The record-union., 1896-09-15
By the Placing Under Arrest Of lyman,
Bell and Other COnspiratOrs.
The Prime Movers Said to be Fenians
in America,

Out, and the Time When the Plot
Was to be Carried Out the Occasion
of His Visit to Queen Victoria at
BaimOraI.
| LONDON, Sept. 14.-A communica-
tion of a semi-official character was is
sued this afternoon touching the arrest
| of the alleged dynamite conSpiratorS.
| The statement says, among other
| things, that the Scotland Yard officials
| have been aware for some time past
/ that a gang of deSDeradoeS have been
| engaged in America in preparing the
| details and arranging the ramifications
Of an extensive and diabolical plot to
| perpetrate a dynamite outrage in Eng
| land and establish a reign of terror.
! Chief Inspector Melville of the metro
politan police has had charge of the
| Scotland Yard arrangements for frus-
trating the designs of the conspirators,
| and gradually and with great secrecy
| drew a network around the plotters.
| The fact was known to the police that
| the cOnSpiratorS were in close communi-
| cation with prominent Russian NihilistS
| In the United States, and in view of this
| information We're enabled to discover
! upon almost undoubted evidence that
the conspirators had recently devel-
| oped scheme to perpetrate an outrage
upon the Car on the occasion of his
visit to England.
| The prime movers of the plot were Fe-
| mans in America, and when they had
carried their conspiracy as far as they
| could in the United States, lyman and
the other principal agents were sent to
| Europe to put the designs Of the plot
| ters into execution. They left America
as secretly as possible, coming by diff
| ferent routes. Their arrival was known
however, and their every movement
was dogged by the Scotland Yard de-
| tectiVeS.
| After treating of the arrests of the
| dynamiters and the capture by the po-
| lice of all of their documents, etc, the
communication adds that Bell was de-
| signed to go to Scotland Yard to direct
a series Of outrages there, the necessary
explosives to be sent him from Bel
gium as they might be required. When
| Bell was taken into custody he had be-
| tween $500 and f400 in cash upon his
| person, together with American letters
of credit
The Central News says that the plot
in which it is charged lyman, Bell and
/ Wallace We're implicat ted was hatched in
| the United States, and that it was wide
| spread in it's ramificationS, not only in
/ England, but in various Continental
\ countries. The conspiracy was started
| months ago, and although those con-
| nected with it thought they were work.
| ing with the utmost secrecy, so far as
| the authorities were concerned, there
| was among the plotters two or three
| agents of the British Government who
| kept the London police advised of every
| move that was made or proposed by the
| conspirators from the very inception of
| the plot.
The police here knew even the names
| of the men who were selected by the
| American revolutionary society to cause
| explosions here and on the Continent.
1t was we'll known that ever since the
1 defeat of the Irish home rule bill the
| physical force party had been active in
| the spread of it's propaganda, and steps
/ were taken at once to closely but Sc
cretly watch those who We're likely to
| enter into a conspiracy against the
| Government. Thus the plots Of the
| conspirators were learned, the spies in
the United States completely deluding
! the conspirators into the belief that
they We're bitter enemies of the Govern
| ment, and would go to any length to Sc
| cure the freedom of Ireland.
| 1t was learned that the plotters We're
! in cOlluSion with the Fenians, anarch-
| lists and nihilsts. The nihilists do not
appear to be very enthusiastic in freeing
Ireland from the British Government
/ but We're working for business to be
done on the Continent. The nihilists
| believed that the visit of the Gar to
| Balmoral and Paris were favorable oc-
| casions for their work The plotters in
| sisted, however, that a blow should
| first be struck at England. 1t is stated
| that Inspector Melville recently went to
| Paris, where he conferred with the po-
| lice as to the best methods of circum-
venting the designs of the nihilists. At
| that time the English papers were not
| aware of the existence of the plan, and
| in their comments upon the inspectors
/ journey to Paris they stated, while
pointing out the existence in London of
a large anarchist colony, that the Car
would, without doubt, be far safer in
England without any police protection
| than he would be in Paris with all the
| safeguards InaL HllSHl Ue adopted Dy
| the police of that city. The result of
the knowledge obtained by the police
does not appear to bear out the state
ments made by the newspapers.
/ 1t is stated that the conspirators
before they left the United States were
| taught how to mix chemicals so as to
make high explosives. and how to use
| clock work to cause explosions. The
| teacher was Russian professor
Through him the nihilists and Fenians
We're brought together, and it was due
to his efforts that the alliance between
them was entered into.
The police here in their investiga-
| tions early learned that the magazine
Of the plotters was located at Berceim,
a suburb of Antwerp, and when the
| plans for the arrests were complete the
authorities of that city were notified
and an attempt was made to arrest the
men in the house where the explosives
were stored. This, however, failed, but
it is almost certain that the two men,
Kearney and Haines, alias Wallace, who
! were arrested at Rotterdam, are the
Irishmen who lived in the house at Ber-
ceim.
| 1t has been learned that while lyman