The Poole Telegram. — 1883-02-23 (Poole, Dorset, England)

HOW MR. FORSTER ESCAPED.  Some rather singular circumstances are furnished in eouneetion with tue extremely narrow escapes of Mr. Forster during the murderous exploits of the Invlncibles in Dublin. On the occasion when, according to Carey's evidence, some of the assassins looked into the carriage at the railway-station and saw only Mrs. and Miss Forster, it happened that by the merest chance and almost at the last moment the right hon. gentleman had accepted an invitatton ti dine with the Yacht Club at Kingstown inst-a I of dining at the Kildare Club and meeting his wife as he was ha the habit of doing. He did not accept the invitatien to dine at Kingston for the purpose of avoiding any apprehended danger, nor was he at other times aware of the imminence of risk to which it now appears he was so frcqsently exposed. Careful precautions were of course adopted to protect Mr. Forster in his movements, but the right hon. gentleman never realized until reading the disclosures made in the course of Saturday's evidence that he had so narrowly escaped death. Mr. Forster remembers perfectly well the first occasion lipm which, according to the evidence, the signals failed. ele was then driving out with his daughter, but nothing occurred in the course of the drive to suggest that the assassins were lying in wait for hqn. "No. 1'  The following particulars respecting the individual who styled himself "No. 1," and who organised the Assassination Committee. and supplied it with money and weapons to carry out the murders which were planned and executed in Dublin during the last 18 months, have been obtained from the most reliable sources, and will throw a flood of light on the chief instigator and originator of the Assassination Committee in Dublin, whose name never transpired and whose movements, as relstad by Carey in his evidence, were enshrouded in-such mystery. He always signed himself " No. I,- and was designated by the members of the organisation "General." He is an Irish-American, but resided in France and Garmany occasionally. During the last year and a half hr has been in the habit of visiting Dublin at irequent intervals, and stopping long and short periods. While in Dublin he used invariably to stop either at one of the principal hotels or at s well-known marine hotel, situated a short distance outside Dublin and near to Blackrock, where Carey, in his tvidence. deposed to having had ..n interview with him last summer. This individual had, apparently, unlimited money at his disposal, and an inquiry addressed by a large business establishment in Dublin, withwhchhehadeomeflnaccal transactions, to a large banking firm in Paris, given by him as a reference, was replied to in the following manner:—" Toe gentleman in question has seemingly unlimited means derived from large drafts in favour from America." "General ' is • MB of about 50 years of age, Bft, 10iin. in height, well preset red, 10 face, cleanly shaved, except a long lair  moustache, which is inclined to be reddish : military bear. inn, and walks slightly lame on the right leg, team the effect of a wound he received during the Franco-Prima:den War, in which he served in the caoacity of a minor officer in the Franc-Tireure, and he has also seen some service in the American War. During last summer he was in the habit of visiting Dublin frequently, and it is now found that the periods at which he is known to have been in the city coincided with the dates Carey states he hai interviewe with him. His last appearance in Dublin waa about two months ay., and since then all trace has been lost of him. The police since Carey has furnished them with the information are diligently endeavouring to get on his track, but have succeeded in doing little more up to the present than grtting the dates of his visits, as furnished by the registers at the two hotels referred ta but they are c mfident of obtaining enough information to trace his whereabouts on the Continent or in America, whore they believe him to be.