The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-14
BIG BOMB PLOT.
English Officials Think They've
Nipped a Dynamite Plot
Was to Include Queen Victoria
and the Czar.
INTERNAL MACHINES.
Many Found By the Police In
Their Search.
Correspondence FOnnd Showing
Plots Against Queens Life.

lCOpyr1gnC 1886 Dy the ASSOCl6lG0
Press.
London, Sept. 14.-It is generally be-
Heved here that the police, by the ar
rests of Edward Bell of Glasgow on
Saturday. J. Wallace and John F.Kear-
ney at Rotterdam, and P. J. P lyman
ONO. - atBoulOgne-Sur-M -Mer, France,
have nipped a wide spread dynamite
plot in the bud.
At Rotterdam, in addition to arrest
ing Wallace and Kearney, the police
captured a number of Internal ma
chimes and a quantity of correspond
ence which is said to incriminate
number of people and which may result
in further arrests in the near future.
Bell was arraigned at the Central pO-
lice court today and, after the usual
fOrmalities had been gone through with
the prisoner was remanded until We'd
nesday next. The alleged dynamiter
who seemed cool and uncOncerned, was
handcuffed while in court and guarded
by two especially detailed policemen.
The Globe, which has close relations
with the government, in a. leading edi-
tOrial article this afternoon, intimates
that the arrests were made on informa-
ton received from one of the recently
released Irish political prisoners. 1t is
alleged that this man has also furnish
ed the authorities with valuable evil
dence in relation to the CIan-Na Gael,
and it is further stated that the gov
ernment recently released several
prisoners so as not to furnish an exact
clue 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 a few
months ago and the Globe at that time
published an article about his presence,
pointing out that there was general
revival of Fenianism in progress
As a result of these disclosures, the
Globe claims, the Fenian leader alluded
to. hastily returned to the United
States.
Incidentally it was the Globe which
first proclaimed the identity of the sec
ond man arrested at Rotterdam as be
ing John F. kearney of New York who
is charged with having been concerned
in blowing up the Glasgow gas works
IN 1892, a deed for which Terrence Nc
DermOtt and others are now serving
sentences of Imprisonment for life in
Portland prison.
Kearney escaped to New York and
it was said at the time his escape was
winked at by the highest authorities.
1t was further alleged that it was
Kearney who under the pretense of
friendship, led Phelan into the trap
when Short, the butcher, nearly stab
bed Phelan of Kansas City to death in
O'DOnOVan ROssa'S office in Chambers
street New York
Kearney may now be charged with
the Glasgow outrage as well as with
participating in the alleged present
movement.
A dispatch from Boulegne-S -Sur-Mer
to the Associated Press, says that Ty-
nan was arraigned there this morning
before the deputy police prosecutor
The proceedings We're confined to fur
nishing evidence of the arrest and the
establishment of the identity of the
prisoner, which the latter fully ad-
mitted. Two Scotland yard detectives
were present at these formalities, and
eventually, the prisoner was remanded
and taken to the town Jail while
awaiting the arrival from London of
the documents necessary to bring about
his eXtTaCitiOn.
It appears that lyman during his con-
tinental tour passed himself off as q
queens messenger, or royal courier, and
claimed that Bell, who was travelling
with him. was his secretary lyman as
serted that they were en- route to CO.
penhagen with an autograph letter
from Queen Victoria.
During his stay at BOulogne-Sur-M -Mer
lyman showed every evidence of being
in possession of plenty of money and
of having large funds to draw upon.
He lived we'll and his staple beverage
was champagne, according to one ac-
count of the affair.
The Globes advices from BouIogne-
Sur-Ne say that Tynan'S disguise was
almost complete. He had shaved off his
beard and had otherwise changed his
appearance
Bell, further particulars show, also
had plenty of money in his pockets
when arrested, but no explosives were
found in his room
At his hotel, Bell described himself
the part to perfection.
A Scotland Yard official. on the inter
view published in The Sun this after
noon said that the authorities for many
months have been aware that a numebr
of the most reckless and desperate dyn-
amiters in the United States had been
contemplating a raid on English cen
tres particularly on London. Therefore
the official added, vigilance was redOu-
bled both in Great Britain and Ameri-
ca. However, several of the alleged
cOnsipratOrs succeeded in evading the
detectives and reached different parts
of Europe.
They were, it is claimed, provided
with an abundance of money, and lived
luxuriously at hotels on the continent.
They did not make an effort to disguise
the character of their mission. lyman,
according to the Scotland Yard men. has
been at BoulOgne- Sur -Ner for more
~ drunk and boasting of the revenge
he would wreak when his plans were
perfected.
A later dispatch to the Associated
Press says that from information in
the possession of the police of the city,
spirators were planning an outbreak to
occur while the cZar and czarina visited
the queen at Ba1mOral.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Antwerp states that two Irish
Fenians said to be naturalized Ameri-
can citizens arrived there three weeks
ago and rented a house in the suburbs
of Berchem- On Saturday the dispatch
continues: The house was surrounded
by Belgian police. But when the build
ing was entered it was found that its
occupants were gone A laboratory.
however, was discovered, fully fitted
with appliances and materials for the
r71a1rIfacf1ra of bombs and explosives