THE DYNAMITAROS BURTON AND CUNNINGHAM.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 21, 3 June 1885, Page 4

THE DYNAMITAROS BURTON AND CUNNINGHAM.

The two men who were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the lust explosions in London have been sentenced to penal servitude for life. When they were committed for trial, the Home News summarised the evidence against them as follows Without offering any opinion as to their complicity in the outrages, it is certain that the theory of the police is a very ingenious hypothesis, and pieces together the scatteied fragments of evidence in a singularly intelligible manner. If the prisoners, who reserve their defence, are found innocent, at any rate their mysterious movements to and fro between England and America, and the fnnds of which they have had command without ostensible means of livelihood, arc prinia facie suspicions. W hen Cunningham was questioned he gave (as perfectly innocent people in similar cases often have done) a false account of himself. On his lodgings being searched, a black box was found, which nad evidently just been emptied, and a bundle of clothes. Among these a small detonator, very similar to those discovered at the railway stations last summer, was found wrapped up in a sock. It was also proved that he had arrived at his lodgings with a brown trnnk, which was not to be seen. A cabman, however, came forward and deposed to having taken it to Button’s, who was thereupon arrested, and has since been indenlified as having been present in the train from which explosives were dropped on the Underguoond Railway. Whatever the verdict of the trial may be, the investigations hitherto reflect great credit on the diligence and ingenuity of the police.