The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21

between the trio. Dallmsn told them to
prepare for an early start next day, and
after breakfast on the following morn
| ing. April 16 he gave TO NOlin ana
Walsh two canvas grips, or telescopes.
In each Of these grips were about
/ eighty pounds Of dynamite. mixed to
! the consistency of stiff dough. Fuses
were with each cake. lying on top, but
unattached. The three cOnspirators
then took a trolley car to Niagara Falls,
n Y. and on their arrival Nolin and
Walsh left Dallman and proceeded TO
the Imperial hotel and registered there
as Smithland Moore. In the AFTERNOON
Da1lman called for them and they took
a Grand Trunk train across Suspension
bridge and got off at MerritOn, Canada.
At this point they boarded q street car
and rode to ThorOld. where they were
seen by Mrs. Constable inspecting the
lock,
/ When the trio returned to tine falls
! that night Nolin and Walsh agreed to
/ change their lodgings. and on the next
day they left thC Imperial hotel and
went to the Dolphin: house. Dallman
took up his quarters in the Rosli house
on the Canadian side of the river. On
Thursday afternoon, April 10, Nolin
and Walsh drove to ThorOld. meeting
Dallman, also driving on the road near
/ Thorold The three met on the Ameri-
can side, Dallman calling on them at
the Dolphin house.
1t fell to Walsh's part to convey the
| dynamite into Canada. On April 20, he
carried one of the bags containing the
/ explosive to the Rosii house and on the
following afternoon. the day of the eX-
plosion. he took over the second bag,
leaving both of them with Dallman I'M
til they were ready to start FOR Thor
old. After the explosion, according to
Dallman's plan. Noiin and Walsh were
to meet him at the falls. or failing there.
i'm Buffalo. and take late trains away.
The failure of the dynamite to COM
plete its work of destruction and the
! arrest of his two confederates resulted
in the failure of Dallman's plan to re-
treat and his own capture.
Karl Dailman. the arch plOtter in the
| conspiracy turned out to be an even
more picturesque character than Muir
ray had suspected before commencing
his Investigations. For. following up
one clue after the other, the detective
became aware that the so-calied Dali
man Of Trenton. y. J.. was none other
than Luke Dillon of Philadelphia, who
had figured prominently in the world
famous Cronin case. Dillon was a mem
Der of the executive committee of the
! Clan-na-Gael and defended that or
ganizaticn and publicly championed it,
achieving more than national nOtoriety
when. in his official capacity. he went
to Chicago at the time of the murder Of
DR.. CrOnin. At that time he denounced
Alexander Sullivan, raised funds for the
prosecution of those accused of CrO-
Minis murder, advocated the throwing
off of the oath of secrecy. so far as neC-
essary to run down the assassins, went
OF the witness stand. and by his testi-
! mony revealed the secret of the TTian-
gle. the chief three who had ruled as
the executive of the Clan-na-Cfaet,
made public the charges against Sui
Ivan and fought throughout on the side
of the anti-Sullivan wing. The identi-
[ fication was made absolute and final
, Men who knew Luke Dillon, who haC
! worked day by day near him, visiteC
p Karl Dallman and identified him posi-
, lively as the former high official of th'
) Clan-na-GaeL
= But above all. MuTray's careful. uneT
ring tracing Of the chief suspects ca
- reef convinced the Canadian govern
J ment that Dallman and Dillon were one
! Originally Dillon was a shoemaker. II