mittee, and of Feeley and Boland,
his aids, was subsequently stated by men who knew, men of honor and
integrity, men whose word in commercial transactions was considered as
good as their bond, as being in the immediate neighborhood of the
enormous total of one hundred thousand dollars.

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:

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_Date of | | |
Sentence._ | _Name._ | _Crime._ |_Sentence._
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1881. | | |
May |James McGrath |Attempt to blow up |Life.
|James McKevitt | Liverpool Town Hall. |20 years.
1882. | | |
Jan. 31 |John Tobin |Illegal possession of |7 years.
| | nitro-glycerine. |
July 31 |Thomas Walsh |Illegal possession of | 7 years.
| | nitro-glycerine. |
1883. | | |
May 28 |Thomas Gallagher |Illegal manufacture of |Life.
|A. G. Whitehead | nitro-glycerine |Life.
|H. H. Wilson | at Birmingham |Life.
|John Curtin | and transfer of it to |Life.
July |William Tansey | London Expo