TRACKED BY INVINCIBLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1787, 13 September 1884, Page 4

TRACKED BY INVINCIBLES.

On June 25 a powerfully-built Irishman named Reid presented himself, in a state of intense excitement, at the Plymouth Police-station and claimed protection. He declared that ho was being tracked by Invisibles, and that his life was in danger. He left Dublin by the steamship Upupa on Saturday for London; but he left the vessel at Falmouth unci journeyed to Plymouth by train, being afraid to complete the voyage. About two years ago he said he was in Brooklyn, and was accustomed to frequent a public-honse in Poltwen-street resorted to by IrishAmerican Fenians. He returned to Ireland a few weeks before Brady and Kelly were arrested for the Phcenix Park murders, and he supposed the. brotherhood must have come to the conclusion that he related to the Dublin policH the conversations he had overheard at Brooklyn, After returning to Dublin, Reid was employed in a smithy at Inchicore, a mile outside Dublin, and from that time till now he believed he was suspected of having set the police on the scent, On Whit-Monday he became aware he was a marked man. Some one who met him asked if his name was James Reid. He replied in the affirmative. Tho other then gave him a scrap of paper and ran away. On tho paper was written: " Look out, or you aro a dead man." A short limo afterwards he had another piece of paper given him, warning him to beware of Crave lane, through which ho used to pass on his way to woi'k. He immediately determined to change his lodging and his route, but oven after that he was met near the works by a man who appeared to be in the Act of drawing a weapon from his pocket, Reid ultimately resolved to quit the country, and took passage in the Upupa. On leaving he states that he saw there was a conspiracy to kill hira. An American with a black moustache, who had been previously engaged in following him about, was on board the steamer. One night, when alone, the American drew near him, with his hand apparently grasping some weapon, Reid thereupon drew a knife and opened it. At Falmouth he quitted the vessel, but on leaching Plymouth he found he was still tracked, Ho then applied for police protection. The officer questioned Reid, but he was quite coherent in his statements. He was detained pending inquiries,