The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-29
DYNAMITE JACK JAP FIGHTER
O'BRIEN CAPTAINED 4 SUBMA-
RINE AGAINST RUSSIA.
sank the PetrOpaNIOVsk and Did valiant
Work In Battle OF TushimS straits.
Reports . Friend Nov Hes Helping
the Cars Enemies IN South Russia.

the Cars Enemies I'm SOuth Russia.
Dynamite Jack o'Brien, fllbuste and
daring mariner, Ia in the Caucasus workin Z
as a free lance In the cause OF Russian revo-
luton, according to advices from Russia
received the last week. For the last Ave
years this man, who gained his sobriquei
by daring dashea TO the Cuban coast with
guns and explosives in the last revolution
and whose name headed the list OF more
than one daredevil crew Oh adventure bent,
has not been heard Of about New York.
The intelligence concerning O'Brien's
present activity has been confirmed by q
partner of Dynamite Jack who arrived
In New York from Russia on Tuesday.
This man also brought word that Capt.
John O'Brien, former New York Bay pilot
and latterly sailor Of fortune. has been one
of the makers OF secret history in more
than one part OF the world since last he
was seen in New York.
This man came to New York on Tuesday
on the steamship Astoria from Glasgow.
He Is an American; formerly of New York
and now a secret agent in south Russia for
the revolutionists. He is here ~inoognito
o a important mission in behalf OF the
revolution. With reason, he does not wish
his name to be used in giving his story Of
what O'Brien and a few other Americans
are doing in the Cars realm.
Capt. O'Brien ser ved through the Russo
Japanese war as a commander OF one OF
the Japanese submarines says his friend and
partner from south Russia, and since the
peace he has been busy making more
trouble for the Gar in the Black Sea dis
trict and the eastern portions Of the Cau-
casus. What o'Brien did in the war with
Japan has never before been told. There
ore not a dozen men outside OF the japanese
admiralty office that know the character Of
his work in hat struggle. What O'Brien
has bee doing in south Russia il known
to the secret police in st. Petersburg and
to but few Others.
The daredevil O'Brien went to Russia
shortly after the close Of the Russo-Jap-
anese war, and through some Of the Ameri-
cans in Odessa who are in alliance with,
the revolutionaries throughout all the
Black Sea district O'Brien entered the
services Of the secret society Of the mill
tary party there. which has for it's object
an armed uprising in the army and navy
which will eventually overthrow the Gar
and establish a republic Of all the Russian
States.
O'Brien O became a leader Of the
most intrepid of the conspirators in Odessa
and by his daring and desperate nerve
he won his way to the confidence Of the
central committee Of the revolutionaries,
located at Odessa.
According to the story told by O'Brien's
associate, when the revolutionists planned
the revolt OF the Black Sea feet last year,
which resulted in the disastrous mutiny
on board the Kniaz Potemkin and the
b~ombardment Of Odessa, O'Brien was dele
gated to Interview the Sultan of Turkey
upon the possibilities OF the Black Sea
fleets passing through the Dardanelles
unhindered. Dynamite Jack went to
C~onstantinople and had several audiences
with the Sultan.
1t was tacitly agreed, 40 o'Brien re-
ported back to his party at Odessa, that
il the Black Sea feet should attempt to
pass the Dardanelles a great lombard
ment would be turned on them by the
Turkish forts guarding the straits and much
fuss and fury would be made by the garri-
son in their effort to live up to the letter
of the treaty of Berlin. But all the guns
would be charged with blanks.
Once safely through the Dardanelles, il
was the intention Of the revolutionaries that
the mutinous feet should sail around to
the Baltic and there Join with the vessels
that were expected to break from the Baltic
feet. With this formidable fotilla il was
believed that all the loyal vessels could be
overcome.
Dynamite Jack concluded his secret pact
with the Sultan and returned to report
10 the Odessa society. The revolt was
planned. Everything was arranged for he
springing OF the mine. Then without warn
ing the sailors on the Potemkin ran amuck
before the time set for the concerted action
Of all the ships crews. The battleship
opened Are on Odessa. The revolutionaries
in the town, realizing that they must strike
then. even IL the blow was i'll timed rose
against the Cossacks and Odessa was given
over to anarchy and bloodshed for a week.
The Potemkin acted like a hornet in a
glass box. Not knowing that a secret
arrangement had been made with the Sultan
for the passage Of the revolutionary Black
Sea- fleet, the ignorant sailors and petty
officers who controlled the vessel contented
themselves witt terrorizinR several towns
and finally escaped to a neutral Rumanian
port.
BY this abortive rising the Odessa band
OF revolutiOnaries got a lard blow. For
many months after the Potemkin affair
the iron hand Of the COssacks was pressed
down upon the malcontents in and about
the big seaport so severely a. to paralyze
all effort at further plotting. 1t was at this
time that Dynamite Jack set his course
for the Caucasus and the rontier OF Trans
caucasia.
In hat field he has served for now almost
Q year. As a runner In OF arms for the use
Of the villagers he has proven himself as
expert as in the old days OF the Cuban revo-
luton. As a fomenter of trouble between
the border tribes of Armenians, which
reflects directly on the Russian military
and draws their attention from the work
Of the revolutionists. O'Brien has become
an adept. The little Irishman whose close
cropped iron gray mustache used to be
seen bristling over the collar OF his SOU
wester when he was guiding a liner through
a heavy gale OF the Hook in years gone by
has become az sharp a thorn in the side OF
the Russian Gar as any expert d%ynamiter.
The last job that O'Brien did was the
blowing up OF some OF the Baku oil wells
several months ago, when an outbreak in
the oil district was at its height. Acting