The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-29
THE PLOT AGAINST CANADA.
wELLaND CtNiL DIVA MITERS SENT
OvT Di THE fLAN-NA.GAELy
story Printed In Montreal Tell. Of Their
Movements In Thi, Country-Two Of Them
We're In THIS tiiy Early In the Year Said
70 Have Joined the south Brook..n Branch
Of the Amaigamatcd Engineers Expenses
Paid From Funds Raised by Maud Come,

We're In THIS CIV Early In the Year Said
70 Have Joined the south Brook.,n Branch
Of the Amalgamatcd Engineers Expenses
Paid From Funds Raised by Maud Come.
MONTREAL, Quebec. May ga sensational
| story is published here regarding Carl Dull
mann. j Nolan and John Walsh. now serving
life sentences in Kingston P"nitcntiary for at
temptinv 10 blow up a WcllHnd Canal lock on
April q, II l. alleged that two OF the men at
least were accredited agents of the Can-na-
| Gacl. As a result Of an Investigation mado by
par,ies l., the United states i, is asserted;
First The explosion wa, designed as a re-
rrisal against Canada for having sent troops to
South Africa
So ond The plot was conceived. instigated
ana carried through 10y orders oil inc executive
of the Clan-na-tiael
Third II was set on foot AZ the very moment
last autumn when all Canada was ringing with
enthusiasm over III" mobilization OF ue hrSt
contingent, sent by the Dominion to participate
in a war Of the Empir"
Fourth The cmis.arles Of the Clan-na-Gnel
were despatched from Ireland to America
almost simultaneously with the departure OF
the Sandman from Quebec,
Ffth-Thc cost of passage oil these eml"-
saries OF the Clan-na-tiacl was betrayed by a
subscription organizrd by Miss Maud Come, a
young woman who has been designated rs
''Th. Irish Joan of Arc and who has mada
several visits TO the United states in the IN
reres's Of III, physical force" section OF Irish
extremists.
Sixth-Their tickets we're purchased by ono
Fred j. Allan, who Is said 70 DO the recognized
head Of the Clan-na-Gael in Dublin
Seventh From the time of their landing In
America to their arrival in Canada, a few days
previous to the explosion-and probably since
Walsh and Nolan at least have been in constant
.commucicat on with the executive OF the tlan-
Na-Gacl and have been in receipt OF moneys
from that body.
The story goes on to saw that Nolan and 9
man named John Mernagh left the employ o.
the Dublin Tramways Company on Oct, u
the IRISH D1,ip Independent and was known In
Dublin as an Extremist OF the worsttype. It's
said that he was in q number OF dynami'ins
United States in 1873, 1923 and 1904 In the lat
ter year he took out his first papers for citizen
ship, but soon returned TO ireland.
OF Walsh not much information has been Sc
cured There is no doubt, however, that he be-
longcd to the same clique rs Nolan and that ne
was chosen by the executive or IN" Can-Na-
Gael to be one OF his ac2omplices in the CON
The four Conspirators, John Nolan, John
Walsh. John Mernagh and John Rowan sailed
from Liverpool for Philadelphia on NOV. l.,
1890. on the steamship khynlnnd. Rowan was
one OF Nolan'S pals in London. Nolan anu
Mernagh arrived at Mrs. Smiths Hotel, 25'
North Second street, Philadelphia, on Nov; 10,
last. They stated that they had Just arrived
from Ireland. and soon after obtained work III
Cramps shipyard IN the Quaker CITY They
were room mates. conducted theiuselve quietly
but were known even there As members Il IN"
Cnn-Na-Gael, and were not backward h dis
ClS-ing secret society afalrS
After n few months they moved to Washing
ton where they secured "niploylnent ana ne
next incident Is the death of Mernagh by
suicide in McIn"rney'S tavern. PIP \lnlh street,
Washington. on Monday March r. The dam
certificate states that Mernash had been u
resident of Washington for twomonths, that he
was shot ~ toe chest, that it was a cas-" OF
suicide. and that he was buried In Mount
Qlivet Cemetery. lii- funera. expenses we're
in PHILADELPHIA After Mernagh's death Walsh
went to Richmond. Va. but apparently only
stay we'd n very short time as he WtS ;;oph after
ward in Brooklyn and back in Philadelphla
Both Nolan and Walsh were members Of III"
Amalgama'od So,i"ty Of Engineers. lneN re-
ceived their clearanCeS from the Dublin branch
prior to leaving, and both became allied with
the South Brooklyn branch early this year,
The story printed here states that there Is no
intention 10 insinuate anything against IN"
Amalgamated Society OF hhGincero or 70 con
meet that society in any way with the plot. The
Amalgamated Society OF Engineers l. enllr'ly
~non-rol tiral and therefor" can have no con-
nection whatever with th!s cpns' tracy,
when Nolan Joined the South Brooklyn branch
Of the Amalgamated Society he received Pass
Book No. 81, and on April ), last, received from
John A sherman, the secretary, a transfer 10
the Philadelphia second branch Nolan had
mot Walsh in New York At John kcrrs New
Haven House. A. Peck Slip They aid not room
there.
on April 8. tho story goes on. Nolan was al
?57 North second street. Philadelphia. andther"
received a letter from lis vii" P.Ily, dated Isl
James street, Dublin. Tuc,dHy, March 20. 1900
This letter dealt principally win family mat
tiers. but incidentally an interesting Ugh, IL
thrown upon one ot' the methods employed by
the Irish extremists .
When RGdvard Kipling wrote The Mntinv OF
the Mavericks, dealing with the plotting oi IN"
Il" A. 4 " TO cause n mutiny ma briSh rrHl-
ment a good many people thought that the idea
was preposterouS and We're convince NAT
vice. II would seem. however, that kipling
was not so far wrong after all, for in the course
OF her letter to her husband, whom. she Will
probably never see again. Mrs. John Nolan
said
You saw Won would Ike to see Larry in the
Highlander. bat he wont give YOU the chance. as
he ha, Joined the ieomanry Hoping yop wont
SpiOn KOp him lie knows You are IN your
glory over the Boer He hopes they viii Mn
II IS every ones cry here
Mention Is mad of Fred Allen The secretary
OF the Lord Mayor of Dublin" as having been
connected with the sending out OF Moan and
Walsh as conS'irstorS to injure Canada for her
participation in the South African var When
inc ARRANGEMENTS NfIF Dftllk llhu' ~ Nll'
burial OF Mprnagh. th" Washington suicide, the
man who undert ,uk to get TIE executive Of M"
society to pay the funeral bill expressed the
opigion: Allen vi b" shocked when H. heats
this"
II Is alleged from the Information at hand
that an ADVANCEMENT was made prior to their
LEAVING Dublin for the maintenance by III"
executive of those IT, : behind b" the fur
passengers on he khvland tn" chief inter-
mediary between the executive" and thoS" left
h.h nd Wa one Larry ilan,uu or O'Iianlon
While in Washington Nolan told 4 friend that
he had received a letter from %lIanlou. and the
friend happened to remember a portion of us
contents lian,On wrote that the family
ARRANGEMENTS hnd been carried through IT
j. taking some time 10 set tie house IN order,
but we're getting Oh by degrees. slow but
sur.
The friend also remembers thar ilanlon mem
toned something about II man Cregan. or
Oregon, Who had been. arrested for brawling
with some soldiers and shouting for Kruger.
Uaulon described this man a. "A marty tor Ire
land and KrugAr combined
Mr. strong adds that in Brooklyn Nolan and
Walsh associated with on" D. B ltegan, the
author OF a patriotic ballad entitled. The Irish
Exile"
men MEN BiCkT\G STREETER.