DYNAMITE PARTY REVELATIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 7432, 30 January 1888, Page 2

DYNAMITE PARTY REVELATIONS.

‘THE TIMES” DISCLOSURES. ASSASSINATION AND DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS. An extraordinary account appeared in ‘The Times ’ on Wednesday, December 16, of the organisation of the dynamite party. The statement is said to have been voluntarily made to ‘ The Times ’ by a person who is believed by the conductors of that journal to be in a position to know what he asserts, and who, they say, can hardly have any motive for deception, Tne statement was as follows : “ Our informant began by saying that he himself was a Home Ruler and follower of Mr Parnell, and that he disapproved of the policy pursued by the advanced Nationalists as much more likely to prejudice than to advance the cause of his country. He then went on to state that Dr Hamilton Williams was now the head centre of the extreme section, occupying for that purpose the rooms in Chambers street, New York, previously held by O’Donovan Rossa, whose successor he is. There he keeps a staff of clerks, and has a fund of more than L 200.000 at his disposal with which to organise and wage war in the enemy’s country. The methods of this warfare are assassination and dynamite explosions the former directed against obnoxious individuals, and the latter against property, public and private. Dr Hamilton Williams, it will be recollected, was the partner, and now carries on the business of the notorious Gallagher, who is undergoing sentence of penal servitude for life as a dynamiter. The mode in which Dr Hamilton Williams seeks at present to carry out his plan is still that of sending over to this country IrishAmerican agents. But they are no longer sent to act directly, that method having been found too risky. Their instructions are to organise in London and other large cities the immediate instruments of outrage. It is calculated that such instruments can he found among us in any required number for the assassination of our public men and for dynamite explosions, whereas American-Irish coining here as direct agents are found at once to attract the notice of the police and to become objects of general suspicion. Proceeding on this policy, a man was sent over some time before the Jubilee to arrange for a aeries of outrages during its progress. He, however, became known to the police, and had to return. A man named Kearney came next for the same purpose, but the police were on him at once, and he had to escape to Belgium, whence he returned to America. About last April a person (whose name and occupation we withhold at present, but who then had an office in London, and was the chief agent here of the extreme party) left England for New York to work with the staff in Chambers street in planning outrage with his assistance. Fresh men were sent to Liverpool, having a twofold object : First, to try and form an Invincible Society in order to assassinate Mr Balfour and other obnoxious gentlemen who might come in their way ; secondly, to carry out dynamite explosions as far as possible simultaneously. These emissaries are well supplied with money through the medium of a Paris bank, from which it is drawn as required and brought over here by a special messenger. They have also succeeded somehow in getting two hundredweight of dynamite stored away secretly in London ; and though our informant professed not to know the locality, perhaps the publicity now given to his statement may lead to its discovery. It would seem that this batch of emissaries from Chambers street, Now York, has, like its predecessor, attracted the watchfulness of the police. The consequence has been that they got alarmed and spread over the country. Some have escaped entirely, but some are still here, and our informant, though impressed by the success of the measures hitherto taken to

foil their designs, evidently believes that the danger to the lives of Mr Balfour and other public men still continues. He also believes in the probability of dynamite explosions, and he mentioned incidentally that there was now a powder available which floated lightly on water and yet retained all its destructive properties.” Tho London correspondent of the ‘ Irish Times’ says “Dr Williams is O’Donovan Rossa’s successor in the lead of the extreme Irish-American Fenians, and turned up some years ago in British Guinea, where ho was quite a lion at Government House and at the officers’ moss. He used to be a man of dashing appearance and with the traditional “go” of Southern Irishmen. It seems, however, his reputation in South America was that of a wild idealist. He has never been able to settle down to the practice of his profession, and has now, it seems, definitely abandoned everything for the violent pursuits of politics. Assuming the truth of the revelations published in ‘ The Times,’ it is expected that the Government will renew their previous representatations on the subject to the United States Administration. Previous attempts to negotiate have been coldly received at Washinton, but the question of political conspiracy is steadily growing an International one, in which the American is concerned as well as other people. ’ The London correspondent of the Dublin ‘ Express ’ says that another fact of peculiar interest is the large amount in the Estimates for American expenses. This is quite a new feature, and has grown rapidly in recent years. Everything the fifty or six ty English and Irish detectives now in America ascertain bearing on the dynamite party is cabled in cypher at once to London from New York, It is announced that Dr Hamilton Williams declares the statement to be absurd, and a New York correspondent asserts that infinite amusement has been caused there by ithe statement that O’Donovan Rossa’s old 'followers, under a new leadership, have a Idynamite fund of L 200,000. It is doubtful, ithe correspondent adds, whether the whole |of them together possess L 5.