Show WHAT IS HIS NUMBER 1 Some Doubt Regarding Patrick Tynan HIS BROTHER ON THE COAST INSIDE FACTS FURNISHED FROM SAN FRANCISCO I II I F A Woman Connected With tlif Ty I b nuns who Carried Weapons for i tiLe Fenians In an Interview the I Brother Denies That PittrlcUs t Mind is Unbalanced San Francisco holds some of thg loose ends of Irelands tragic story the last chttpterMn which was the publication publica-tion of a book by Patrick J PTynan the longhidden jNo 1 Tynans brother ther Jv > Sin Is in line city and has been in the stale for a yirHe is claimant of a bhae in the property ofaged Dr Tynan of Modesto whose wanderings nnd ultimate end are yet to be explained ex-plained to tihe satisfaction of his relatives rela-tives and friends There is there also a large circle of Tynans youthful acquaintances and friends One family lived next door to the alee patriot for twenty years During all bat time he was never known to be a zealous advocate of fiYedom and was never suspected of important connection with the Fenian t brotherhood His only known friends among tihohc interested in tffe bause WMV James OConnor the promiiwat Irish journalist and Carey who ifter ward turned informer and dubbed Ty nan the Mysterious No 1 Mrs Mary Byrne the widow o Frank Byrne who was a ringleoxler of the Invincibles is greneradly b livd to be the woman who carried crred tho knives from London to Dublin which ttwe used t murder Caven disfi and Burke She is now dying at Providence H 1 Believing that She had only a few days to live she made < i statement Thursday in which shed she-d lared that Parnell had absolutely i io connection with th Invincibles arid that Tynan Is a fnuul and that he is not No 1 But of all the women who were in tlmately connected with tine various parJiasnentary and physical force movements in Ireland none did mare service than one who now is in San Francisco destitute and almost friendless friend-less Her name is or was before a dis asiimus marriage Ellen Byrne She was not alone so far as family is i concerned con-cerned in her devotion r the Emer lId Isle Her brother Hugh Byrne Who was well known t all the leading Irishmen Ir-ishmen of ttie country in general and San Fmnoisoo in particular had to flee from Ireland to escape imprisonment i imprison-ment and mme ultimately I t Oalifor cia where he died Arwttoer brother Mdcihael Byrne who came to tfois country a few years ago wa involved in the Fenian movement and it is said that his connection with the Phoenix park horror was very direct di-rect He died at Fresno two years ago under another name The Byrne family lived within a stancs throw of Patrick Tynan and were known throughout the kingdom as the Nailer Byrnes Tiheir father kept a small forge in Stone View a street near where Tynan subseiueatly kept his circulating library Although the family was poor Hugh Byrne mdnias d to pick up as a boy a libtle Laitin and Greek and tervrird thoroughly educated himself He was a coach of Trinity college students and before he was much over 20 years old I tie was looked upon as a genius His fame spread among the better cliss 1ete with the Home Rule movement move-ment and wihen the Fenian societies so-cieties were springing up on ail sidc3 Hugh who was now a confident of James Stephens the leader was sent into Wexford and its environments environ-ments as a chief organizer His success was remarkable and he was looked I up to by the centers as a invaluable manWhen II i When the bombshell dropped into their ranks Jn the early sixties and wholesale arrests were being made Hugh managed to escape from the I country to America where he led a reckless Bohemian life He joined the Walker expedition and with that band of adventurous spirits wandered about Central America until the abandonment abandon-ment of the original scheme and the orgna execution of Walker In this city Hugh Byrne was a professor 1 pro-fessor at St Marys college He devoted 1 de-voted his spare moments to journalism p journal-ism and wrote several clever stories poems and essays He died in Oakland Oak-land in 1882 Several papers detail ing the movements of the illfated Walker expedition were left by him and are now in the hands of a family which helped him I was through the intimate connection connec-tion of her brother with the Fenian movement that Ellen Byrne was induced in-duced to aid the cause as a carrier of weapons and ammunition The pikes were generally forged in ome obscure portion of the city of Dublin or in a lonely suburb One of the t lorely leading pike I makers at the time was Flynn the blacksmith who is now In this city He declares that he will never cut his long hair until Ireland Is free Ellen Byrne was intrusted with the secrets of 4 these forges and i was her duty to t collect the weapons at each forge and after secreting them beneath the folds i rif her dress carry tihem to the main rendezvous in London or to the houses of the centers who distributed them to the members of the club of which they were the heaa During these perilous expeditions El len Byrne often exposed herself to the worst of dangers I she had been arrested I ar-rested and the weapons found on her perspn the lightest sentence she could jmve expected would have been pena servitude for life On one occasion she was removing a txipply of weapons and ammunition from the Irish capital to Kingstown a distance of about six miles I was customary to walk while on nee journeys jour-neys but owing to a sudden storm she tfcok the train The cars had no sooner soon-er rolled out of the station than she was approached by two men whom she recognized rec-ognized immediately as government agents The papers in her possession would have been sufficient by themselves them-selves to have sent her to prison fo OJfe Nevertheless she kept her nerve and though she knew she was suspect nerve d she kept up a lively conversation 4 jvith the officers and disarmed suspic 1 ionsMost suspc Most of her actual work was done while James Stephens was at the head of affairs to her aair According story Ty nan did not cut much of a figure in those days tose After the failure of the Fenian movement move-ment Ellen Byrne continued to reside in Kingstown close to Tynans library until June 1STi when she came t Am Srlca For a year she resided In New York where she 1 was entertained by J ODonovan Rossa and other leadlhg Irish exiles > John James Tynen brother bf the al Jeged No 1 works in a saloon oh Kearney street near Pine He as of imtdium stature and portly build and is apparently about 45 years of age He arrived in this city from Chile about a i yeT ago Tihe main cause of his ag Tle man cu hi coming com-ing here was the mysterious disappearance disappear-ance of Dr Thomas E T 3pt Toma Tynan the wealthy physician of Modesto who dropped out of sight on Oct 15 1892 John Tynan says he is red to prove Tis relationship to the missing doctor whom he hails as uncle He is positive I that th doctor is or was his fathers brother and tells a plausible story r 17 Jlrs Tynan i the only person who I sWndsbetween thenephews and i the I I jSijjsicians fortune the other cjaim 1 I ant being the doctors stepdaughters i My reason for oellevelng tha I amt i f i II I c h Dr Tynans nephew said Iftie claimant claim-ant c i that my father hn n brother Tlnomas E Tynan Tviho left his home in Ireland whom about 18 years of age and is supposed to have come to Anir le Since none of his relatives have ever heard of him but on seeing Ills pictures In the San Francisco papers pa-pers while I a in Peru I was struck by his resemblance to my brother Besides Be-sides the remarkable similarity of the careers of Dr Tynan and my uncle is to be taken tato account My uncle T before I left home always expressed ex-pressed a desire to study medicine I believe Dr Tynan i at present in Ireland landMy My brother Patrick also resembles Dr Tynan He is now in New York where tie ihas been prominent in city politics since his arrival in this country coun-try after the Phoenix park murder He ds O was employed in the customho of New York and is 52 years of age He is positive that we are the nephews of the missing doctor nepews John Tynan has little to say regarding regard-ing the book just published by his brother He was aware ttiati his brother bro-ther Ua been at work on the book for a number of years but of the contents the was ignorant With references the dispatcnes giving giv-ing tfiie interviews Wilt Ford md Egan Jofoh Tynan had this to say uWJlen Mr Ford says my brother never nev-er knew Parnell he tells a untruth I was pre nt witfa my brother in KinKStoivn in 1S74 1pn Parnell was making a light for a county seait ta large l meeting held dn Temperance hall Isaac Butt introduced Parnell to my brother and myself Mr Egans remarks marks to the effect that my brother is not in his right mind are all bosSi Some three or four years ago Pat i Tynan sent letters to this city stating hat he was getting out a book on the InvinclbJes The tone of the letters led the receivers to believe that the work was t be handled from a naitaon jallstic point of view For this and i mialny other reasons the Irish people i a prone t suspect that Tynans plans have ben clhanged within the past year or 0 Tih cause of this change isunknown I i li The story of the Phoenix park murj dens a Tynuois book tells it has already I al-ready been printed by the Chronicle I thaivinig been telegraphed from New York but there are other interesting I chapters notably that which describes the rescue of James Stephens Incidentally dentally Tynan refers to the Hiead center I cen-ter as a traitor Prominent Irishmen of this city are suspicious of Tsjan and are very much I inclined to the belief that e is not the missdng No 1 I is said that I the mysterious individual is a man named Sheridan or Shurdan and that he is in all probability in this country and may be heard from any da Carey undoubtedly knew everything i conneobed with the plotto murder Cay I endish and Burke When he turned informer in-former he probably told everything he knew ito the government officials AI I theory has foeen put forth that Tynan I vnto is now chaged witlh being in the I employ of the Tories was Induced to accept the title of No 1 in order to obtain tlhe sympathy of the patriots on I j this side of the te Since his arrival ar-rival in this country the has undoubtedly undoubt-edly prospered and been actively engaged en-gaged in Irjsh affairs He attended the great Land League convention in Boston i Bos-ton some years ago and a in many ways upheld his reputation for pafrij otism It is a well known fact that the I Engtlistti government has been apprised of several secrets of the American wing I of the Irish patriots during late years I Men prominent in the organization say openly te information ithat Tynan was the source of I |