Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
A DIABOLIC PLOT.
Preparations to Blow Up an Ocean
Steamerin New York Harb0r.
English Detectives and Desperate Irish
men are Said to Have Been at the
Bottom of the Scheme.
A Scheme to Alternate American Sympathy
From ParneII and His Friends-TO
Force an Extradition Treaty.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The Herald
claims to have secured information of
plot concocted by English detectives and
desperate Irishmen to blow up one of the
great transatlantic steamers in New
York harbor. According to the Herald
theobject is to force the adoption of the
British-American extradition treaty and
strengthen the case of the London Times
against the Parnellites. The Herald
says:
On the 18th of December last the Her
aid astonished the Irish nationalist in
America by the publication of an article
about the movements of London detec-
tives. Some months before the date
mentioned Fred Jervis a wellk-nown Scot
land yard man, arrived in America, and
made no great secret of the fact he was
here in the interest of the London Times
TO FERRET OUT INFORMATION
about the movements of Irish American
teOnspirators - and particularly those
of the dynamiters. Chief Inspector
Shore, superintendent of the criminal in
vestigation department of the London
metropolitan police, also came out with
the intention to try to connect the Par
nellites with the crimes charged. Shore
went to Kansas City to meet Jervis and
representa- tives of PinkertOn. Three of
Pinkerton s men have been for years
at work on Irish national secret
societies. One of them, it seems,
communicated directly with Scotland
yard, and Manager Bangs of this city
admitted it to an Irish ationalist, who
caught him in a trap. The London Times
at the first hearings had exhausted its
evidence, and its lawyers saw it was only
of secondary Importance. An adjourn
ment was proposed and Parnel 8 counsel
were caught mapping and agreed to it.
Then detectives were sent to America
WITH PLENTY OF MONEY
to buy real or manufactured evidence to
enable the great London journal to carry
on its case. After the arrival of Shore
and ervis was known it was discovered
Inspector Andrews of Scotland yard was
in Toronto and Montreal also on the same
errand Stirred by these publications
the friends of Parnell and the Irish ma
tional league set close watch on the
movements of the English detectives.
They found the information was true,
and that the chiefs of the Pinker-
ton agency, Bob and Bill Pinkerton,
were roaming around Kansas City about
the time indicated accompanied by two
strangers; also that the Pinkertons left
one of the strangers in Kansas City and
proceeded to Denver, where they dropped
the other. It is known that plot has
developed with ramif1cationS in Kansas
City and New York for the purpose of
blowing up by dynamite some one of the
English passenger steamers in New York
harbor. What has this plot to do with
those visits to Kansas City? Well, the
parties engaged in
THE DIABOLIC CRIME
propose to raise a fund of $4,000 with
which to make the necessary preparations
for the attempt, and it is known active
steps are new being taken to securp the
money. The writer has been told by a
well informed Irishman that most if not all
the dynamite scares of the past few years
were originated by special agents iOf the
English government. From all that has
been learned in various quarters it is
more than probable that the
present scheme to blow up an En-
glish steamer III American waters
is plot to create a scare that will have
the effect of damaging Parnell and his
friends in their struggle with the London
Times and the Irish government, and of
turning American sympathy away from
the Irisf cause. The promoters are
known to -e deadly enemies of ParneI.
The Parnellites have not much to carry
on the war against the powerful English
journal, and depend great deal upon
America for financial assistance That
is the reason, it Is asserted, the London
Times wanted some outrage commit
ted in America so as to ALLEVIATE the SYM
pathies of Americans and Irish-Ameri-
cans who don It believe in dynamite.
Patrick Egan of Lincoln, Neb, has
been in New York on business for some
days and with the information that the
Herald had received the writer went to
interview him on the subject.
4lTRIcK EGAN SPEAKS.
f'If the information you have, - said
Mr.. Egan, sis not strictly accurate, it
is nearly so. know that for
months past droves of London and
Dublin detectives have been over here.
The Herald p.irted this morning an
amusing story from Buffalo telling of the
discontinue of one of these detectives
by Buffalo men. It shows you how eager
the Times people are to grab at anything
TO bolster up their case
EDO you think this steamer business is
hoax?' asked.
NO. said Mr.. Egan ssSuch
scheme has been Matching in Kansas City
within the period, during which English |
detectives have been so busy in Amer
lea. -
''wHO ARE THE CoNSRIRATORS. -
For obvious reasons must decline to
mention names, but believe the object
and the only object of such a scheme is to
effect American public opinion and alien
ate American sympathy from the Irish
movement. 1t would also have a very
different effect on the present Times in
vestigation. There is another i'm
portant consideration IN the
case. As was brought out in
the late campaign the English govern
ment is extremely anxious to get an ex-
tradition treaty by which it can put its
hands at any time on any Irishman who
is obnoxious to it politically. Don t you
see that the blowing up of an English
steamer in New York harbor would result |
in England asking the hand of the Amer
lean government, and compelling the |
American congress to pass an extradition
treaty in the form that England desired?
win tell you that / have reason to know
that persons who are interested in the |