The French Government have refused to extradite Tynan, and he
has been released unconditionally. It is stated that the grounds for this decision were :—(1) The descrip- tion of "No. 1" does not agree with Tynan's appearance ; (2) even if the identity were proved, the evidence against him is too weak to justify extradition ; (3) in any case the decennial period of "prescription" covers the Pl3cenix Park murders committed in 1882. Tynan may therefore return to America or, we presume, if he likes may continue to arrange dynamite plots from any hotel in Boulogne or Calais which will take him in. The laws against the use of dynamite are evidently very ineffectual. Why cannot the nations agree that the use of dynamite or conspiracy to use dynamite shall forfeit in every case the right of asylum? Of course, the proof would have to be strict, but society ought to put a special stamp of abhorrence on the dynamiter.
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