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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.