Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-17

Bell, further particulars show, alsOI
had plenty Of money in his pockets
when arrested. but no explosives were
found in his room. At his hotel Bell
described himself as an American tour
it's, and he looked the part to perfec-
ton.
The police of Glasgow received tel
egram from Scotland Yard instruct
ing them to follow Bell everywhere
and, in consequence, a close watch was
kept over him. Four hours later Bell,
the police assert, received a telegram
from lyman giving the latter's address
and the address of the other men takel
into custody.
When Bell was arrested he reassert-
ed that he was an American tourist.
The papers found upon Bell include
documents relating t the three other
men in the hands of the police on the
charge which led to his arrest.
A Scotland Yard official, in an inter-
view says that the authorities for many
months have been aware that num-
Der of the most rechless and desperate
u ylldIl1ItIS Ill Tic CuIISu oIdlSS Ii AZ
been contemplating a raid on English
centers, particularly in London. There
fore, the official added, vigilance was
redoubed both in Great Britain and
in America. However, several of the
alleged conspirators succeeded in evau-
ing the detectives and reached parts Of
Europe They were it is claimed,
provided with an abundance of money
and lived luXuriOusly at hotels on
the continent. They did not make any
effort to disguise the chara cter of their
mission lyman according to the Scot
land Yard men, has been at Bolougne-
sur Mer for more than a week and
bOasting of the revenge he would
wreck when his plans were perfected.
! The Scotland Yard official referred to
was unable to say whether the pris-
Oners would be brought to England
as the offense of possessing explosives
was committed outside of the British
empire A later dispatch says that
/ from information in possession of the
police there is a strong supiciOn that
the conspirators were planning an out
| break to occur while the car and
czarina visited the queen at Balmoral
! 1t is added that all the supects are
known TO have purchased materials for
the manufacture of bombs.
A dispatch from Antwerp states that
| two Irish FenianS said to be natural
lied American citizens, arrived there
! three weeks ago and renteI house in
the suburb of Berchem. On Satur-
| day the English detectives, who had
| been watching these men since their
arrival at Antwerp, their departure
from the United States having been
made known to the British authorities
had the houses surrounded by Belgian
I police. But when the building was
entered it was found that it's occupants
were gone. A laboratory, however
was discovered, fully fitted Win appli-
anceS and materials for the manu-
! facture of bombs and explosives. The
dispatch also intimates that one OF
! these men has already served term OF
ten years Imprisonment for cOmpliclLy
in dynamite outrages.
llS oIOIlCl1u SI VI CiuJhOl1CISo 49,
| lieve that the men referred to in the
Antwerp dispatch are the two persons
arrested at Rotterdam and incidentally
! it is now alleged that the men arrested
at Rotterdam are Kearney and Haines
and not Wallace.
A later dispatch from Rotterdam re-
ports that the men arrested there were
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| their room. Several internal ma
chil.es were found in their possession
with a quantity of correspondent in
! cypher, the key to which having been
! discovered, the correspondence was
read and is said to have been plans fO1
| dynamite outrages, including an at
! tempt upon the life Of Queen Victoria
A semE official communication upon
the subject of the recent arrests of al
| legged dynamite conspiratOrs was issued
! yesterday afternoon. 1t says: There
has been, within the full knowledge OF
! the Scotland yard officials, for some
time past, a gang of despesadoes buslly
engaged in America in preparing the
qualifications for an extensive and ala
! bOlical plot to perpetrate a dynamite
! outrage in this country and establish
reign Of terror.
! Chief Justice Melville, vino has been
! so prominent in tracing and arresting
| Fenians, has been at the head of the
! Scotland Yard arrangements for check
mating the present conspirators Grad
ually and quietly a complete network
was drawn around the plOtters, and
the fact being known that they were
! in intimate communication with pro-
minent Russian nihilists, thus enabled
the police to pursue, investigate and
discover on what is believed to be alb
solute evidence, that one Of the most
recent developments of the scheme was
an outrage on the cZar on the occasion
of his visit to England. The prime
movers were Fenians in America, and
when the plot had been carried as ia,
as possible there lyman and the
other chief agents were dispatched to
Europe to cOnsumate the designs
adopted. Every precaution was taken
in skipping them separately and by
different routes. Inc emissaries of
Scotland Yard, however, logged their
every movement. ;"
The semi-official communication
then deals with the arrests and the
capture of all the appliances, docu-
ments, ETC., and continues:
1t was arranged that Bell should go
to Glasgow to superintend a series of
ont