The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-24 00:00:00

THE PARDONED FENJANS.
tIITSAYINW.

A correspondent of the Preessres Joansai, with two
other., had an interview on Thursday morning with the
convicts Melody and Condon, who have just been Par-
doned on credit-ion that they shall not dwell in anY pert
of Her Majesty's dominion.. The interview took plea
at Portland convict establishment, Condon (or Shore)
being the first man seen by his visitors He said he had
pi fiend no punishment while in conlinemsat, because he
had tried to avoid it by earning none. He had conformed
to the rules, and had acted quietly and with self-respect
Some time ago be was not in very rood health, and his
dad was clanged, and he 'reproved. He had been engaged
in bookbinding. He said be should be very glad to visit
his Mends is Dublin. London, or Làverpool, but he WM
anxious not in any war to infringe what had been said to
him by the American Minister. He wet afraid that there
might be demonstrations which might do others harm
He was not very drone. and should like to have wsdicia
opinion as to whether he wee fit for the voyage to
America. He strzs4c:ndernned "the system" to which
he had been still but said the governors and officials
had been kind to Melody was next seen, and
shocked his Amatory by his having hair which was quite
white, though he is only 3b years old. He said he had
...mid winch musialunent." "He had been irritable,"
he said, "hut they ere rather glad of that than otherwise
he" and some of them take advantage of it. I ant horii
a perfectly innocent man, and it is enough to make a
fellow irritable" MeLrely further emphatically denied
that he bad anything whatever to do with the Manchester
business Nothini (sari the corresPondantl struck the
vlsitati so mesh as the contrast in the carriage and bear.
lag of Oradea and Melody--Coadon in a remarkable
degree—end the thieves, forgers, and murderers with
whom they are and have been herded And let it be
borne in mind that I am writing of men who have borne
this odious bondage for ten years.

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It may be remembered the United States Government,
beeked by the retort or Congress, made an appeal to Her
Majesty's Government to raw. the Fenian prisoners,
Credos and Idelod ,Y and that at last, the English
Government m tedasen to their release on coorbtion that
they shedd sot melds within Her Majesty's Dominion's
Milady wanted to visit his friends in Ireland, end Mr.
Both on the pert of the Home Rulers, was ready to
give his word there should to no demonstra ,tion •
hut the Goverament would not consent to the prisoner
Moto Ireland. Preparations hare lately been midi
diecharp cd Condon and Melody, the Government
peovidiag sace Elk a ocepids batfittiopplbbi by L. H.

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Ruses% Fartmee W• and an at of manar•
Melody's brother has been staying eymoutti (Km
King's, Rath-street) during the past veer& and be, with a
Zelation from the "Political Prisons's Ovranisatiott,"
an interview with the pri•iners on Tbureday tut
week. From that society the primmera alao had a grant
of money. The time of tbe departure was kept a pro.
found worst; hut on Tuesday morning they were driven
down in a carriage, in charge of Mr. Oofh", daaa°
governor ; Mr. Brooks, chief warder ; and Mr. Acott,
principal meesetuter, of Portland Prison, the whole of the
l't7 being in Plain clothes. The Fenian. are both line-
looking fellows, Condon a tall dark man, with dark hair,
Melody tall and pleasant-looking. with silver hair, and
they both look healthy, and none the worse for their
imprisonment They left by the psr train, the railway
company providing • cameg, in which they trainAW
through to Southampton without chump and Si South.
ampton they embarked on Tueedayevening in the North-
Garman Lloyd steamship tioe,g, (Amain Neysaterr. fog
New York. They are the last of the Pali= prieutere.
and may we never be troubled with any more.
Condon and Melody arrived at Southampton on Tues-
day afternoon in a earriaie specially set apart for them
by the 8 iuth.Western Railway Company, in charge of
r. Cachet, deputy-governor of Patient Priaon ; Kf•
Brooks. Chief warder; and Mr. iitoott, principal warder:
both are dercnbed as meti of tine stature and healthy
appearance, hut the utmost secrecy was observed aa to
their movement., and only when they were on board skit
woo the fact admitted that they had been eagettaa and
provided for. They went, it seems, to Ractlay's
betel—
one of the grit in the town. A Snot-clams Puente ea WI"
the North German Lloyd's steamship Mosel had been
taken for them, and, when they were safely on bur& the
Queen's pardon was handed to them, and the camel was
expecmA to sail about two o'clock Wednesday morning.
These en-prisoners, it may be remembered, were c°°-
Tided and aentantoed to pastel wettede for life, for
complicity in the attack on the Priem am' abea Sergeant Brett was killed in the streets of IlLanabsator
eleven yams ago.