The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-30
NUMBER ONE NABBED.
THE NOTORIOUS P. lyman
ARRESTED IN FRANCE.
Phoenix-Park Murdcrer-Taken on an Old
Warrant and Death Likely to be His Fate
Three Other Dynamiters in the British
~Toils-Another Plot.

LONDON, Sept, .5.-Saturday the
police OF this city caused the arrest at
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, Of the no.
torious 2. j. T. lyman, the No. l" of
the Phoenix park tragedy, at Glasgow
OF edward Bell, q young American,
and at Rotterdam. Holland, Of j. Wal
lace and John F. Kearney, and now it
is claimed that Scotland Yard has
prevented the carrying out of a wide
spread dynamite plot. 1t is claimed
that at Rotterdam the police found a
number Of Internal machines and
much dynamite, as we'll as letters
which will incriminate a number of
people.
lyman was arrested on a warrant
issued from Scotland in 1882, which
charged him with completely in the
murder Of Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Thomas H. Burke in Phoenix
park, Dublin, in that year. He landed
at Genoa last month and went to
Paris, where he met several members
OF the Irish dynamite faction. Then
he went to Boulogne, where he open
ly expressed his Feaian views. His
movements had been closely watched
n at 4 o'clock yesterday morning a
local comlnissary of police and an
English detective, with a cooked re-
volver, broke into his room and ar
rested him. discriminating papers
were found and he was placed in a
cell for extradition proceedings.
lyman was arraigned at Boulogne
this morning before the deputy police
prosecutor. The PROCEEDINGS were
confined to furnishing evidence of the
arrest and the establishment of the
Identity of the prisoner, which the
latter fully admitted. Two Scotland
Yard detectives were present and the
prisoner was remanded and taken to
the town jail, while awaiting the ar
rival from London of the documents
necessary for his extradition. lyman,
who seems to have had no idea that
he was Swallowed by English de-
tectives. feels his position keenly. He
told his captors that he knew that
capital punishment awaited him if he
was handed over to the representa-
tlves OF the British government 1t
appears that he, during lis CONT
mental tour, passed himself off as q
queens messenger, o. royal courier,
and claimed that Bell, who was tray
cling with him, was his secretary. He
asserted that they were on their way
to Copenhagen with an autograph let
ter from Queen Victoria.
During his stay at Boulogne, lyman
showed every evidence Of being in
possession Of plenty of money and
having large funds to draw upon. He
lived well and his staple beverage
was champagne, according to one
account. The Globes advices from
Boulogne are that his disguise was
almost complete, he having shaved off
his beard and otherwise changed his
appearance.
Bell had plenty Of money in his
pocket when arrested, but no ex-
plosives were found in his room. At
his hotel he described himself as an
American tourist and he looked the
part to perfection. He, the police
reported, received a telegram from
lyman giving the latter's address and
the address OF the other man taken
into custody.
Bell, who was arrested at Glasgow,
was brought here and arraigned at
the Central police court and, after the
usual formalities was remanded until
Wednesday.
The police officials claim to have
been cognizant for some time of the
existence of a fresh dynamite cou-
spiracy, and there is no reason to
doubt that the information in the
possession of Scotland Yard authori-
ties is of strong character.
AN E1-PRIsoNER AS A SPY.
The Globe, " hich has close relations
with the government, in a long lead
ing editorial article, intimates that
the arrests were made on information
received from one of the recently re-
leased Irish political prisoners. It is
added this man also furnished the au-
thorities with valuable evidence in re-
lation to the Clan-na-Gael, and it is
further stated that the government
recently released several prisoners so
as not to furnish an exact clew to the
source of its information.
One of the most notorious Fenian
leaders, it is also said, arrived in
Great Britain from the United States
some onths ago, and the Globe at
that time published an article about
his presence, pointing out that there
was a general revival of Fenianism in
progress. AS a result Of these dis
closures, the Globe claims, the Fenian
leader returned to the United St ates.
1t was the Globe which first identi-
fed the second man arrested at Rot
terdam as John +. Kea1ney of New
York, who is charged with having
been concerned in blowing up the
Glasgow gas works in 1892, for which
Terence McDermott and others are
now serving life terms in Portland
prison. Kearney escaped to New
York and, it was said at the time. his
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