The Washington times., 1914-07-26

cloud I would have been permitted
to write to them once every two
months. 1t was hard not to do that
but refrained. / might have had
my wife come to see me. but to have
her travel all the way to the Kings
able to- kiss her. or even to touch
her hand would have been harder
for her and for me than our con-
tinued separation. Such visit
could have lasted only half an hour
at best. but the time would nave
been cut IL the guards became in'-
patient"
That meeting Of wife and husband
on the yeranda Of the hotel at At
Iantic City, Dillon said, eclipsed all
the wonders Of his new found exper-
fences. His family did not know
that he had been pardoned oy tne
Canadian government. His first act,
when he breathed free air, was to
telegraph his wife to meet him at
hotel at the shore which long
since was demolished. His second
was to send a message to 1rleno,
who had been dead ten years: 10 pe
at the station as he passed through
PbiIadeIphia. No more pathetic
commentary could be made on mis-
complete isolation from family ana
friends. ., C;,u
after his few hours IN rev
found the hotel was no more, anu
on the boardwalk for his w'1e anu
family.
Soon Met Family.
Nv , kind stroke of the fate which
long had turned her tickle face from
him he saw his wife and his daugh-
ter within a few hours after their
arrival With the characteristic
delicacy and restraint which had
kent him from communicating with
them he did not accost them IN the
crowd. but followed them into the
hotel before he made known his
identity.
Then two Of his sons were sent
for. and two Of his grandchildren,
Of whose existence he had not
known. were brought to him. For
the first few DAYS he declined to
e1nIore further the wonders OF his
new found dream world. lie sat by
the hour on the veranda of the hotel.
talking to his wife and children. and
holding In his sturdy clasp his two
grandchildren.
speech. does Dillon suggest a paroled
sIJfeterner" He Is OF medium
height. rather stout. has a cheerful,
good natured, countenance, and his
cropped hair just beginning to grow
out. and wee bit OF mustache.
"a he would call II, give him the ap-
rearance Of a middle aged, weil-to-
do business man.
When persuaded to leave MS fam
fly long enough TO talk at all he
shows no more hesitancy about re-
lating the events that led UP to his
imprisonment than he does about
telling Of the prison life of Cana
dian penitentiary.
OF the two men who were sen
tenced with him. John Welsh. who
also lived In Washington, died from
the effects Of the treatment received,
and John Nolan. of Richmond. Va,
Is broken in body and In spirit.
Considers Offense Patriotic.
Dillon still regards his orfense as
one committed with a patriotic mo-
tive, even II the patriotism was OF a
mistaken sort. Nor was his pa
,riotism of a sort that reverts to
the grievances OF a fatherland in
entire disregard OF his obligations to
an adopted country.
"At the outbreak Of .hn civil war"
he said. My father enlisted. He
served in Morrehead's lGcth PcnEsyl-
ysnia regiment. Later he Joined the
Fourth Maryland. and from that he
WAS honorably discharged at the end
~ the war. | enlisted when | was
seventeen years old. and fought all
the way from Kansas to Montana in
the Twenty-sevcnth Regular Infan-
trv in the Indian war that followed
Red Clouds rebellion. My son.
Michael, now dead, saw service in
Cuba during the Spanish-Amcrican
brief account OF his parents
career is necessary to IN understand
ing OF the motives that led up to
the dynamite plot in which Dillon
was involved. His father was COM
nelled to leave Ireland during the
"famine years. OF 1S46-47, during
which there was plenty produced in
Erin. hut prices were so low that
many farmers could not meet the
heavy rents demanded by English
landlords. One uncle went to Aus