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

poSSeSSefla brown trunk or American manu-
facture, and yet the cabman who drove hii1
from the Broad street station to the PRESCOTT
street lodging would swear that this trunk was
part of the prisoners luggage on this journey,
and the landlady at those lodgings would testify
that the same trunk was part of his room furni-
ture during part of the time he lived in her
house.
Another point dwelt upon by Mr.. Poland was
the fact that no writing was found in the lodging
occupied by Cunningham. Although he did
much writing himself. he carefully removed
every trace OF his correspondence, as in the mem
Uranium BOOKS found among his effects every
page that had borne any writing was found care
fully torn out.
The solicitor then proceeded to describe other.
evidence found against Cunningham. Among
TINS was detonator, which Mr. Poland produced
and exhibited to the court This fell out of sack
belonging to the prisoner while the police were
examining his luggage Col Majendie chief
inspector OF explosives, had examined this de-
tonaIor: ana pronounced II amachne used in the
explosion of dynamite. The detonator was of q
kind used to produce the conclusion NECESSARY
the explode dynamite, and was itself operated
by means of fuse.
Resuming his review of the prisoners conduct
while he was in the city of London SO far as
the government detectives have been able to
trace it out Mr.. Poland said it was on Jan. IA
last that Cunningham moved into Scarboro
street from his lodging in Prescott street The
Scarboro street lodgings were quite near to the
been moved from the Broad-street station to the
Prescott-street house. and which disappeared
from the latter place before the prisoners
removal thence, was taken away during
the temporary absence of the prisoner
from the house. Just before going out
Cunningham told the landlady the brown trunk
belonged to a friend who might at any time call
for it, but if called for during the prisoners alb
sence, to tell him to remain if convenient, until
his return, as he would not be gone long A
stranger did call and depart, but the landlady
did not notice whether he took the trunk. Sub
sequenty she observed that the trunk was gone
and that box of similar shape, size and color
had been substituted for it in Cunninghams
room. The detectives had traced this brown box
and found it had been purchasedin Whitechapsl,
in the vicinity of the Prescott-street lodgings,
the same day the prisoner left the message
concerning the trunk, and presumably by Gun
bingham. for the very purpose of substitution.
In the Prescott-street house, continued Mr..
Poland, Cunningham gave his name as Gilbert;
he told the landlady he was by occupation q
commercial traveller When he moved into the
Scarboro- street lodgings he gave his name as
Dalton; to the landlady here he gave his occu-
he did not like the work and was seeking an
other situation.
AN EMBARRASSING QUESTION.
After the prisoners arrest, when he was taxed
with changing his name to Dalton when he
moved into Scarhoro street, he said. 1T is lie;
never did so;" but when asked to ex-
plain how it was that his landlady
in Scarboro street called him Dalton, the pris-
oner said he could not account for it
He had, he insisted given her his name as Gil
bert, and when he found she adopted the habit
of calling him Dalton, he thought it mat
ter of no consequence to correct her. This in
diligence in aliases the prisoner had seemed to
find necessary almost from the moment of his
landing in England. For instance, when he was
first arrested he told the police he lived in Liver
pool. and had come down to London to enjoy a
holiday in the Tower When requested to give
his Liverpool address, he said he lived at No. %
Robert street, to another officer he gave No. 81
Robert street; to another he said he lived In
London, and this time gave the Scarborcs street
address. 1t from this latter address
that the brown box which had been substituted
for the brown trunk of American manufacture
in the Prescott-street lodgings was removed i'm
mediately after the explosion and before the po-
lice reached the house. Another case of willful
falsehood on the part of tie prisons1 vas h,sas--
NAL of having ever posse "a trunk and
his denunciation of his prescott landlady as o
liar.
Concerning the prisoners identity and the
place from which he had come, Mr. Poland went
on to show that the circumstantial evidence so
far collected tended to show that he had come
from the United States. Cunningham's stories
about America were less contradictory than any
he had yet told. He had frankly admitted to
the police that Just prior to his ar
rival in England he had lived
long time in New York city. He
said he had worked as freight handler in
the Pennsylvania railway station, and had also
been employed as laborer on the docks of the
Guion steamship line at New York, lhere he
lived in Franklin street. These statements were
corroborated to some extent by the prisoners
clothing and other personal effects The shirt
he wore at the time of his arrest was marked
above the wristbands with the name, "Clennon."
In explanation of this, and in answer to ques-
ton whether Clennon his real name,
Cunningham said the shirt must have been
marked that way when he purchased it, and that
he obtained it new in q shop in Hudson street,
New York city. lie insisted that he was un-
aware that a name was marked on the shirt, and
knew nothing about the same.
Reverting to the history of Cunningham's
movements after his arrival in England, Mr..
Poland said the government was not yet pre-
pared to give any extended account of the priS-
oners life in Liverpool, except to say that a p0-
lice inquiry had shown that no such person as
the prisoner had ever been known at either of
the Robert-street addresses given by Cunning
ham,
Between the hours of IL and l on the after.
noon of Jan. "a the day on which the explosions
at Westminster and the Tower occurred Cum
ningham went away from his lodgings in Scar
boro street, and he never returned He left no
word with any person in the house as to his des-
tination, and no one there had any
knowledge of his movements that day.
But the police had, by dint of extraordinary
patience, made what the prosecution con-
sidered faithful trace of the man from the
moment he left the house. and this showed that
he proceeded straight to the Tower. 1t was q
free day for visitors 1t could be shown that Cum
n;ngham procured ticket at the bottom of the
stops ascending to St Johns Chapel in the White
Tower; that he went up into St Johns Chapel,
and after leaving there proceeded to the armory.
In the armory visitor could wander around be-
tween many stands of arms and do many things
unobserved; he could easily, that day, have
deposited any quantity of explosives in one of
the many recesses or corners. and even have
lighted fuse without attracting attention.
CONCLUSIVE PROOF PROMISED.
It would be shown that the prisoner did both
that day. He was seen strolling through, look.
ing about those rooms, between the hours of
and 2. A few minutes before the explosion he
was seen in tho arinory, furtively looking about,
h. elo "a b.