An Irish-American, believed to be "No. 1," the organiser of
the Invincibles who tried to murder Mr. Forster, and who did murder Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, has been arrested. He escaped when the Phoenix Park criminals were seized, and fled to America. There he has been watched for the last fourteen years by Scotland Yard detectives,— the authorities not only " wanting " him for the murder, but believing him to be likely to organise dynamite out- rages. A fortnight or so ago they received news that he had sailed for Europe with several associates, and from the moment " No. 1 " and his friends landed at Genoa they were kept under police surveillance. "No. 1" (Tynan) was arrested in bed at Boulogne at 4 o'clock on Monday morning, and simultaneously two of his confederates, Kearney and Haines, were seized by the police at Rotterdam, and an American named Bell was taken in charge at Glasgow. The event which precipitated the arrests was the discovery by the police of a dynamite factory. The two men seized at Rotterdam had rented a small house near Antwerp, and had conveyed there a quantity of chemicals, out of which a large stock of dynamite was in process of making. Something alarmed them, however, and they fled from Belgium. When the police broke into the house they found enough dynamite to destroy the whole town of Antwerp.
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