Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — FREEING IRELAND BY FORCE. [ARTICLE]

FREEING IRELAND BY FORCE.

m*> owe*:'f «* A vt--Sensatioafl t JMgaromg the Tonfli Furnished from America fe Make ic#* , Elplodhfifeaii Blow Up 1 AMk ■c.l) Hurt WORotldloga, gj Whitehead, the eight men arrestea charged prisoners being atrtflgnedtifthe cOuA-room, way. thwcaWe report, it wasannOvmeed NqrW*» po test of tile prisoners, inciqdpg Bernard p&Uagher ind Whitehead, formally changed with treason-’f elony. * Folarid, in opening the case f<* ta<b*bi»mi,*Wd s he bad "a "quantity of man testified that hiss retd name Was William Joseph Lynch, and that he was bom of Irish parents In the State of New York, ffihewore tbatle worked in Obtpber last at »Jdtfeehibnfidtr’«tft BrocMyiA it that time h£ joined A secret ih New Ybrk; the object of which was to free Ireland by force Timm embers went by hunißbfs. The hall >There were othereassobiated with the dubs Tvncn, ampftfving, said that in Qotober lastfwMle workfog in a cofcfi-vSfflfer’s in Brooklyn, a ahopmate, Daniel O’Connor, induced mm to join a secret Society, a branch of tie Fenian organization, the divisions Of *««h Cluhk ” O'dottnor took hiih to ah Odd-Fellb wS’ hall lb New il’ork, aediman ante-rbbm tbld him the Object of the society was to free Ireland Ay the laws of the brotherhood The mem-' bers vwera known by numbers The of tlje presiding officer was Thomas Buins. Lynpb attended called meetings of tpe club,twica each month. Re did not know O’DCnovau-Koesapersonally, butheard he bad been to tbeglqb-room. He was always spoken of Chesffe as Che “old man. ” He knew, beside ©’Conner, two members of' the elub, [jpfii-fa. named Sullivan.. The number of the treasurer of tho club was 83; of the Secretary 13. The password for admiesion to the meetings was “Providence” There w«rp/ytJhftrasa / i^jj^fewYork—the, Hldwtield, bn Street; the Omft. Rqf and Thomas Davie, at Military HtfU; WSr Emmet, on Eighth avenue; and the Da'pp i«qpd4fßom Mpdxe ,Clubs The district members were not kimwn to .each other. When if member wAs warifed to go on I misstol|i the Resident read oht hisaaimber, and him to sfend him-'{the President) his Lynch was sent to Mr. Thomas who lived on Manhattan avenue, at Gre«p»g 1 X t 't O LO^S‘S.ao O S I^Sd t £no^”S f<ff swhea he got there. -Gallagher < gtjjimj Mm #SO and toldhim to take a steerage pjgp sage by steamer to Spain under tn 6 name or Norman. Dr. Gallagher gave him #IOO matt and told him ,to go td London, and inqiaSßjc ’ffl the AmeriSab Exchange for a letter #&! pressed to him. fj Lynch did not want to gjfej as he had relatives to support, but finaiffife went,->4)r. Gallagher gave him a small box. He examined this on„the steamer, and, fiafej ingit contained a spring which worked BWi became alarmed and threvwK Lynch spid be reached London Maroh 2!k l met Dr. Gallagher in London the 27th and 28th. *ln Boriubn Dr. Grtlagher anfftbe ness passed Scotland Yard, and Dr. Gallagher said: “That is the.headquarters of the ttM *lt w.IT come down, too.” |Hg| Galiaghexsaid Lewas staying at Ch*r.'hg;-.; Cross Hotel, and gave the witness £7 say:wH| “It don’t run short The old man jyiil pfH| Vide for As.* TheyVfalkett pAst thfe BceueME the Westminster explosion. - On his askjgßß Dt. GaflagLer if “that’s what we are goingto do,” the latter answered “Yes.” -Gallagher viewed the houses of Parliament and wh “ f *At thm qmintr dir. Gallagher shouted out froni the dock: “You infamous liar!” ** LjhlMVfaid that, #fom the statements of Dr Uaiiagher as to what destruction was to be wrought, he inferred from the talk of his co-conspirators that O’Donovan-Rosea was in the schemes, Rossa was referred to as “the olaman.”' Lynch testified that he went to Birmingham to see Whitehead at Dr. Gallagher’s request “eome materiaL” Dr. Gallagher gave him money to buy a presentable *ruh£ la which ; to put the stuff he was to get from Whitehead. Whitehead put ' in “ the way of getting india-rubber bags. -Lynch confirmed all the evidence submitted at the hearing last Thursday as AO Dr *(MI lasher having called for him as Fletcher. He said when Whitehead was loading jjhe nitro glycerine into ruhhec bags he TOldfliynch that fifty pounds had been taken away that morning. Whitehead aho told hipa he would isoon know what the * traitor!” *ts ' Si . Lynch further testified that Dr. met him when he returned to London fromi Birmingham with nitro glycerine. He had ; npt seen any of the persons before except ; Dr. Gallagher ahd Whitehead. • Lynch ddenthied the hoy he saw with Whitehead iu the factory of the lattejapti Birminghom. The witness said that when Whitehead was loading the nitro-glycerine into fche Rubber bags he told him a man the same morning had taken sixty pounds of the liquid. Both Dr. Gallagher and Whitehead spoke of sending another man to London, but did not mention any name The witness spoke in a weak and indistinct voice, mid at'one time appeared about to faint At the concjufion of the testimony, and while the depositions were being "gMßi’Bggttrramy, Trstf-Was removed from the oodrt-room. - ..... .