The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-15
The ddea ay Eaele guesaay ornuo september 1886

been plans for dynamite outrages N
Guiding an attempt upon the life o.
| Queen Victoria.
THE POLICE WERE ION"
| A semi-official communication upor
the subject OF the recent arrests of al
legged dynamite conspirators was is
sued this afternoon 1t says:
There has been within the full
knowledge of the Scotland Yard officials
for some time past a gang OF despera-
does busiIy engaged in America pre-
pairing the ramifcations Tor an exten-
sive and diabo,ical plot to perpetrate a
dynamite outrage in this country and
establish reign Of terror. Chief In
| spector Melville, who had 50 prominent
a part in tracing and arresting the
Fenians, has been the head OF the Scot
land Yard ARRANGEMENTS for cnecknat-
ing the present conspirators. Gradual
~ and quietly complete network was
drawn around the plotcers and, the fact
being known that they were m int
mate communication with RUSSIAN
NfhilistS in the United States. enabled
the police to pursue, investigate and
discover. on what IS believed 10 be ab-
soluee evidence, that one OF the most
recent developments OF the scheme
aimed at an outrage on the car on the
occasion OF his visit TO England The
prime movers were Fenians in America
and when the plot had been carried as
far as possible they, lyman and their
chief agents, were dispatched to Eu-
rope to consumate the designs adopted.
Every pnecaution was taken in ship
ping them separately and by different
routes. The emissaries of Scotland
Yard, however, logged their every
movement"
The semi-officia1 communication then
deals with the arrests, and the capture
OF all the appliances, documents, etc.,
and continues:
ut was arranged that Bell should go
TO Glasgow, to superintend a series Of
outrageS in Scotland, the explosives
necessary being sent from Belgium as
required. Bell had in his pocket be-
tween 800 pounds and 400 pounds and
American letters of credit.
"Devaney, McCulioch and McCand,
three released dynamiters who are now
in Glasgow, have all been closely shad-
owed since they We're released from
prison. In 1895 McCand visited America.
1t is considered probable that BEN will
soon be removed from Glasgow TO
London"
IRISH PRISONERS
The Times this morning publishes a
long letter from H. H. Howarth, COM
planning of the release of the Irish polit-
lead prisoners. He points out that sta
ustics show that the mortality in lunacy
prisons is less than of people outside of
them, and aske: us the madness real
or feigned."
Continuing, he says: "As a newspa-
per openly said, the case is, the HFber-
mans are acting
The home secretary will allow that
IT Is unwise to let a wild, Irish screech
go from one end of the land to the other.
about the inhumanity of English justice
ana IL Is unwiSe 10 encourage the over
heated feeling of Americans toward
Great Britain on the pround that we
treat our prisoners with barbarity"
In conclusion Mr.. Howarth asks the
government to make a plain statement
or the facts relative to the release of
the Irish political prisoners.
WOMAN IN THE CASE.
A later dispatch from Brussels to the
Assocda ted Press shows that there was
a woman connected with the arrested
conspirators. The house at Berchem,
pne SuDurD or Antwerp where the police
found laboratory fully fitted with APP
pliances, was hired by a woman and
the police are now searching for her.
The police also found in the house.
finger and fott in-prints in the clay used
by the bomb makers in faShioning the
monlds for their bombs. 1t is believed
that this fact will serve to identify the
men who occupied the house and con-
meet the right person with this feature
of the great conspiracy.
London, Sept. 1.-THE police here
now admit that the man arrested at
Rotterdam, whose name was first given
as Wallace. lis in fact John +. Kearney,
OF New York
Edward Bell, when arrested at Glas-
gov, had $50 pounds in mis- purse
In conn eotion with the arrest OF
lyman at Boulogne, this mans rela-
tlyeS are being Swallowed at Kingston