The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-18
Declares There Was q FtnIan Plot Carried
Out BY Tho CIan-na-GasL
DALLMAN FURNISHED THE DYNAMITE.
Conspiracy Said 10 Hare Begun In Tom Moore.
Hall, New York Negotiations Then Transferred
10 Philadelphia -monsy and Tickets Glnn

Buffalo, n. Y. May -1S.--Inspector
John w. Murray, the famous detective
OF the Dominion. has run down the past
of John Nolin and John Walsh, two OF
the three alleged Thorold dynamiters,
and has woven a web Of evidence so
that 1t seems TO bind Karl Dallman,
The third prisoner. tightly TO the other
two. According TO Inspector Murray
the blowing up of Lock "A on the We'll
land canal was Fenian plot. carried
out through members of a lodge Of
the Clan-na-Gael Dallman is regarded
as the chief of the three prisoners. The
government declares he gave the dyna-
mite. the fuses and the telescopes to
the other two.
The most interesting features OF the
long story told by the inspector while
in Buffalo on his return trip to Toron-
TO are as follows:
About April 10 Nolin received COM
munication from lodge known in Sc
cret circles as the Napper Tandy Club,
a Clan-na-Gael organization In the ex-
ecutive or inner council OF the Fenians.
The inspector says 1t met at Tom
Moores hall in New York city. Walsh
and Nolin, he says. both were MEM
bers Of the Napper Tandy. Nolin's i'm
structions sent him in Richmond were
for him 10 go TO Washington get John
Walsh and go 20 Philadelphia. where
the two were 10 meet a third man. who
would give them further instructions
as TO what TO do.
NoIin and Walsh went TO Philadel-
phia, where they met a stranger who
handed Nolin 800 and gave him two
railroad tickets to Buffalo. The stran-
ger directed Noliu and Walsh to leave
the same night, and on arrival at bur.
falo go 10 the Stafford House. where
they were 10 register as John Smith OF
New York and Thomas Moore OF
Washington. and be met by man who
would prove his identity. The men 60
10 Buffalo on Sunday, April 10, and
shortly after reaching their room
were Joined by the third man, who in
troduced himself as Dallman, and af-
terwards registered as Karl Dallman.
The following morning Dallman gave
10 Nolin and Walsh canvas grips or
telescopes. In each OF these was about
so pounds OF dynamite mixed 10 about
the consistency OF dough. Fuses were
with each. but not connected at the
time. Nolin. Walsh and Dalman took
a. tfolitN ~ 4NldEdrd ais. Later fney
took n Grand Trunk train across Sus-
pension Bridge, leaving 1t at Merriton,
Canada, and went thence TO Thorod.
Inspector Murray says Dallman show
ed Nolin and Walsh the spot TO place
the dynamite.
The story tells of changes of abode
made by the trip up TO the Goth, and
continues:
Walsh took dynamite into Canada.
AT 3.15 o'clock on Friday afternoon
April 90 he carried one of the bags Of
dynamite over. and at l o'clock on
Saturday afternoon he carried the
other bag over. on Saturday night af-
ter the explosion Nolin and Walsh were
to take the train for Buffalo and were
given money by Dallman.
Asked where Dallman came from. In
spector Murray said: For the present
all care to say is We have been credi-
bly, informed, but have no positive
proof. that he comes from Massachu-
setts."