TYMAN AND HIS GANG.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 36

TYMAN AND HIS GANG.

London, November 13. Bell, one of Tynan’s associates, who was arrested in Glasgow, was charged at Bow street to-day with having contravened the fifth section of the Explosive Substances Act, 1873. The Government spy, in his evidence, made some astounding revelations. He declared that the prisoner attended secret meetings of Irishmen in New York, and j uueu iu a plot aguiiisl England. London, November 14. A spy who joined the United Irishmen Party states that Carney, Tynan, Lyman and Bell were prominent officers of the Secret Association. He revealed the secrets and passwords, and forwarded documents to the British Cfoverment. The object of the Society, he declared, was to establish an Irish Republic by revolution, and lie further stated that large sums of money were being collected to educate dynamiters to assist in outrages. At one meeting, he said, there were 600 delegates, and two Australians attended a Chicago Convention in 1895. Bell, it is said, became acquainted with Tynan in 1882. The Government spy joined the camp in New York, and enrolled Mearns and Nolan, who were concerned in the explosion in Dublin,

Bell has been committed for trial.