The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-09

Some of these afterward received great work in connection with the unearthing of the conspiracy; but the fact is the man who did the delicate serviceand exposed his life repeatedly to discover the perpetrators and bring them to jus tice was Colonel Thomas H. Keefe, who has long been connected with the customs service of ths government.
 Colonel Keefe proceeded to Toronto, Canada, where the rebel conspirators had their headquarters. He put up at the Kueen's Hotel, where he was known as T. NJ. Lyons, of New York At that time there was also a rebel plot to burn the public buildings and destroy the leading hotels of New York. This incl dent led Colonel Keefe to have very in- timate and confidential relations with General John A. Dix, who then com manded at that point.
 '"The rebel conspirators who made Toronto their head center comprised St. Leger Grenfell, an Englishman, a sol- dier of fortune, an adventurer, who had served in the French army, and again in the Algerians against the French; who had held a commission in the army of the Sultan of Turkey; who had been a member of Garibaldi's South American Legion; who had been an officer in the British army during the Crimean war; who had seen service in India in the Sepoy rebellion and who became rebel raider under Morgan. He was an unwholesome man with a black record.
 Captain Thomas Henry Hines was a man of entirely different type. He was a man of excellent family, Kentucky born and bred, and was trusted fully by Jefferson Davis, There were, be- side, General George Doty, General James P. Holeombe, Major G. B. i Woods, Captain John B. Castleman, Captain A. Stone, Captain George B. Jenks, G. A. Ellsworth and c. M. Swa- ger.
 Colonel Vincent Marmaduke, brother of General Marmaduke, had previously and with great secrecy made visit to Geneva, H., and Chicago with a view to perfscting the plans for the release of the prisoners at Camp Douglas, and to capture and destroy Chicago. -...
 aThe Toronto band fixed upon three different dates for the uprising in Chi cago-July 4, July 20 and August 29- but these were for various reasons abandoned, Finally it was decided to have the uprising take place in No vember, or immediately after the pres idential election of 1864.
 ''The uprising of the conspirators was set for November s, 1864. In the early morning of November, z the work began \ of arresting the plotters. Colonel Keefe first conducted the troops and detec- tives, to the Richmond house, where Grenfell and Captain Hines boarded. Grenfell was arrested in his room by Colonel Keefe. He had with him a bulldog that he had brought with him from the south. It was known and proven at the trial that he had more than once set this brute upon Union prisoners who had fallen into his hands. This dog was afterward exhibited at the, fair held in Bryan hall on Clark street, where the Grand Opera House now stands.
 Now, about 143 Adams street: Among those arrested that night was pr. Edwards of that address. He was a well known rebel sympathizer, and was among those suspected of helping rebel prisoners to escape from Camp Douglas and to get out of Chicago, At that time Adams street was residence street. Colonel Keefe proceeded to the Edwards house after he had captured GrenfaIl Hines Evas r,ot found at +hn