The Providence News

A FENIAN PLOT.
Claim Made That it Originated in America.
Plan Was to Have Its Consummation in England.
Czar a Marked Man—Bomb Factory Discovered at Antwerp.

London, Sept. 15.—The Times has an editorial this morning, commenting at length on the arrests at Boulogne, Glasgow and Rotterdam, of persons suspected of complicity in a dynamite plot, in the course of which it says: Unless the police have committed a succession of incredible blunders, we are in the presence of a conspiracy of the same type as that for which Dr. Gallagher was sentenced. As we have all along contended, the irreconcilables are irreconcilable still, and still remain murderous enough in their intention, and strong enough in numbers to organize and pay for complicated and costly conspiracy against Great Britain. The lessons to be drawn are plain enough, and the nation may be left to draw them for itself, at the moment John Daly is enjoying triumphant receptions from his fellow countrymen.

The Chronicle, in its editorial on the subject, points out that the new conspiracy has no root in Ireland, and that it is not even suggested by the police that the persons arrested have any connection with any organization, open or secret. The plot has been hatched, continues The Chronicle, in the drinking saloons of New York, and so openly and carelessly that every detail was known to the police from the inception of the scheme. Tynan might as well have proclaimed the plot from the housetops. It is all very strange, and we want more light.

A semi-official communication upon the subject of the recent arrests of alleged dynamite conspirators was issued yesterday afternoon. It says:
"There has been, within the full knowledge of the Scotland Yard officials, for some time past, a gang of desperadoes busily engaged in America in preparing the ramifications for an extensive and diabolical plot to perpetrate a dynamite outrage in this country and establish a reign of terror. Chief Inspector Melvin, who has been so prominent in tracing and arresting Fenians, has been the head of the Scotland Yard arrangements for checkmating the present conspirators. Gradually, and quietly, a complete network was drawn round the plotters, and the fact being known that they were in intimate communication with prominent Russian nihilists in the United States enabled the police to pursue, investigate and discover, on what is believed to be absolute evidence, that one of the most recent developments of the scheme aimed at an outrage on the czar upon the occasion of his visit to England.

"The prime movers were Fenians in America, and when the plot had been carried as far as possible there, Tynan, and the other chief agents, were dispatched to Europe to consummate the designs adopted. Every precaution was taken in shipping them separately and by different routes. The emissaries of Scotland Yard, however, dogged their every movement."

The communication then deals with the arrests, and the capture of all the appliances, documents, etc., and continues:
"It was arranged that Bell should go to Glasgow to superintend a series of outrages in Scotland, the explosives necessary being sent from Belgium as required."

Tynan spent Saturday evening at the bar of the hotel, drinking and standing for drinks freely, and talking politics. He retired to bed intoxicated at 2 o'clock Sunday morning. He was still under the influence of drink when he was arrested, and he assumed his innocence till Detective Inspector Walsh recounted to him all his recent movements, when he admitted his identity. The formalities of extradition in Tynan's case will occupy a fortnight.

A dispatch from Brussels shows that there was a woman connected with the conspiracy. The house at Berchem, the suburb of Antwerp, where the police found a laboratory fully fitted with appliances and materials for the manufacture of bombs and explosives, was hired by a woman, and the police are now searching for her. The Belgian police have also found, in the house referred to, finger and feet imprints in the clay used by the bombmakers in fashioning the moulds for their bombs. It is believed that this fact will serve to identify the men who occupied the house, and connect the right persons with this feature of the great conspiracy.

Two thousand pounds sterling was found upon the persons arrested at Berchem. The police suspect 15 other persons in various European capitals of complicity with the Berchem faction.

The Chronicle says that later information points to an attempt upon the life of the czar having been planned at Breslau.

The correspondent of The Chronicle at Paris says in a dispatch to that paper:
Tynan has been a familiar figure here off and on for a decade. I have seen him repeatedly, and I cannot bring myself to believe that this melo-dramatic capture might not have been affected years ago.

The police here now admit that the man arrested at Rotterdam, whose name was first given as Wallace, is, in fact, John F. Kearney of New York. Edward Bell, when arrested at Glasgow, had £160 in his purse. In connection with the arrest of Tynan at Boulogne, this man's relatives are being shadowed at Kingstown.

The secretary of the Great Britain Amnesty association, speaking of the arrest of Tynan, says that they will afford Tynan means for his defense, but that he will have no sympathy if he has been guilty of any recent conspiracies.

The Daily News' Paris correspondent says: M. Rochefort, editor of L'Intransigeant, does not believe that Tynan will be extradited, but he points out that the rumor that the czar was a marked man would make it hard to refuse extradition, if there were a prima facie case against him. It would not be surprising, says M. Rochefort, if the German emperor should rush to Paris to show his willingness to unite with the czar and President Faure in crushing the red monster of anarchism.