The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-02-23 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

HOW MR. FORSTER ESCAPED.  Some rather singular circumstances are furnished in connection with the extremely narrow escapes of Mr. Forster during the murderous exploits of the Invincibles 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 invitation t dine with the Yacht Club at Kingstown instad of dining at the Kildare Club and meeting his wife as he was in the habit of doing. He did not accept the invitation to dine at Kingston for the purpose of avoiding any apprehended danger, nor was he at other times aware of the imminenc of risk to which it now appoars he was so frequently exposed. Careful precautions were of course adopted to protect Mr. Forster in his movements, but the right lion. gentleman never realiz:d until reading the disclosures made in the course of Saturday's evidence that ha had so narrowly escaped death. Mr. Forster remembers perfectly well the first occasion upon which, according to the evidence, the signals failed. Ile 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 him. 'No. 1."  The following particulars respecting the individual who styled himself 'No. 1," and who organised the Assassins. tion 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 Aseassinaton Committee in Dublin, whose name never transpired and whose movements, as related by Carey in his evidence, were enshrouded in such mystery. He always signed himself "No. 1," and was designated by the members of the organisation "General." He is an Irish-American, but resided in France and Germany occasionally. During the last year and a half he has been in the habit of visiting Dublin at trequent intervals, and stopping long and short periods. While in Dublin he used invariably to stop either at one of the principal hotels or at a well-known marine hotel, situated a shot t distance outside Dublin and near to Biackrock, where Carey, in his evidence, deposed to having had an interview with Lim last summer. This individual had, apparently, unlimited money at his die. posal, and an inqtyry addressed by a large business establishment in Dublin, with which he had some financial transactions, to a large banking firm in Paris, given by him as a reference, was replied to in the follow. ing manner:—' 'The gentleman in question has seemingly unlimited means derived from large drafts in his favour from America." "General is a man of about 50 years of age, sft. 10iin. in height, well preserved, full face. cleanly awed, except a long fair  .4mo. moustache. which is inclined to he reddish t military hear. into, and walks slightly lome on the right lee, 'thin the effect of a wound he received during the Franno-Prussign War, in whirl, he served in the canacity of a miner officer in the FranceTireurs, and he has also seen some service in the American War. Diving 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 Rtats he had interviews with him. His last appearance in Dublin Wee about two months ago. and since than all trace hoe 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 stetting the dates of his visits, as furnished by the rogisters at the two hotels referred to but they are confident of obtaining enough information to trace his whereabouts on the Continent or in America, where they believe him to he,  -31•Nr