VICTIMS OF A "PHYSICAL FORCE" POLICY.

What followed in the next few years is a matter of history. At irregular intervals the news of dynamite explosions in different parts of England, was flashed over the wires that spanned the two continents beneath the broad waters of the great Atlantic. So, too, was the news of the death, or capture and subsequent imprisonment, of those supposed to have been primarily concerned in these affairs. Oftentimes the arrests were made under circumstances which could lead to no other belief than that the victim had been deliberately betrayed. Between 1881 and 1885 twenty-nine Irish revolutionists were sent from America into English prisons, and in almost every instance the suspicion was so strong as to almost amount to a certainty that these victims were betrayed to the government, against which their attack was to be directed, before they had left the vessel which had carried them across the ocean. This is the record:

Date of
Sentence.		 Name. Crime. Sentence.
1881.
May James McGrath
James McKevitt		 Attempt to blow up
Liverpool Town Hall.		 Life.
20 years.
1882.
Jan. 31 John Tobin Illegal possession of
nitro-glycerine.		 7 years.
July 31 Thomas Walsh Illegal possession of
nitro-glycerine.		 7 years.
1883.
May 28
July		 Thomas Gallagher
A. G. Whitehead
H. H. Wilson
John Curtin
William Tansey
Pat Noughton
Pat Rogerson
James Kelly		 Illegal manufacture of
nitro-glycerine
at Birmingham
and transfer of it to
Weston House in
Galway.		 Life.
Life.
Life.
Life.
14 yrs.
8 yrs.
12 yrs.
2 yrs. H. L.
July 30 Timothy Featherstone
Dennis Deasy
Pat Flannigan
Henry Dalton		 Illegal possession of
infernal machines.		 Life.
Life.
Life.
Life.
Dec. 21 James McCullough
Thomas Dewanney
Peter Callahan
Henry McCann
Terrance McDermott
Dennis Casey
Pat McCabe
James Kelly
James Donnelly
Patrick Drum		 Outrages in Glasgow in
January, 1883.		 Life.
Life.
Life.
Life.
Life.
7 yrs.
7 yrs.
7 yrs.
7 yrs.
5 yrs.
1884.
July 29 John Daly
J. F. Egan		 Illegal possession of
infernal machines.		 Life.
20 yrs.
1885.
March Patrick Levy Explosion at Mill
street barracks.		 1 yr. H. L.
May 18 J. G. Cunningham
H. Burton		 Explosion at Tower of
London, etc.		 Life.
Life.
Nov. 18 J. Wallace, alias Duff Murder at Solihall. 20 yrs.

This was a total of thirty-two men convicted of participation in dynamite explosions. The conviction of Wallace for murder grew out of his arrest on the charge of conspiracy. Two of the unfortunates died shortly after their conviction, one was pardoned, and of the remainder there were on October the 1st, 1889, twenty-two still confined in British convict prisons. Besides these, two other delegates from the United States, Captain Mackey Lomasney and a mysterious man, known only as Peter Malone, were supposed to have been killed in the explosion on London Bridge on the evening of December the 13th, 1884, while one more of the number, James Moorehead, better known as Thomas J. Mooney, who, with others, managed the explosion in Whitehall in 1883, was successful in escaping to New York. Some time after his return to the United State he made a full statement of the manner in which he was sent abroad for dynamite work, and furnished with money and methods of introduction to the agents of destruction on the other side of the Atlantic.