Show Ij DYNAMITE DEVILS The Story Told by Captain Plielau AN INTERESTING NAERATIVE Latest Concerning the Stabbing She California DeadlockOregon NotesOur Mollie Phelans Story KANSAS CITY January lThe interview inter-view with Captain Phelan heretofore mentioned as published in the Journal of this city December 1st is devoted chiefly to the publication of a plot to blow up a steamer and a description of the manner of manipulating tbir mysterious mys-terious dynamite machine The story as told by Captain Phelan is substantially substan-tially as follows In June 1SS3 he made voyage to Europe to secure information in-formation which would prevent the extradition ex-tradition of P J Sheridan the Irish agitator and his removal to England He visited Paris and accomplished his mission Meanwhile however the British Brit-ish government abandoned the effort to I extradite Sheridan and the matter i dropped Continuing the story Phelan said Before leaving New York he eta 1 et-a number of Irish agitators among them John P Kearney who blew up the Caledonian Railway station at Glasgow and afterwards escaped to America He sailed in the Belgravia and Kearney was to follow three days later in the Queen and they were to meet in Edinburgh He new that there was plan to blow up the Queen uften the passengers landed at Liverpool When the men met at Edinburgh Phe lan asked Kearney why he had not carried car-ried it out The latter replied that he had placed a sufficient quantity of dynamite to blow up the pyramids in the vessels hold but when the ship arrived at Liverpool she anchored in the stream and the passengers were taken in a tender Kearney was not permitted to go into the hold so he came away leaving in the vessel fifteen pounds of dynamite which would I probably explode about two weeks later and imperil hundreds of lives Phelan I determined to go to Liverpool and I w m the officers Kearney protested that that would be suicidal Phelan however persisted visited the Queen f ed tY informed the officers and learned thai they had received a caBle message from New York fifteen minutes after the vessel landed describing the plot which led to the discovering of the explosive and saving the vessel Phelan remained re-mained a day or two at Liverpool avrarc that he was being constantly con-stantly shadowed by detectives lie was approached by Inspector Marsh of Liverpool head constable Murphy of Ireland alsoMr Jenkinson who had charge of the criminal prosecution prose-cution in Ireland all of whom tried to i get him into the service of the government govern-ment They told him the names of several prptended Irish patriots who were working for the government and he began to see how the authorities secured some of their information He could notconjecture bow they discov ered the Queen plot as Kearney said it was khown only to Rossa Kearney and himself He supposed some one dropped upon Kearneya plans in New I York Concluding his narrative Phe Ian said he was finally permitted to leave Liverpool When he arrived at GlasgoW he found his valises had I been broken open and searched done he thought by the man who introduced himself in Edinburgh as James Powers and whom Phelan believed lieved was a British detective who had shadowed him from New York and en eavored to get 4nto his confidence Kearney had to lay very low but Phelan succeeded in getting him out of Eng land by disguising himself as Kearney and throwing the officers off the track The captain also described the mechanism mechan-ism of the deadly battery The machine is simple but works with fatal precision It consists of a reservoir of acid wnich drips upon a tube enveloped in sheets of tissue paper It takes a minute for the acid to eat through teacn sheet of paper In this case 120 sheets were rapped around the tube when the last sheet is eaten through the acid runs down the tube and upon the percussion cap beneath and then the explosion The machine is noiseless and almost infallible in its working a terrible injury Speaking of himself the captain said lIe was a dynamiter outandout and belonged to the Irish National society and was obedient to their call having participated in many of their plans for terrorizing the English government He determined to return to Liverpool and save the Qitetn in order to urotect the lives of hundreds of people who would sail on the next voyage Many of these were his own countrymen men women and children going to join their friends in America |