The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-17
\ WIDESPREAD FENIAN PLOT
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
FRUSTRATED.
FOUR SUSPECTED MEN ARRESTED.
In Europe Yesterday-It Is Believed
the Plan Was to Kill the Car
and Queen Victoria at
Their Meeting.

London, Sept. 14-(Copyrighted, 1896
by the Associated Prcss.)-It is gener-
ally believed here that the police, by the
arrest of Edward Bell. at Glasgow ON
Saturday; j. Wallace and John f.
Kearney ut Rotterdam, and j. Z. Ty-
nan (No. Il, at Boulogne-sur-Mer
France, have nippcd widespread dyna-
mite plot in the bud.
Bell is about 2S years of age, of me
dunn build, slim, clean shavcn and of
sallow complexion. The prisoner has
very little to say about his being taken
into custody. The only information
which he has thus far vouchsafed is that
he is not Il British subject. Bells pa
pers and other belongings are in the
hands of the police, who. it is said, have
been shadowing him since his arrival
at Glasgow.
The police attach the utmost import
ance to the arrests made and are OBJ
serving the greatest reticcncc on the
subject. 1t appears, however, that the
police officials have been cognizant for
some time past of the existence of Il
fresh dynamite conspiracy and there is
no reason to doubt that the information
in the possession of the Scotland Yard
authorities is of the utmost Importance,
although it is difficult 10 OBTAIN definite
facts ut present.
The Globe, which has close relations
with the government, i'll Il long leading
editorial last evening, intimates that the
arrests were made on information re-
ceiVed from one Of the recently relCaSd
Irish political prisoners. 1t is added this
man has also furnished the authorities
with valuable evidence in relation to the
Clan-na-Gael, and it is further stated
that the government released several
prisoners so as not to furnish Il clue to
the source of its information.
One of the most notorious Fcniun
leaders, it is also said, arrived in Great
Britain from the United States several
months ago and the Globe at that time
published an article about his presence,
pointing out that there was general
revival of Fcnianism in progress as a
result of these disclosures.
The Globe claims the Fenian leader
alluded to hastily returned TO the United
States. Incidentally, it was the Globe
which first proclaimed the identity of
tut SCCOlu Hlull III hOllcTuu
as being John II. Kearney of New
York, who is charged with having been
concerned in blowing up the Glasgow
gas works in 1892. Il deed for which Ter
renee McDermott and others are now
serving sentences of Imprisonment for
life in Portland prison. Kearney es-
capped to New York. and, it was said at
the time, his escape was winkcd at by
the highest authorities. 1t was further
alleged that it was Kearney who. under
the pretence of friendship. led Phean
into the trap when Short, the butcher,
nearly stabbed Phelan of Kansas City
to death i'll ODonovan Rossa's office in
Chambers street, New York. Kcarncy
may now be charged with the Glasgow
outrage. as well as with participation
in the present alleged movement
A dispatch from BoulOgne-sur-NIcr to
the Associated Press says that lyman
was arraigned there this morning be-
fore the deputy police prosecutor. The
proceedings were confined to furnishing
evidence of the arrest and the establish
ment of the identity of the prisoner,
which the latter fully admitted.
The Scotland Yard detectives were
present mt these formalites and even
tually the prisoner was remanded and
taken to the town Jail. while awaiting
necessary to bring about eXtradition.
1t appears that lyman, during his con
tinental tour, passed himself off as Il
queens messenger or royal courier and
claimed that Bell. who was travelling
with him. was his secretary. lyman
asserted that they were en- route to Co
penhagen with an autograph letter from
Queen Victoria 20 the ear.
The Globe correspondent says: 1t
was at first thought lyman was con
nected with the going to Paris of an
archistS who contemplated an uphcaval
while the ear is in Paris.
A Scotland Yard official, in an inter
view published in the Sun this afternoon,
said that the authorities for many
months had been aware that Il number
of the most reckless and desperate dy-
namiters in the United States had been
contemplating raid on English cen
tiers. particularly in London. Therefore,
the official says, vigilance was doubled
in Great Britain and America. How
ever. some of the alleged conspirators
succeeded in cvading the detectives and
reached different parts of Europe They
were, it is claimed, provided with an
abundance of money and lived luxu-
riOnsly at hotels on the continent They
did not make an effort to disguise the in
tent of their mission.
A later dispatch from Glasgow to the
Associated Press says that from infor-
nation in the possession of the police |
Of that city there is strong suspicion
that the conspiratOrs were planning an |
to occur while the ear and |
rzarina visited the queen ut Balmoral. !
1t is added that all the suspects are |
known to have purchased materials for |
The manufacture of bombs.
Dispatches were received by the As
'ociated Press from Brussels today that |
obtained from reliable |
sources indicates that the dynamiters. |
whose laboratory has been discovered |
1t Antwerp. were anarchists whose aim |
vas directed against the car and it is |
inOwn that the police Of Antwerp were
Informed by the Scotland Yard author
ties that Il plot was in preparation to at
empt to assasSinate the ear in Lon
ion, hence the discovery of the dyna-
mite bomb laboratory at Antwerp.
Many bombs, it appears. had already
,een manufactured, and the police he
leye that one of the conspirators. who
5 believed to have fed to Breslau. has
AIKEN several Internal machines with
lin: later dispatch from Rotterdam
o the Associated Press reports that five
men were arrested there while in he'd
several Internal machines were found
n their possession. together with a
uantity of correspondence in cipher. a
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