Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-11-07
HAVE MANY THEORIES.
London Aroused by the Explosion
of a Bomb Near the Resi-
denCe Of a Judge.

London, Nov. A bomb exploded to-
night outside house in Tiney street.
Park Lane. two doors from the residence
of Sir Henry Hawkins. one of the JUS
tees OF the Queens Bench division of
Her Majesty's High Court of Justice.
The front of the house was much dam
aged and the windows of houses on the
opposite side of the street were smashed.
The explosion occurred shortly after II
clock. Justice Hawkins is the Judge
who sentenced Frederick Charles, Victor
Gales, Joseph Thomas Duncan and Jean
BattOila, the WallSan anarchists, to va
riouS terms of imprisonment He also
presided at the trials of other anarchists
and imposed sentences of various degrees
upon them.
A squad of detectives from Scotland
Yard is busily at work investigating the
explosion Col. Sir Edward Bradford.
the chief commissioner of police. is per-
sOnally directing the matter. The scene
around I1lney street at daybreak this
morning was one of extreme excitement.
The whole neighborhood seemed to be in
possession of uniformed police and detec-
tlyeS, who kept back the crowd of sight
seerS who had fiocked to the spot Many
OF the residents of the locality were so
alarmed by the explosion that they fled
from their houses and have been too
frightened to return. Consequently their
residences have been under police guard
since last night and will SO remain until
order is restored. A number of the resi-
dents were. however, willing to return
if the police had permitted; but until the
Official investigation is completed the po-
lice thought is advisable to keep everybody
away from the scene, and so many house
holders, their families and servants, stood
shlvering behind the police lines during
the early hours of the morning.
So soon us there was light enough for
hn ~nrE 'n1 Eoin h., ;nf
spector of explosives, directed that photo
graphs be taken of the scene of the eX-
ploSlon from all points of view and the
fragments of the bomb. splnters, ETC.
were taken by the police to the Home of
nee for examination. Up to noon the DO
lice had no definite theory as to the origin
of the explosion with the exception of
suSpecting the man from the Savoy hotel.
But the authorities are busy running down
theories which may any one of them con-
meet the suspected man with the outrage.
In the first place the police are investi-
eating the theory that the explosion was
the work OF some person who sought re-
yenge for some decision rendered by the
late Lord and Her master of the rolls
and father of the Honorable Reginald
Brett, in which case, according to the
police, the author of the explosion must
be sought after among the many GRIMM
ais who have appeared from time to time
III the rolls court who may have enter
tanned malice from some imaginary griev
ance. The second theory is that Mr.
Brett may have in some way excited the
luminosity of the dynamiters.
The third theory of the police is that
the outrage was the result of the recently
announced determination Of the Irish
physical force party to commence an act
i've dynamite campaign and that the eX-
plosion was intended as some sort Of Il
notice of warning to the home secretary.
I a
IS next to that of Mr.. Brett bat which is
tenanJed by Horace West. the secretary
of Mr. Asquith. Then again it is thought
that Mr.. West may himself have incurred
the enmity OF anarchists CT Others by
his refusal ut some time to bother MIR.
Asquth with anarchist appeals or to
transmit to him the demands of members
of the Irish revolutionary party
Some plausibilitr is given to this theory
by the fact that the Scotland Yard au-
thorities then had evidence that the Irish
physical force party WAS planning an I'M
mediate campaign This activity, it was
claimed. WAS III consequence of the reply
of the Rt. Hon. John Morley, chief sec
rotary for Ireland. 70 the deputati0n
which called on him last week Ill refer
ence to the release OF the lrishm>n now
serving terms OF imprisonment III Eng
land under the trea&On-fel0ay act.
The fourth theory is that the outrage
Is Of anarchist origin ard that II was d
rected against the residence Of Justice
Hawkins. who IN addition to trying and
cOndemning the Walthall anarchists tried
and condemned the majority OF the anar-
chists who have been brought into court
during the last ten years and who has
been threatened repeatedly since the ;:ial
Of the two Italian anarchists, Guesscppo
Farnara and Francesca P0lti. who on
May t last were sentenced respectively
to twenty years and ten years imprison-
ment.