the crown had ascertained
that in Cunningham they had the most
important prisoner yet arrested for dyn
amite crimes. This impression was
confirmed by the extraordinary pre-
cautions taken to prevent Cunningham's
escape or rescue. He was conveyed
from his cell in the Clerkenwen prison
to the Bow Street court in strong van.
Cunningham was the only prisoner, but
locked in with him were several armed
constables. On each side of the driver
was an armed policeman, and officers
with exposed revolvers stood guard
upon the steps leading to the vans
barred door. Continuing his opening
address, the solicitor for the treasury
said Cunningham was % years of age
and by occupation he was dock
laborer. He was not alone in the work
of causing the explosion at the Tower,
but he was in league with others whom
the government hoped soon to have in
United States several years. He ar
rived in England last November and
took quarters at Liverpool in a
small hotel. When he left that place
he came direct to London. The soic-
itor stated that it could be proven that
the prisoner, or the Odd or oath of
December last, was at the Broad Street
railway station with large brown trunk.
This trunk was of American make. Be-
sides the trunk the prisoner had bag.
He left both at the station over night
and next day called and took them
away. In the meantime he secured Iodg-
ings at Whitechapei. Thither the pris-
oner had his brown trunk and bag re-
moved. While the prisoner was resid-
ing there the brown trunk mysteriously
disappeared. Some time after it's disap-
pearance Cunningham changed his
lodgings and took rooms in Scarboro
| Street. 1t would be shown that prisoner
began lettering about the Tower after
his removal from Whitechapel, and that
he passed in and visited the Tower
buildings few days before the explo-
sions, at least once.
Few persons are admitted to the Bow
NOIICO COuIb bn0 OAau1lud-
ton. Before the commencement of the
regular proceeding number of wit
nesses assembled in court for the pur-
pose of identifying the prisoner as the
man reported to the police as having
been engaged in suspicious movements
just before the explosions. Cunning
ham was placed in a small crowd, but
three of the witnesses, one of whom
was a woman, had no difficulty in
singing him out as the man of whom
they had given information.
The cabman who had given the po-
lice information about the transfer of
the brown trunk of American make
from Broad Street Station to the lodg-
ing at 80 Prescott Street, Whitechapel,
and who was present as witness for the
crown, was unable to identify Cunning
ham as the person who engaged the cab
and occupied it during the transfer of
luggage from the station to the board