Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-01
DYNAMITE DISCLOSURES,
SIR EEARCOURTW WARNED Of AN
EXTENSIVE PLOT.


/ Guards Around the Public Buildings
Again Renesyed-Arrest of q Suspect
/ Charged with Conspiracy to Cause Ex-
MISUNDERSTANDING Revelations Hinted
at by the Police.
LoNDoN, Jan. 3l.-SiF William Vernon
Harcourt, Home Secretary, today re-
ceiyed q letter which alleged tbat an ex-
tensiye dynamite plot was being hatohed.
1t mentioned a number Of buildings which
the dynamiters intend 90 blow ND. It
also gave the names of several plotters
and the places ut which they could BE
found.
Extra guards have been placed on duty
at the bank in consequence of threat5
having been made to blow up the build
III IS. Tle police are making an inTestigQ-
tjou.
ANOTHER ALLEGED CONsEIRATOR.
A man giving the name ot Newbold was
arrested at the Central station of the Mid
land Railway at Derby to-day with dyna-
mite in his possession. He declined to
give his history for the past month. He
was examined lefore Magistrate Evi
dence Was produced against him in the
shape OF letters received from the sOutl
OF England threatening to blow Up the
Town Hail III Derby. lie admitted that
the handwriting ON the envelopes con.
tanning the letters was his. The letters
described a plot for the destruction by dy-
Mantle Of the Town Hall and a bank
ia an adjoining county. When asked to
explain away this evidence NewbOid
SAID that he could not, although he in
sisted that be was innocent of anv
wrong. He said that he replied to several
advertisement, about the time of the
dates on the envelopes and said that the
envelopes he had used in these replies
must have fallen into bad hands and
again been used, and in this way came
into the possession of the police. The
prisoner is about % years OF aye and gave
the name of Philip Newbold. The charge
against him Is conspiracy to cause ex-
plOsiOns.''
MORE EVIDENCE IN HAND.
The Chief Constable asked the Magis-
trate to remand the prisoner. He de-
clared that the detectives possessed in an
| Incomplete state other evidence against
NeWbold Of more serious and circum-
stantlaI character than thatprOduced. He
was remanded till Feb. I. The develop
ments excite much attention, and con
/ stantly grow more serious. 1t is stated
that the police found among the prisoners
| papers documents revealing a dynamite
| plot of considerable magnitude. The
document was not in NeWbOld's hand
| address, which was proved to have been
| penned by himself, so that the recipient
might know where to send the answer.
During the proceedings the prisoner was
very much agitated
NEWBoLD's OCCUPATION.
AZ the time the letter was written. and
at the time of his arrest, Newbold was
employed in the Derby shops of the Mid
land Railway Company, and he regularly
wore the ordinary clothes of a working
! man. In person Newbold is of dark COM
/ pleXion, and Of short. thick-set figure.
/ Derby Town Hall has been placed under
| special police protection, and the officials
Of the Midland Railway Company are
us.ng great vigilance to trace out all
/ ciews Of the discovered conspiracy Or
4 ders have been sent from London to de-
/ tain and search all suspicious persons
! found travelling over the Midland Road
The letter carrier arrested yesterday on
/ suspicion Of being implicated in dyna-
4 mite conspiracies was to-day discharged.
/ his Innocence having been demonstrated.
/ Goodman was also released.
The new law courts at Temple Bar were
1 closely guarded to-day in consequence OF
/ a letter having been received by the au-
/ tborltles that an attempt would be made
/ to blow up the buildings,