The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-16
DIR. lyman. of ''No. L" NotOricty, Is Al
legged to Have COuspired Openly in
the Saloons of New York.
ENGLISHMEN STIRRED UP
WHILE FRESHMEN CONDEMN THE
ARRESTS AS A PLOT AGAINST ERIN.
Not One Cent VIII Be Contributed to
the Defense of the COnspiratOrs
-Tynan's Brother Talks.


editorial this morning, commenting at
length on the arrests at Boulogne, Glasgow
and Rotterdam of persons suspected of
completely in a dynamite plot, in the course
of which it says: Unless the police have
committed a succession of incredible blum
ders, we are in the presence of a conspiracy
of the same type as that for which DIR.
Gallagher was sentenced. AS we have all
along contended, the irreconcilables are
irreconcilable still, and still remain muir
derouS enough in their intent and strong
enough in numbers to organize and pay for
complicated and costly conspiracy against
Great Britain. The lessons to be drawn are
plain enough, and the nation may be left
to draw for itself at the moment John
Daily is enjoying triumphal receptions from
his fellow countrymen. DR.. Spence Wat
son. president of the Society of the Friends
of Russian Freedom, dscredits the notion
of a Fenian and Nihilist alliance. On the
whole we are inclined to agree with him.
Our Brussels correspondent hears that the
Antwerp bomb factory has cosmopolitan
aims, but there does not appear much evil
dence to support this view
The Chronicle, in it's editorial on the SUBJ
ject points out that the new conspiracy has
no root in Ireland, and that it is not even
suggested by the police that the persons
arrested have any connection with any
ganization, open or secret. THE plot has
been hatched,' continues the Chronicle, ''in
the drinking saloons of New York and so
openly and careleSSly that every detail was
known to the police from the inception of
the scheme. lyman might as we'll have
proclaimed the plot from the house tops.
1t is all very strange, and we want more
light
Two thousand pounds sterling was found
upon the persons arrested at Berchem (the
suburb of Antwerp, where the dynamite
factory was situated). The police suspect
fifteen persons in various European capitals
of completely with the Berchem factory.
Later information points to an attempt
upon the life of the Car having been
planned at Breslau.
The correspondent Of the Chronicle at
Paris says in a dispatch to that paper:
lyman has been a familiar figure here off
and on for decade. 1 have seen him re-
peatedly, and l cannot bring myself to
believe that this melodramatic capture
might not have been effected years ago.
HENRI ROCHEFORTS VIEWS.
The Daily Newss Paris correspondent
says: M Henri Rochefort, editor of l. In
transigeant, does not believe that lyman
will be extradited, but he points out that
the rumor that the Gar was a marked
man would make it hard to refuse ex-
tradition if there were a pri1na facie case
against him. 1t would not be surprising"
says NJ. Rochefort, ''if the German Emperor
should rush to Paris to show his Willingness
to unite with the Car and President Faure
in crushing the red monster of anarchism.'
More attention is being paid here to the
details of the alleged dynamite conspiracy
than to any other subject, not excepting the
situation in Turkey. Those who do not par
t1c1pate in the horror protested by the au-
thorities over the diabolical details of the
plot which they are claiming with sensa-
tional impressveness to have unearthed
find sufficient entertainment in the express
SionS of skeptcsm.
A representative of the press has made
iy,nr frioe
methods pursued in shadowing the plotters
and as to how it happened that the au-
thorities We're SO well informed of the plans
of the Dlotters in advance. 1t was stated
there that the work had been done in the
United States by the Pinkerton agency,
who had for years forwarded every week
the fullest reports of every meeting of any
revolutionary body in the United States
particularly in Chicago and New York. The
espionage maintained on gatherings in
those two cities is remarkably complete.
There is full file in Scotland Yard of all
resolutions, documents, etc, pertaining to
the gatherings, and full descriptions of the
members and their actions. Though the
action of the police in these cases was pre-
cipitated, owing to the heavy drinking and
foolish talking of lyman, there has been
the greatest possible activity on their part
since in order to round up the minor plot
tiers, who have been in touch with lyman
and the others. 1t is for this reason that
Chief Inspector Melville, of Scotland Yard,
suit of dynamiter plotters. and Inspector
Quinn, have gone to the continent, and In
ltical section of the Dublin police, is on his
way to London. Chief Inspector Melville
will also direct the search for bombs,
which the authorities allege were manu-
featured at Bercham, near Antwerp. None
of these has yet been discovered however.
It is a notable fact that the police au-
thOritieS of Paris express great scorn for
the idea that there was any connection
between any plot that lyman may have
concOcted and an attempt the life of
the Car. The elaborate tale of collision
between the Fenians and continental An
archists and Russian Nihilists is laughed
at in Paris, although the authorities of
Scotland Yard are using this story as much
as they possibly can in order to influence
the French authorities to surrender lyman.
The suspicion is broadly limited at that the
story of lyman being implicated in a plot
against the person of the Car was con-
cocted for no other purpose than to appeal
to the political sympathy of France towards
Russia to effect consent to the extradi-
tiCn of lyman. 1t is perfectly evident that
Scotland Yard itself shares the French view
of the alleged Fenian- Nihilist combination,
atoms already MADE to guard the Car upon
his Forthcoming visit to London. The prep
arations are the same those usually
made upon the visit of any foreign SOW
ereign to London.
IRISHMEN ASTONISHED.
The Irish leaders in London and Dublin
regard the arrests of the alleged dynamite
plotters with CONSERVATION. A project has
been on foot ever since the adjournment of
Parliament to obtain the release of all the
irish political prisoners, a project which
was encouraged by the recent action of
the government in releasing from Portland
prison Dr. Thomas Gallagher, Albert G..
Whitehead. John Daily and Thomas Devany.
1t was intended to inaugurate great dem
onstration in behalf of the prisoners and
an agitation in the press. followed by a
fierce attack on the House of Commons in
January. The disclosures in connection
with the arrests are considered unfavorable
to the success of this plan.
In an interview the president of the
amnesty association says: The arrests
a matter of Indifference TO US except for
their probable effect the Irish move
ment. The followers of lyman the
enemies of Ireland, and this association will
not raise a penny for their defense. 1t
cannot compromise itself by any connection
with them
The Dublin Independent this morning
says: The so-called plot is more like u
plot against ireland. The release of some
of the Irish political prisoners accused of
dynamite offenses' had no sooner called
forth some protests in England than these
sensational arrests in connection with a
new plot are announced. We emphatically
protest against the deliberate effort being
made to turn this plot against Ireland and
the unfortunates now in prison.
A dispatch from Boulogne-sur- Mer saws
that lyman taken before the public
prosecutor there this afternoon and was
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