The record-union., 1896-09-27
As a Result Of Dilisent Inquiries Into ali
DOinsS Of the Prisoners.
They Cannot be Connected With Fenian
Societies in Ireland,
Nor in the Remotest Way With Any
NihiliSt or Anarchist Group in
EurOpe-Beiief I hat Even Should
lyman be Extradited, Tried ard
Convicted He Would Soon be
Released From Prison.

| LONDON. Sept. 26.-The miasma Of
press and police mendacity which arose
on the arrest of the lyman gang having
partially cleared off, it seems now pos
sible. to get some reasonable view of
what the facts may be. During the
three weeks that have elapsed since
Tynan's arrest the burden of proof has
| Increasingly tended toward the con-
viction that the whole affair is police
rather than a political conspiracy, and
it is thought that the arrests at Rotter-
Gam, Glasgow and Boulogne were OPP
perfume to the Cars arrival in Scot
land and his visit to France, but
the connection Of lyman, Kearney
and Bell or Ivory with the plot has
been tracked their alleged association
With American and European nihilists
| investigated, their sources of supplies
inquired into, and their connection with
/ the resurgence Of militant Fenianism
| in Ireland ventilated. The result OF
these inquiries is that neither the au-
! thorities nor Independent research can
| connect the prisoners with the new Fe-
man societies in Ireland, nor in the re-
| motest way with any nihilist or an
archist group in Europe.
| The abundance of money which the
| members of the gang could dispose of
| has pointed to two sources the Brit
| ish secret service fund and the too
| trustful Irish-American associations.
| The English civil service estimates for
| the current fiscal year, put at $50, 900
| for secret service" are known to have
been increased already by drafts on the
| treasury for about 10000.
Proof which has been obtained that
both lyman and Haines were in Lon
don at the end of 1895 lends force to
the suspicion that the first lines Of con-
spracy were then laid.
| Kearney has not the same odium of
police agent attached to him. He gets
the credit of being dupe and q dyna-
mite criminal-not an agent procura-
! teur.
| AS - the participation of the Rus
/ sian fdnldsts in the plot it is beyond
credit. No common point fraternity
| exists between the small group of nihi-
lists here and the Irish dynamiters.
Long before Stepniak died the Russian
| exile party had repudiated the associ-
alton party. Nor had they money TO
work out any militant schemes they
might conceive. There is no dynamite
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About the extradition of lyman if
the English Government continues to
press for his being handed over, there
will be trial and conviction under the
Explosives Act at Old Bailey and sub
sequent release. The last dynamite
gang who came from New York in 1887
raised a sensation and got sentenced to
penal SerVitude, We're upon conviction
quickly set free and deported to the
United States. Their release, they not
being Irish political prisoners, was eff
| fected without drawing the attention
of the country or Parliament.
| There are still in penal servitude
| three of the Phoenix Park murderers,
| Fitzpatrick. alias Skin theGoat'';
Lawrence Hanlon and Joe Mullett, one
| of whom could tell something of Ty-
| mans part in the affair if lyman was
| put on trial for the crime. lyman will
| not be tried, nor has the speech made
| for the prosecution of Ivory in the Bow
| street Police Court on Thursday con-
verted any Of the doubters to the belief
| that there has been genuine dynamite
| conspiracy.
| The fact has been learned that no
conclusive change in the treatment of
| the Porte by the European Powers will
| De NlSlDle until AFTER lHe 11dT NlSiL "
Paris. Lord Salisbury has determined
| upon no line of treatment of the Sui
tan, and the council of ambassadors
will continue. The deposition of the
Sultan with the appointment of a sue
cessor under the sanction Of the Powers
would be equivalent to the proposed
| European protectorate. There is high
authority for stating that Just prior
| TO going to Balmoral the Car caused
his ambassador, NJ Nelidoff, to report TO
! him specially on the Sultans moral and
| mental condition. The request pointed
| to a consideration of the questions
whether Abdul Hamid could be trusted
| to reign quietly until new conditions,
| or must be deposed.
! Despite the rainy weather which has
prevailed at Balmoral since the arrival
of the Czar and Czarina, the Queen and
the Russian Empress have driven out
| together several times, and indulged In
| long confidential consultations.
The Admiralty chiefs, in concert with
the War Office authorities, have had
under consideration the operations that
might be necessary for the forcing of
the straits and the occupation OF Con-
stantinople. 1t is understood that the
passage of the Dardanelles is considered
as easy, involving small proDable loss OF
life, and none in ships, but Lord VOL
seley is said to think that Constanti-
nople could be destroyed by the fleet and
the Sultan's palace held by force OF
marines, but no orderly occupation
preserving the city from anarchy could
be effected without a force of 4O,0O0-
No such English expedition is.withln the
bounds of possibility, but an Anglo
Italian expedition is.
The Cars time at Balmoral is mainly
devoted to Devastating, grouse shoot
ing in arranged batteries and to billiard
playing. When he is not interested in
these or other amusements he is sup
posed to be concerned with politics.
J. j. Collins, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
here, has been commanded to take the
testimony of Mrs. Langtry in connec-
ton with a divorce which is pending in
California.