The Poole Telegram. — 1883-03-09 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ARREST OF WALSH AT HAVRE.  SUPPOSED CLUE TO "NO. 1." DUBLIN, Friday.  • Information has reached Dublin that John Walsh has been arrested at Havre. The identity and whereabouts of the myeierious "No. 1," named by Csrey, the informer, as the chief of the Irish Invincibl-s. have also at last been discovered, and in all probability he will be in a very short time arrested. The authorities are confident of the accuracy of the information in their posssesion, and at the present moment the Dublin police hold in their hands conclusive proof of the right direction taken by their suspicions for the last week or two. Indeed, their investigations hove resulted so successfully that not on y do they believe that they have drawn the net tightly round " No. I," but that they have already in their cuetody another ruling spirit of the secret society. The most important portion of this evidence was obtained a few days ago ir the town of Rochdale, in the neighbourhood of which the police had been quietly pushing their inquiries for some time past. The nature of the discovery made cannot but be regarded as of the most chortling importance, when it is stated that lists of the names of the chief members of the assa-einet'on and other kindred secret societies, and documents disclosing the monner and ex•ent of the organisation thereof, now lie in Dublin Castle, and form but a portion of the " find " that: has rewarded the exertions of the authorities. S 3 complete has been the evidence of guilt obtained that it is now claimed that the whole mystery and ramiecations of the murderous association that decreed the assassination of Mr. Forster and Mr. Burke have been laid bare. As before stated, the discovery was made in England, where it id believed emissaries of the murder conspiracy have been for some months engaged in inveigling young Irishmen into thi ir ranks. In consequence of the dieclieures made by Carey and others, communication was mode from Dublin to the English polies, and an Irish d• t •ciive was sent ovs r to the neighborhood of Rochdale to w•tch the movements of a men named John Waish, who was on Friday arrested in France, and concerning whom strong suspicion was entertained. This man had been in the tab t if p.y ins periodical visits to Rochdale, and during the few days thai he remained on each oceeion he used to ett pat a quiet Ten.psrance Hotel. However, the dot time that he came to R• chdale he changed his quart, ma, and rut up at a small publich use in a poor locality. In pursuit of evidence lw aring 111t0I1 the membership and organisation of the Assassination S city, the Irish detective Murphy arrived in Rochdale • few days ago and in cones queue« of information which he procured' visited the lodgings occupied by Walsh. In the meanwhile however, Walsh had suddenly left the town, leaving his luggaee met el her i ffects behind. The p dice entered his r• tuns and there seized a number of documents, comprising lists ef the names of members of a s-cret society, papers ceasing to the extent and ch.iracter of the organisation, and correspondence showing that Walsh Lad been, for seeret society purposes, the organiser of Bolton, Rochdale, and the Noah of Eoglood Metric% itn4 fa Oat