DYNAMITE TRIO
By GEORGE T. PARDY
A True Story Unrevealed for Years.
ALL, dark and for
bidding, on the
banks of the St.
Lawrence river
loom the massive
stone walls of King
ston penitentiary
where the desper
ate criminals and
all long term con
victs of the Province of Ontario, Can
ada, are confined. Within its gloomy
precincts, occupying separate cells,
are three men whose sentences are
for life. English law, just hut merci
less, has seized them in its iron grip,
a grip never to be relaxed until the
angel of death strikes the fetters from
the limbs of the prisoners.
The crime for which these three
men are undergoing expiation was no
ordinary one. It involved a conspir
acy against the British government by
•which, through the use of dynamite, a
reign of terror was to be inaugurated
throughout Canada, and thousands of
innocent lives sacrificed. The inter
vention of fate, Providence—call it
what you will—prevented the outrage
from being successful, but the failure
of the plot was not owing to any lack
of zeal on the, part of the human in
struments employed to carry out the
design. To Detective John Wilson Mur
ray is due the credit of having gath
ered together the evidence which shed
light on the past careers of the “dyna
mite trio.” Evidence which proved
them to be outside the rank of ordi
nary criminals who execute desperate
deeds in the hope of financial gain,
placed them in the category of
men who would willingly wade
through seas of blood to accomplish
their political aims.
At seven o’clock on the evening of
April 21, 1900, the little Canadian town
of Thorold, lying along the waterway
of the Welland canal, within easy
walking distance of the Niagara fron
tier, was shaken to its foundation by
two terrific explosions.
Masses of solid rock were torn up
by the shock, immense spouts of wa
ter leaped high in the air, window
panes were shattered into minute
crystals and for a few awful seconds
•the firm earth trembled as though in
the throes of an earthquake. For miles
around the people, terror stricken and
amazed, waited dumbly for the after
math, a descent of death and destruc
tion, which would sweep them and
their homes into the black chaos of ob
livion. But it did not come, the blind
gods of chance had averted a calamity
almost too horrible to contemplate.
One of the eye-witnesses of the ex
plosion was Miss Euphemia Constable,
a 16-year-old girl who lived with her
parents about 300 yards from the lock
No. 24. She was going to see a friend
across the canal about 6:20 o'clock,
and when nearing the bridge, which is
by the dock, caught sight of two men.
Then came the thunderous roar of
the first exploding charge. After the
first shock Miss Constable lost con
sciousness and knew nothing of the
second explosion. Both of the valises
lowered into the lock contained dyna
mite. They were fired by fuses and
the explosions were not quite simul
taneous. They broke the castings on
the head gate, tore up the banks on
both sides of the lock, knocked peo
ple over who were sufficiently near,
smashed windows and shook the coun
try roundabout. Water surged upward
in huge volumes, but the gates held.
The dynamiters had blundered by low
ering the dynamite into the gate pits
instead of into the gate holes. Experts
later s’howed that there was not suf
ficient resistance to the explosive mat
ter, and this fact alone prevented the
dire disaster that would have followed
if the dynamite had done the work
planned for it and had smashed the
gates.
A third man who had been seen
around with them before the explo
sion, and who was staying at the Ros
li house, at the falls, was also ar
rested. The third suspect gave his
name as Karl Dallman, and the two
men first secured declared themselves
to be John Xolin and John Walsh. The
three prisoners were taken to Welland
jail and guarded by soldiers, while
other soldiers patrolled the canal.
Murray, who had been sent for imme
diately after the explosion, arrived on
the scene and hastened to the jail.
He communicated at once with Scot
land Yard and sent descriptions and
photographs of the prisoners to the
police of London, England. Xolin and
Walsh seemed unmistakably to be
from across the sea, and Walsh had
particularly the manner and speech of
a man just over. In search of infor
mation regarding the movements of
the men op this continent he visited
New York and saw friends there, both
in and out of the police business. He
also made Journeys to Philadelphia,
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vhither the trail led. The results of
lis persistent quest were as follows:
In the year 1S94 three young men
et sail for America. They were John
>.’oIin, a young machinist, John Kow
n, a mechanic, and John Merna, a
nechanic. They arrived in New York
nd on May 17, 1894, Merna declared
lis intention of becoming a citizen
f the United States, took out his first
lapers and gave his residence as No.
1 Peck slip, New York. Nolin went
o Philadelphia,
The four Johns, after spending a
ew days in Philadelphia, went to New
fork. They stopped at the lodging
louse of John M. Kerr, 45 Peck slip,
nd hung about Nhw York until De
ember, 1899, when Rowan returned
0 Ireland, and went to work at his
rade in Dublin. Nolin and Walsh ap
lied to the South Brooklyn branch of
he Amalgamated Society of Machin
3ts for donation money, which
mounts to $3 per week for those out
f work, a id the request was complied
,'ith by John A. Shearman, secretary
f the society, who worked in the
’ioneer Machine works in Brooklyn,
a the latter part of this month Nolin,
Valsh and Merna went to Washing
on, D. C. Nolin remained there a
hort time and then went on to Rich
iond, Va., where he obtained a job as
tter in a foundry.
On Christmas day, 1899, Merna
rent to work as bartender in a Wash
lgton saloon, at 212 Ninth street, of
rhich Joseph McEnerney was pro
rietor, and on January 1 Walsh was
iven a similar position in the same
aloon. They relieved each other at
re bar and shared a room together
ver the saloon. They worked as bar
mders for McEnerney through Janu
ry and February and along into
[arch, while Nolin stayed on in the
ichmond foundry. Early in March
lari Dallman had registered at the
tafford house, in Buffalo, and had
len gone away.
On Monday evening, March 12, Mer
a was found dead in his room over
le saloon.
Somewhere about April 10, 1900,
olin received a communication from
1 lodge to which he belonged, known
i secret circles as the Napper Tandy
ub. It was a Clan-na-Gael organi
ition and the members met at Tom
’core's hall, corner of Third avenue
ad Sixteenth street, in New York,
olin and Walsh were both affiliated
with this club, having been introduced
into it by a man named Jack Hand, a
sailor. Nolin’s instructions, sent to him
in Richmond, were to go to Washing
ton, get John Walsh, and go with him
to Philadelphia, where, at the Phila
delphia & Reading railroad station, at
7 p. m. on Saturday, April 14, they
would meet a third man who would
give them further instructions. Nolin
obeyed the summons promptly and
hastened to Washington from where,
accompanied by Walsh, he went to
Philadelphia as instructed. As they
stood in the station at the appointed
time a well-dressed, stout man came
up and accosted them. Their replies
being satisfactory the stranger said:
"I am the man you want to see,” and
engaged them in earnest conversation.
At the conclusion of their talk the
stout man handed $100 to Nolin, with
two railroad tickets and sleeping car
coupons from Philadelphia to Buffalo,
over the Lehigh Valley railroad. He
then left them and Nolin and Walsh
took the Lehigh Valley train for Buf
falo. They arrived in the latter city
at noon on April 15, went direct to
the Stafford house and registered as
John Smith of New York and Thomas
Moore of Washington. They were as
signed to room 88, and immediately
ordered up drinks. While waiting for
the refreshments there was a knock
at the door, and Dallman stepped into
the apartment. He introduced himself
end a satisfactory understanding was
reached between the trio. Dallman told
them to prepare for an early start next
day, and after breakfast on the follow
ing morning, April 16, he gave to No
lin and Walsh two canvas grips, or
telescopes.
In each of these grips were about
80 pounds of dynamite, mixed to the
consistency of stiff dough. Fuses
were with each cake, lying on top,
but unattached. It was shortly after
this that the near-catastrophe occurred.
Karl Dallman, the arch plotter in
the conspiracy, turned out to be an
even more picturesque character than
Muiray had suspected before com
mencing his investigations. For, fol
lowing up one clue after the other, the
detective became aware that the so
called Dallman of Trenton, New Jer
sey, was none other than Luke Dillon
of Philadelphia, who had figured
prominently in the world-famous Cro
nin case. Eillon was a member of the
executive commit toe of the Clanna
Gael, and defended that organization
and publicly championed it, achieving
more than national notoriety when, in
his official capacity, he went to Chica
go at the time of the murder of Dr.
Cronin. At that time he denounced
Alexander Sullivan, raised funds for
the prosecution of those accused of
Cronin's murder; advocated the throw
ing off of the oath of secrecy, so far
as necessary to run down the assas
sins, went on the witness stand, and
by his testimony revealed the secret
of the Triangle, the chief three who
had ruled as the executive of the Clau
na-Gael; made public the charges
against Sullivan and fought through
out on the side of the anti-Sullivan
wing. The identification was made
absolute and final. Men who knew
Luke Dillon, who had worked day by
day near him, visited Karl Dallman
and identified him positively as the
former high official of the Clan-na
Gael.
But above all Murray’s careful, un
erring tracing of the chief suspect’s
career convinced the Canadian gov
ernment that Dallman and Dillon were
one. Originally Dillon was a shoema
ker. In 1881 he was working at his
trade at 639 Paul street, Philadelphia.
The members of the dynamite trio
were brought up for trial on May 25,
1900. With the mass of damning evi
dence accumulated by Murray’s pa
tient efforts and submitted to the
court, there could be but one result.
As the clock struck six on the even
| ing of May 26, the jury retired to con
sider the verdict. Four minutes later
they re-entered court and the three
prisoners were declared guilty. The
dynamiters were sentenced to impris
onment for life and taken to Kingston
penitentiary.
For two years after the trio entered
upon their prison life the general pub
lic knew nothing of the identity of
Karl Dallman. Then a Buffalo paper
made known the fact, telling of his
connection with the Cronin affair. The
story was denied by some of Dillon's
friends, who asserted that he had
been killed during the South African
war while fighting with the Boer ar
my against the British. But the real,
grim trut^'-lii that the once famous
leader or^lsUk, Clan-na-Gael is burled
alive within tb® walls of Kingston pen
itentiary.
(Copyright, 1908, by W. G. Chapman.)
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