The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-24
A DESPERATE PLOT.
A Plot Discovered to Blow Up an Baglish
Steamer IN American WGter.

Steamer in American Water.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The Herald
claims to have secured information Of
a 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 the object is to force the adop-
ton of the British-American extradi-
ton treaty and strengthen the case of
the London Times against the Par
nellites. The Herald says: On the
18th Of December last the Herald as
tonished the Irish nationalists in Amer
lea by the publication of an article
telling about the movements or Lon
don detectives. Some months before
the date mentioned, Fred. JerVis, a
we'll known Scotland Yard man, ar
rived in America, and made no great
secret of the fact that he was here in
the interest of the London Times, to
ferret out information about the
continent of Irish-American ''conspir-
ators," and particularly these of the
dynamiters.
Chief Inspector Shore, superinten-
dent of the criminal investigation OF
the London metropolitan police, also
came out with the same intention
to try to connect the Parnellites with
the crimes charged. Mr.. Shore went
10 Kansas City TO meet Jervis and the
representatives of the PinkertOns.
for years at work in the 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 nationalist
who caught him in trap. The Lon
don Times at the first hearings had ex-
hausted its evidence and its lawyers
saw that it was only of secondary i'm
portance. An adjournment was pro-
proposed and Parnell's council were
caught mapping and agreed to 1t. Then
detectives were sent to America with
plenty of money to buy real or manu-
featured evidence to enable the great
London journal to carry on its case. At
ter the arrival of MeSsrs. Shore and Jer-
Wis was known it was discovered that
Inspector Andrews of Scotland Yard
was in Toronto and Montreal, also on
the same errand, Stirred up by these
publications, the friends of Mr.. Par
neil and the Irish National League
set a close watch on the
movements of the English de-
tectiYes. They found that the infor-
nation was true and that the chiefs of
the PinkertOn agency, Bob and Billy
Pinkerton, were roaming around Kan
sas City about the time indicated, &C
companied by two strangers; also, that
| the PinkertonS left one of the stran-
gers in Kansas City and proceeded to
Denver, where they dropped the other.
| What 1 have since learned is very
startling. It is that a plot has devel-
and New York, for the purpose OF
blowing up by dynamite some of the
English passenger steamers in New
York harbor. What has this plot tC
do with those visits to Kansas City
Well, the parties engaged in the diabol
ical scheme propose to raise fund OF
81, 600 with which to make the neces
sary preparations for the attempt, and
it is said that active steps are now be
ing taken to secure the money. Herr
is description of the two mysteriou!
strangers who appeared in Kansas Cit
in December last:
One was about thirty-five years old
with dark hair, whiskerS and nous
tache, and weighed about $50 pounds
The other was tall and stout, will
brown hair and embroWned complex
ion.
The men described were in constan
communication with the alleged con
SpiratOrs, and it is certain that at leas
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the Pinkerton headquarters. l have
been told by well informed IrishmeI
that most if not all the dynamite scarel
of the past few years were originated
by special agents of the English gov
eminent. From all have learned il
various quarters, it is more than prob
able that the present scheme to blow
up an English steamer il
American waters is plot Il
create a scare that will havl
the effect of damaging Mr.. Parnel
and his friends in their struggle will
the London Times and the tory govern
ment, and of turning American syrnpa
thy away from the Irish cause. Thu
promoters are known to be deadly enc
mics of Mr.. Parnell. The Parnellite
have not much to carry Onthe wa
with the English governments powerful
journal and depend a great deal upoI
America for financial assistance. Tha
is the reason, l was assured, that tn
London Times wanted some outrage
committed in America, so as to aleniat'
the sympathies OF Americas Irish
Americans who don't believe in dyna
mite.