Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-29
|BLAM[S GLANNA-GA[L
Evidence That Irish Society is Re-
sponsible For the Welland
Canal Affair.
Maud Come Said to Be Implicated
In the Conspiracy Tracing
the Plot.
Letters Found That Give Secrets
Away-Tammany and Bryan
Other News.

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Investigation ii is asserted that:
Il The explosion was designed az a
reprisal against Canada for having sent
troops to South Africa.
50. The plot was conceived, instigated
and carried thru by orders of the eNe-
cutve of the Clan ma Gael.
IS. 1t was set on foct at the Very mo-
ment last autumn when all Canada was
ringing With enthusiasm over the mobl-
lization of the first contingent sent by
the dominion to participate in war of
the empire.
Il. The. emisearies of the Clan-na-G Gael
were dispatched from Ireland to .Ameri-
ca almost simultaneously with the de-
parture OF the Sandman from Quebec.
-. The. cost OF passage of these ennis
saries of the cian-na-Gael was betrayed
by a subscription organized by Miss
Maud Come, a young woman who has
ben designated 1.-The Irish Joan of
Arc and who has made several visits.
To the United States in the interests of
the physical force" section of the Irish
extremists.
Their tickets We're purchased by Fred
u. Allan. who is said to be the iecog
nized head of the Gamma Gael in Dub
lin, and who has within the past four
months been appointed private score
tary TO the present lord mayor of Dub
lin. Alderman Pile.
From the time of their landing in.
America to their arrival in Canada a
few days previous, to the explosion. and
possibly since, Walsh and Nolan at least
have been in constant communication
with the executive Of the Clan-na- Gael,
and had been in receipt of moneys from
that body
John Nolan and John Mernagh were
in October last in the employ Of the
Dublin United ,rramways Company
Nolan was a filter and had charge OF
stream, engines. Mernagh occupied j con-
lfiGential position during the electric
Ieauipment of the tramways of the Irish
metropolis. Both left the conrany's
employ "a oct III
Previous 10 his service With the tram
Ways company, Nolan was in the em-
lploy OF the Irish Daily Independent
Essws'paper He WAS known as an .ex-
isuetnist Of the most virulent character
I He first came 10 America in Move nher.
1873. but within n comparatively snort
time returned TO Ireland.
Together with Mernagh, Walsh and
lJohn Rowan Nolan was u member Of
the p. w. Naily club of Dublin from,
Its foundation in 1885, and all fou. were
Well-knoan to their friends as Secret
I slciety men. They Mere active men,
/ 5eTs Of the Cian-iia Gael. and open in
THEIR Remuneration of British rule, and
| their advocacy of physical force as a
means Of freeing Ireland,
/ According 10 the information secured.
this is by no means the first occasion
upon which Nolan has used explosives
lagainst British property. He IS strong
/ ~ suspected Of having been th. prinei-
pal in the dynamite explosion at the
National Press in Abbey street, Dublin
4 oet.25. 1881: Of having placed dynamite
lin the general postottice at Dublin. Dec
4 9, 1881 of having assisted Pat Reid anG
s j. j. Boland in the explosion at Dublir
Ecastlf Dec. y, 1891 ard of completely III
the explosion at the Exchange court
/, deteetive office in Dublin. Dec. 2. 1899
He left Ireland for America in March
1885,. but returned home in the follow.
ing November.
few weeks after his return ther,
vas a shooting ARRAY in Cardiff Lane
& Dublin. in which Pat Reid, inentione,
above. was the victim and Nolan TIL
assailant. The affair. was treated as
drunken quarrel and Nolan got off Will
the nominal sentence of three months
Nolan appears to have returned /,
slt states soon after his ARRAY. for OF
!. March q. 1894, when in Washington. d
g. he took out a declaration Of inten
& lion to become citizen OF the Unite,
States.
81 OF Walsh, not so much informatio,
q has been secured. There Is no doub,
however, that he belonged TO the sam
Clique as Nolan and that he was chose
by the executive of the Glan-na- Gael /
be one of his accomplices in the con
spiracy against Canada.
The four conspirators-John Nolar
John Walsh, John Mernagh and job
Itowan--sailed from Liverpool for Phil
adelphia November i, 1899, on tn
steamship Rhynland.
Nolan and Mernag'h arrived al Mr..
Smiths hotel, 257 North Second stree
Philadelphia, November 10 last The
stated that they had just arrived froi
Ireland and soon after obtained wor
in Cramps shipyards in the Quake
.
themselves quietly, but were know
even there as members of the Clan-na
Gael and We're not backward in discus
sing secret society affairs.
: After a few months they moved |
i, Washington, where they secured ligl
employment, and the next incident
the death of Mernagh by suicide in NJ,
: Inernay's tavern, 212 Ninth stree
/. Washington, Monday, March - last.
: The death certificate states that Me-
nagh had been resident of Washing
ton for two months; that he was sh,
in the chest; that it was a case of su
3 eide, and that he was buried in Moul
Olivet cemetery. His funeral expens,
were betrayed by the executive of IL
Clan-na-Gael in Philadelphia thru u
fundamentally Of one William Gro
sin.
> After Mernagh's death Walsh went
Richmond, Va. but apparently on
stayed there a very short time, as
:. was soon afterward in Brooklyn al
i then back in Philadelphia.
\. Both Nolan and Walsh were membe
of the Amalgamated Society OF Eng
neers. They received their clearanc
from the Dublin branch prior to lea
ing and both became allied to the Sou
Brooklyn branch early this year.
It must be distinctly understood tn
there ID no intention to insinuate an,