The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-15
DYNAMITE PLOT NIPPED.
Internal Machines Captured by
the Police of Rotterdam.
lyman AND BELL ARRAIGNBD,

One of tho Men Arrested Is Believed To /
be a New Yorker Named j. II. Kearney.
lyman Passed Himself or as Queens |
Courier.
LONDON, Sept. 15-It is generally be-
lieved here that the police, by the arrests
of Edward Bell at Glasgow on Saturday
J. Wallace and John f. Kearney at Rot
terdam, and p. J. P. lyman Ono 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
number of Internal machines and guam
tity of correspondence, which is said to
lncriminate number of people.
A semi-ofiicial communication upon the
subject of the arrests was issued yester-
day afternoon. 1t says There has been,
within the full knowledge of the Scotland
Yard officials for some time past, a gang
husily engaged In America in preparing
the ratifcations for an extensive and dia-
bolical plot to perpetuate dynamite out
rage in this country and establish 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 nihiists 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 c3ar upon the
occasion of his visit to England Tho
emissaries of Scotland Yard, however,
dogged their every movement
l,11 4 t,N Nfvaul
court yesterday and, after the usual for
malitles had been gone through with, the
prisoner was remanded until Wednesday
next The alleged dynamiter, who seemed
cool and unconcerned, was handcuffed
while In court and guarded by two speci-
| ally detailed policemen. The prisoner
| has very little to say about his being taken
| into custody The only information which
/ he has thus far vouchsafed 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 We're present at these for
mallties, and eventually the prisoner was
remanded and taken 10 the town Jail,
| while awaiting the arrival from London
of the documents necessary 10 bring about
his extradition.
1t appears that lyman, during his con-
tinental tour, passed himself off as a
queen messenger, or royal courier and
said that Bell, who was travelling with
him, was his secretary. lyman asserted
that they We're on their way to Copen-
hagen with an autograph letter from
Queen Victoria to the car, During his
stay at Boulogne lyman showed every
evidence of being in possession of plenty
! of money and of having large funds to
I 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
werp were not Fenians, but anarchists
whose aim was directed against the cZar,
and 1t is known that the police of Antwerp
were informed by the Scotland Yard
authorities that n plot was in preparation
to try TO assassinate the czar in London,
hence the discovery of the dynamite bomb
laboratory at Antwerp. Many bombs, it
appears, had already been manufactured,
and the police believe that one of the con-
spirators, who is believed to have fled &c
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 New York. Edward Bell
when arrested at Glasgow, had El00 in his
purse.
The secretary of the Great Britain Am.
nesty 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 art
living at KingStOwn near Dublin, declare
that they never knew of his movements
and that they supposed he was canvassinl
in the United States His mother wai
preparing to go to New York to see him
lyman spent Saturday evening in the
bar of the hotel, drinking and standing
for drinks freely and talking politics, II,
retired to bed intoxicated at , o'clock In
the morning. He was still under the in
fluence of drink when he was arrested anC
he assumed his innocence till Detective
Inspector Walsh reeounted TO him all re
cent movements, whom he admitted his
identity.
The formalities of extradition in Ty
mans case will occupy fortnight
The Chronicle says: "The plot wa'
Matched 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 well have proclaimed the plot from the
house tops. 1t Is all very strange and We
want more lightg'
Two thousand pounds sterling wat
found upon the persons arrested al
Berchem (the suburb of Antwerp wher,
the dynamite factory was situated). Tn,