From "The Graphic" - April 28, 1883. I can only upload five images at a time so I have had to spread these over two blog entries.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Dynamite Plot of 1883
From "The Graphic" - April 28, 1883. I can only upload five images at a time so I have had to spread these over two blog entries.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Dynamite Plot of 1883
My great grandfather Adam Mackie was a police inspector. He was one of the arresting officers in the Dynamite Plot. Described by some contemporary newspapers as "The Fenian Plot to Destroy London". I found a full transcript of the trial here.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?path=sessionsPapers%2F18830528.xml
It is the section beginning Reference Number: t18830528-620
There are some choice, if rather understated, quotes in the evidence of some police officers (not Adam)
I can't say if I said, "If you do not be very civil here you will get a rough Handling"—I had to request you to be civil, and I said it was a pity you did not know how to be more civil—I did not say, "I will have no d—d Yankee nonsense here"—I did say, "You must remember you are in England now and not in America," when I requested you to be more civil
I asked him a second time to give me an account of himself—I pressed him, and said that if he did not he would probably be put to inconvenience
A number of contemporary newspaper accounts of the trial can be found online - Google the words dynamite Gallagher Whitehead Curtin Wilson.
Later newspaper accounts suggest that those convicted were not well treated in prison. Here is an example from the New York Times of September 5, 1896, describing the return of Dr Thomas Gallagher to the USA on his release.
DR. GALLAGHER'S RETURN; HOME FROM HIS ENGLISH PRISON A RAVING MANIAC. Repulsed His Sister and Kicked His Brother -- Force Needed to Restrain Him -- Doctors Say He Bears Evidence of Inhuman Treatment -- A Wreck Physically as Well as Mentally -- To be Sent to an Institution.
Read the full text here. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E7DA1E31E033A25756C0A96F9C94679ED7CF
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?path=sessionsPapers%2F18830528.xml
It is the section beginning Reference Number: t18830528-620
There are some choice, if rather understated, quotes in the evidence of some police officers (not Adam)
I can't say if I said, "If you do not be very civil here you will get a rough Handling"—I had to request you to be civil, and I said it was a pity you did not know how to be more civil—I did not say, "I will have no d—d Yankee nonsense here"—I did say, "You must remember you are in England now and not in America," when I requested you to be more civil
I asked him a second time to give me an account of himself—I pressed him, and said that if he did not he would probably be put to inconvenience
A number of contemporary newspaper accounts of the trial can be found online - Google the words dynamite Gallagher Whitehead Curtin Wilson.
Later newspaper accounts suggest that those convicted were not well treated in prison. Here is an example from the New York Times of September 5, 1896, describing the return of Dr Thomas Gallagher to the USA on his release.
DR. GALLAGHER'S RETURN; HOME FROM HIS ENGLISH PRISON A RAVING MANIAC. Repulsed His Sister and Kicked His Brother -- Force Needed to Restrain Him -- Doctors Say He Bears Evidence of Inhuman Treatment -- A Wreck Physically as Well as Mentally -- To be Sent to an Institution.
Read the full text here. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E7DA1E31E033A25756C0A96F9C94679ED7CF
Friday, October 9, 2009
Khedive's Star - Arthur Edward Poole
Not a family heirloom, but something I picked up in an antique shop in Brighton in the late 1960s or early 1970s. As far as I could make out, the inscription round the rim read:
LIEUT A.E. POOLE 10TH RL HUSSARS
A Google search led me to the website of Dix Noonan Webb, numismatic auctioneers http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/auctionarchive/viewspecialcollections/itemdetail.lasso?itemid=38351 from where I gleaned the following:
Lot 692, 16 Dec 03
Category: CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
Estimate: £300-£350
Hammer Price: £520
Estimate: £300-£350
Hammer Price: £520
Description
Three: Major A. E. Poole, 10th Royal Hussars, later Military Knight of Windsor
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Lieut., 10th Rl. Hussars) rank corrected; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (Capt. & Qr. Mr., 10/Hussars); Coronation 1911 (Major, 22 June 1911) pitting and contact marks, therefore good fine and better (3) £300-350
Footnote
Arthur Edward Poole was born on 26 May 1850. He served in the ranks for 9 years and 96 days, and was appointed Hon. Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 2 December 1882. He served in the Soudan Expedition of 1884 (Medal), and in South Africa 1899-1900, including the relief of Kimberley; operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg; actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal 1900, including actions near Johannesburg; and operations in Cape Colony (Queen’s medal with four clasps). Appointed Camp Quartermaster at Aldershot in May 1901, he was promoted Honorary Major on 29 November 1901, and retired on 26 May 1905. He was appointed a Military Knight of Windsor on 26 February 1910 and remained as such until his death on 28 June 1930.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Bill Bailey cricket cup - 1
In 1930, Bill's team was awarded runner-up medals. Three years later, they had more success.
M.M. HOSP. C.C. COMPT
WINNERS
1933
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