“Claim Of Dullman,” British Daily Whig (Kingston). June 6, 1910. Page 05.
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THAT HE IS CONFINED AS A POLITICAL PRISONER
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His Reason for at First Refusing to Sit for a Photograph - He Has Given Up Hope of Coming Out of Penitentiary Alive
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When two photographers and out by the Canadian justice department at Ottawa, were recently taking the picture of prisoners in the penitentiary here, Carl Dullman, the leader of the dynamite plot to blow up the Welland canal ten years ago, refused to give the camera men a sitting, and was put in dungeon for disobedience. After a few hours Dullman reconsidered his decision and yielded, and went and faced the camera. It is now learned that Dullman raised a technical objection to being photographed, claiming that he was not an ordinary criminal, but a political prisoner, who had raised his hand against the government of Canada. He claimed that Sir Chancellor Boyd, the judge who tried him at Welland, had so intimated to the jury when he addressed that body after the evidence had been taken in the case. At the penitentiary, however, Dullman is recognized merely as a life prisoner, and just as a murderer whose sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment.
Many times since his incarceration, Dullman has declared that he never intended that there should be a loss of life in connection with the destruction of a portion of the canal. His object he has repeated was not murder, but to detract the attention of the Canadian government from the war in South Africa and force it to keep its soldiers at home to guard its waterways. He denies that he ever intended that his comrade, Nolan and Welch, should not live to tell the tale.
Dullman seems to have lost all hope of coming out of prison alive. He has served ten years within the walls of the big prison in Portsmouth, and can see ahead of him only the fate of his younger comrade, Welch, who died last year. His other comrade in crime, Nolan, is still alive and well. It was reported that he was dead, but the report is untrue.
