Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-02

| AhS5 LILY sovereign ACdlth, Win
ether loyal and thirsty ''undergrads'
of Trinity. When L came out of my
bedroom next morning found the fol
| lowing pleasant letter awaiting me:
| Head Police Office, Lower Castle Yard
| Dear Sir: 1t has come to the knowledge
of the authorities that you recently con-
| veyed bag containing a dangerous and
| unlawful article to a house in York street
| 1t is hoped that ttS< was done in ignorance
| bur to avoid unpleasant CONSEQUENCES
| three p m tomorrow. and state all you
| know Of the affair. The police have in
tempt to escape Yours, etc,
| 1T. PHALLON, Inspector. r. l. c.
/ was thunderstruck- This came of
| consortirg with Fenians and females.
/ reflected that smuggling potheen was
not, after all, hanging matter. In
| deed, was rather surprised that the
| detective police should notice it at all.
| 1t was the business of the excisemen
1 or ''gaugers.'
| They must have little to do at the
| CASTLE 1 thought. However, had
better face the music"
At the appointed time presented
myself at the Irish Scotland Yard.
phaIlon received me civilly enough.
and conducted me to a room where a
| couple of magistrates and Mr.. Phil
| lipson, the crown solicitor. were seated.
| This is breaking a butterfly on a
| wheel in earnest 1 said to myself.
"What a fuss about a jar of whisky"
/ Mr. - said the senior magis-
trate, sit is my duty to warn you that
you need not answer the questions we
are about to put to you. You might
have been here as a prisoner, but we
hope you are an innocent agent of this
atrocious conspiracy. You can, think,
best prove your innocence by comslet
| candor. But, remember, your stat. :
Inent may be used against yourself"
ASK what you like" I replied; Il
have had any share in any 'atrocious
conspiracy
1--WE hope not said my interrogation;
sat least not a guilty one. However,
you will not deny having carried Il
black bag which you received from a
young woman at T-'s circulating
| library in Kingstown, to 10 York street.
| the day before yesterday"
Certainly not" 1 answered. 1.-THE
! young lady asked me to do trifing
commission for her, and / did it,
81 ask you," said the magistrate, SOL
| EMMY, did you know the contents of
| that bag?'
1 hesitated, but I did not think it
right, or perhaps wise, to tell a lie, SO 1
| said, with a smile:
'Yes, sir; 1 knew the contents of the
| bag. Very good stuff it was, too. l
hope his royal highness will get some
before he leaves Ireland"
"Silence. SIR" cried the magistrates
| together, then the senior said:
81 think we may stop the examina-
| ton and commit this wretched youth,
| who glories in his guilt. to Kilmainham.
He actually smiles at crime that
| might have resulted in death and de-
| struction.''
''Gentlemen," I cried, Indignantly,
surely you will not send me to prison
| for such trihe? I did wrong, sup
| pose, but was reared in Sligo, where
! every man, woman and child-ma gis-
| trates and ministers Observation-Disclosures
| potheen. To circumvent the gauger,
| by carrying it to a friend, is considered
an act of piety and charity, which no
| Christian man would refuse to perform.
! The British empire will not come to an
end because half crown duty has not
been paid on quart of good liquor.
l will pay the sum three times over.
and a fine as well. But you have no right
to send me to a gaol-at least in this
| hole-and-corner manner. 1 demand a
| public examination and legal assist
ance."
| The magistrates looked greatly re-
lieved. Tell us plainly what you sup
| posed was in the bag" said the inquisi-
tor, mildly.
"a quart of potheen, or Illicit
| whisky 1 replied. 'And say again
| that wish his royal highness had some
If he once tasted it, / am sure he would
never send subject to Jail for making
or carrying or drinking it,"
would you be surprised to hear
that your friends jar of potheen was
a nitro glycerine bomb, intended to
have been flung into the princes car
| rage by the Fenian b, alias Sander
son?'' asked the magistrate.
1 nearly tainted with horror "And
who is Ellen Maguire?" gasped.
''B-'s wife" said Detective Phallon,
'as dangerous an anarchist as there is
in Europe. She carries the weapons of
the conspirators, and sometimes per-
suades young fools, who admire her
black eyes. to help her.
The serpent!" exclaimed 81 will
give evidence against her with pleas
ure. and will go to see her hanged. ]
slept with that awful thing under my
pillowi 1t might have blown me tc
pieces"
And half Kingstown as WELL" said
the officer. "a fall or even a shake
might have done it. But we have got
to catch Mr.. and Mrs. b yet.
fear they are in France by this time
1t appeared that the police. having
obtained news of the plot in the usual
way Through an informer), searched
the room in York street shortly after !
delivered the internal machine. They
found the bomb; but B, alias Sand
erson. having stepped out to a neighbor.
ing bar, saw the officers. OWNED Their