The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-15
DYNAMITE PLOT NIPPED.
Internal Machines Captured by
the Police of Rotterdam.
lyman AND BELL ARRAIGNED.
One of the Men Arrested Is Believed to
be a New Yorker Named j. F. Kearney.
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lyman Passed Himself or as a Queens
Courier.
LONDON, Sept 15.-It Is generally be-
lieved here that the police, by the arrests
of Edward Bell at Glasgow on Saturday,
]. Wallace and John f. Kearney at Rot
terdam, and p, J. p. lyman ("No. 1') at
Boulogne-sur- Mer, France, have nipped q
widespread dynamite plot In the bud. At
Rotterdam in addition to arresting Wal
lace and Kearney, the police captured q
number Of internal machines and q guam
tity of correspondence, which is said to
incriminate number of people.
A semi-official communication upon the
subject Of tho arrests was issued yester-
day afternoon. 1t says: "There has been,
within the full knowledge of the SEQ otland
Yard officials for some time past, a gang
busily engaged in America in preparing
the ratilications for an extensive and dia-
bolical plot to perpetuate u dynamite out
rage in this country and establish a reign
of terror Gradually and quietly COM
plete net work was drawn around the
plotters, and the fact being known that
they were in intimate communication
with prominent Russian nihilists in the
United States enabled the police to pur-
sue, investigate and discover on what is
believed to be absolute evidence that on
the recent developments of the scheme
aimed at an outrage on the czar upon the
occasion of his visit to England The
emissaries Of Scotland Yard, however,
dogged their every movement
Bell was arraigned at the central police
court yesterday and, after the usual for
malities had been gone through with, tho
prisoner was remanded until Wednesday
next. The alleged dynamiter, who seemed
cool and uncOncerned, was handcuffcd
while in court and guarded by two spcci-
ally detailed policemen. The prisoner
has very little to say about his being taken
into custody. The only information which
he has thus far vouchsufed Is that he is not
British subject.
A dispatch from Boulogne-sur- Mer says
that lyman was arraigned there yesterday
before the deputy police prosecutor. The
proceedings were confined to furnishing
evidence of the arrest and the establish
ment of the identity of the prisoner, which
the latter fully admitted. Two Scotland
Yard detectives were present at these for
malities and eventually tho prisoner was
remanded and taken to the town Jail,
while awaiting the arrival from London
of the documents necessary to bring about
his extradition.
1t appears that lyman, during his con-
tinontal tour, passed himself off as q
queens messenger or royal courier, and
said that Bell, who was travelling with
him, was his secretary. lyman asserted
that they were on their way to Copen-
hagen with an autograph letter from
Queen Victoria to the car. During his
stay at Boulogno Tynan showed every
evidence of being in possession of plenty
of money and of having large funds to
draw upon. He lived well, and his staple
beverage was champagne
Dispatches received from Brussels say
that Information obtained there from reli-
able sources indicates that the dynamiters
whose laboratory was discovered at Ant
worp were not Fenians but anarchists,
whose aim was directed against the car,
and it is known that the police of Antwerp
were informed by the Scotland Yard
that a plot was in preparation
to try to assassinate the car in London,
hence the discovery of the dynamite bomb
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appears, had already been manufactured,
and the police believe that one of the con-
spirators, who is believed to have fled to
Breslau, has taken several Internal ma
chimes with him.
The police here now admit that the man
arrested at Rotterdam, whose name was
first given as Wallace, is, in fact, John f.
Kearney of Now York. Edward Bell,
when arrested ut Glasgow, had GlOO in his
purse
The secretary of the Great Britain Am
uesty association, speaking of the arrest
of lyman, says that they will afford lyman
means for his defense, but that he will
have no sympathy if he has been guilty of
any recent conspiracy
Tynan's mother and her son, who are
living at Kingstown, near Dublin, declare
that they never knew of his movements
md that they supposed he was canvaSsing
IN the United States. His mother was
to go tc New York to see him.
lyman spent Saturday evening in tho
bar of the hotel, drinking and standing
or drinks freely and talking politics. Ho
'etired to bod intoxicated ut 2 o'clock in
,he morning He was still under the in
luence of drink when he was arrested and
le assumed his innocence till Detective
nSDert1r w QlSh reCDuntDu to nm all re-