The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1883-08-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE LIVERPOOL DYNAMITE CASE.  On Tuesday, before Mr. JuPtice Stephen, presiding at the Liverpool Assizes' the five prisonege, Timothy Featherstone, Daniel O'Herlihy, Denis Deapey, Patrick Flanagan, and Henry Dalton, alias John H. O'Connor, were eharged with illegal possession of explosives and with conspiracy to blow up public buildings and to murder subjects of her Majesty. Tne prisoners pleaded not guilty, and were all defended. The Solicitor-General, in opening the case for the Crown, said that, generally fepeakiug, the charge was that of conspiracy to disturb the authority of the Queen in Ireland by violeece, the form being the,lnee of explosives of a very dangerous and fearful kind.' Detective-superintendent Williams, of the Liverpool police force, deposed to examining Deasey's box the night be WWI arrested, and to finding two tin moistens containieg lignine dynamite, a parcel labelled chlorate of potash, one labelled powdersd sugar, aud another containing reaigar or red, orpiment. Three brass taps were also found, the inner cylinder of which was wrapped round in paper and cord. A bottle with sulphuric acid in it was found in the box. The whole of the contents was handed over to Dr. Campbell Brown, the City analyst, for examination. On July 6he was informed that the prisoner F'anagan wished to see him, and Captain Nott Bower, the head constable, accompanied him to the gaol. Flanagan asked him if he had found a letter which Featherstone had written to him (Flanagan), and went on to ask the question whether witness was aware that Featherstone only ceme back from America a little before last Christmas, and stayed and slept with him at St. Helens on Dec. 30 and 31. The prisoner then said, "When you took Deasey, how is it you come to make the Mistake of s oing to 34 ineread of 43, Regent-etreet, because that is how you missed the other man." The prisoner did not say who the other man was. • He then made some allusion to Dr. Dampbell Brown's examinas tion, and endeavoured to explain that Dr. Brown was wrong as to the mixture of the materials to form dstamite. The prisoner also said that he belonged he Fenian organisation, and that he joined it in St. 1 Helens some two years ago. Flanagan furthes Weida the remark, "You know I don't wish to turn informer. Of course they can't give us what they gave those people in London; because they dealt with them ander the new Act." He did not say anything about Norman or the other London prisoners to Flapagan, but a question might have been asked by the prisoner concerning them.  Other witnesses were examined to show that the prisoners had been in cornmunication with each other, and the trial was then adjourned.  On Tuesday at the Liverpool Police-court, James Nl'Dermott, 40, was charged with conspiracy to murder public officials in Ireland and in Liverpool f'het risoner was fashionably dressed and wore eyeglasses. Mr, Murphy, a head-constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary, said that in pursuance of a telegram received from the Government, he arrested the pri'.oner on Monday on board the steamer City cf Montreal, in the Mersey, he having just arrived from America, trayellir g under the name of Peter Quickley. The accused protested against his detention. He said, he was an American citizen, and had a right to be discharged if there was no evidence against him. The deputy stipendiary having read the telegram received from the Government officials in Ireland, remanded the prisoner for a week to enable the Irish authorities to be communicated with.