The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-17

NEW YORK, Oct. tf.-John q. hear-
ney and Thomas Haines, the two al
legged Irish dynamiters who were ar
rested in Rotterdam September 10, ar
rived at Hoboken this morning on the
Werkenddm.
Besides a few personal friends, there
was no one on the pier to reeve them
Kearneys wife did not receive teie-
graphic notice OF the arrival of the
vessel until s O'Clock. and she was not
present. Kearney, however. waited Tor
her, and at 10 o'clock he greeted US
wife and s-year-oid daughter. The
meeting was an affecting one. Ten
minutes later Kearney. his wife and
child and Thomas Haines were on their
way TO Kearneys home dl y. NasA-
ington avenue. Both men tell remark
able stories and botn vigorously deny
that they had ever been engaged in any
dynamite plot.
DUE TO A PLOT.
They insist that their arrest was due
to a plot on the part of the English de-
tectives. Kearney also believes that
his own brother-ln-laW was one Of tne
prime movers in it-that john Cert, the
name the brother-in-law goes 'oy-ls IN
the pay of the Engii.l government and
actually laid the wires which brought
i<earney to Rotterdam, knowing that
the English government wanteu Ilin
tor an alleged dynamite ofense, said
to have been committed in Glasgow
many years ago. kearney, as wen as
Haines. seemed amazed when informed
of the stories published concerning MIN,
particularly that winch said that -2,OJO
OF English money had been found n
his possession in Rotterdam when *
reed.
..fhe fact OF the matter is he said.
that I left New York with less than
$3.50. and at the time OF my arrest
had only S95. 40 / have brought DacA
with me exactly S1.2s.
LAS to the story that l was engaged
in the manufacture of bombs or ue-
structive affairs, l want TO say right
here that there is not a word OF trueh
in it.
nv brother-in-law purchasing tee pas
sage tickets with money which [ gave
him. and it was not Hntil L was many
DAYS out that l found my name had
been changed. My wife is a German
and there is a little property coming 70
her over there.
"A GOOD THING"
This brother-in-Iaw suggested that
il would be d good thing to take a
trip over and have the estate settled
AS I did not intend starting my PAPER
the Irish National, until SEPTEMBER,
readily consented to go. ! va a pretty
good time in both antwerp and Rot-
Ierdam. living in the most econom-cal
manner until two days before my az
rest.
while in a saloon one day, l met
Mr. Haines l recognized him as al
American as he did me. learned from
him that he was in Europe on vaca-
ton. He asked me if 1 could tell him
a good hotel to stop at, and l invited
him TO mine.
when we got to the hotel, we found
that there was not a vacant room so
cffered him, as 1 would TO any other
American. share OF my Da,,
well, HaineS and myself looked
about for the first da-. tnen ne De
came i'll, and / had to nurse him. he
was lying in bed on the morning OF
September 13 1t was about O'Clock,
If / remember rightly, when there was
a knock at the door. | opened it and
found six policemen and an English
man. whose name / do not Know ot3 :
side. Each carried small arsenal
Then l was told that We were r.iuef
arrest.
s.The room was never searched in our
presence. Indeed. we were bundled out
side. and taken to the station house.
In our absence thev claimed to have
searched the room and found a nuei-
Der of internal machines under the bed
upon which l was lying Then / was
taken TO q cell
TIE ENGLISH WAY.
Every day for twelve solid hours
two nolic.1nen sat in The cell with ne.