The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-02-17 00:00:00

THE ARRESTS IN DUBLIN.

THE PHCENIX PARIC MURDERS,

Baturday, the 10th, again saw the Courthouse at
Kilmainham crowded to its utmost capacity, and hun-
dreds who would gladly have submitted to any amount
of crushing and squeezing even to get a glimpse of the
prisoners were turned away from the doors. Rumours
during the week that more revelations were to be made,
raised public curiosity to an inordinate pitch, and before
twelve o'clock every inch of room in the body of
the court and galleries was filled; and among the occu-
pants of the latter were many ladies. Lord Carrington,
Lord Bangor, the Hon. Mr. Montmorency, Colonel
13ruce (Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabu-
lary), Mr. Jenkinson (chief of the Irish Criminal
Department), Colonel Carington, M.P., were among
the auditors. Detectives and constables, some in
nniform and some in plain clothes, maintained order,
had also kept clear the way leading into the building
from the crowds who literally besieged its entrance.
The magistrates, Dr. Keys and Mr. Woodlock,
took their seats at half-past twelve o'clock, when
the following prisoners were placed in the dock :
Pitsharris, the carman recently arrested; Thomas
Doyle, an artisan, arrested on the previous day;
Patrick Delaney, undergoing penal servitude for the
attack on Judge Lawson (he was placed outside the
dock, in front of it) ; James Carey, TX., 40 • Law-
rence Hanlon ; Daniel Delaney, house cFpenter, 37;
Timothy Kelly, coachbuilder, 20 • James Mullett,
publican, 30 ; Joseph Brady, ;tone cutter, 22;
_Joseph Mullett, clerk ;Edward O'Brien, shoemaker;
Michael Fagan, blacksmith.
The prisoners exchanged the usual greeting as they
todk their places in the dock, displaying all them
former nonchalance and indifference of demean-
our. Great sensation was produced in court when
Michael Kavanagh—who last Monday stood in the
dock—walked up the steps to the witness chair.
The effect on the occupants of the dock was elec-
trical. Every eye was riveted on him as he mounted
the few steps leading to the chair on the witness table.
Kavanagh looked neither to the right or to the left. He
hurriedly seized the Testament which the Clerk held
out to him and, having taken the oath, seated himself
in the chair, turned sharply round, facing the Crown
counsel.
Kavanagh is about 28 or 30 years of age, an intelli-
gent-looking man, with black hair and small black
beard. He was very pale, and as much as possible
kept his face turned from the prisoners in the dock.
Only on one occasion did they take any notice of him—
namely, when Doyle. met a statement of his with the
exclamation, "That's a
We take the following account of the day's proceed-
ings from the Times of Monday :
The first witness called was MICHAEL V •Tr
v AM, CU
owner, who deposed that on May 6 Pt Was at the Phondx-
park. He was engaged at public-hose in Dame-
street, whence he dr.e,-re first to Kell?, (another public-
house) in Th---r.;inas-street, and thence to the Royal Oak, in
l'at-kate-street. His passengers were Joe Brady, Tim
Itelly, and two others whose names he did not know, but
whom he knew by appearance. "One of them," said he
",is there," pointing to Patrick Delaney. "The other
Is not there." He knew Brady and Kelly before. Entering
the park by Island-bridge-gate, he drove straight along the
Conyngham-road. He came round the road opposite the
Viceregal-lodge, and turning to the left, wheeled round
the Phoenix monument, coming back towards the main
road to near the Gough me:cement. Nearly at the Gough
statue the four men got down. One of them, he could not
say which, on the journey said, " There was no sign of
'Skin.'" He knew the man who went by that nickname;
he was the owner of a cab. His nickname was "Skin the
Goat," and he was the prisoner Fitzharris. Witness saw
this man approaching in an opposite direction. Witness's
,four passengers got down either then or immediately before.
Lie stepped on the side of the road, with the horse's head.
towards Dublin. After some time he reversed the posi-
tion, putting the back of the car towards Dublin. He
was close to the path. The cab passed him and stopped
a long way beyond him, facing to Dublin. On a seat be-
side the road he saw Pat Delaney sitting, and on a seat
Opposite Sir. James Carey (whom he pointed out in the
dock). Brady and the other two went along the road
towards the Phamix, telling him to wait there, as the other
men (those on the seats, Delaney and Carey) might want
him. He spoke to Delaney, and asked what mission they
were on, and he replied, " Watching the Secretary." He did
not know which Secretary. His mare was then feeding with
a nose-bag, and he returned to her. A gentleman whom he
did not know spoke to James Carey. After that Delaney
told him to look sharp, and he took the bag off the mare,
and drove up the road towards where Brady and the others
were. Carey and the other man sat on one side of the car.
At that spot there were several men, among them Kelly.
After he was told to look sharp he saw two gentlemen
walking arm-in-arm on the left foot-way. One was a good
deal taller than the other. One, the taller, was gray.
He was inside, towards the grass. He soon passed them.
The fourth man on the car was in the crowd with Brady
and Kelly. When he came to the crowd he pulled up and
the two men (Carey and the other) got down. Some of the
group said, "It was the tall man." Witness did not get
down, but stayed on the side of his car. He was told to go
tin a little further, and he did so. He could not say which
of the men said, "It was the tall man." Carey and the
Other man on his car were then on the ground with the
others. As he was driving them to the group either Carey
or the other fman raised a white handkerchief. From the
time he started with Carey and the other man he never
got off. He knew a carman named Nowd, who passed
him while he was feeding the mare, driving towards
town. He spoke to witness. He had one passenger, a
kr. Nolan, whom witness knew. He saw either two
or three persons on bicycles coming from the Phoenix
towards town. Just about that time he heard one of the
gentleman say, "Oh I" He looked round and saw the gray
gentleman lying on the road. The other was standing with
an umbrella in his hand in the road. He did not see him
fall. The four men he had driven out then got on his car,
he taking the driver's seat. He drove down the Fifteen
Acres as fast as he could drive. Brady sat on his right
hand. He turned to the right outside the gate, and.
crossed the Liffey at a bridge of which he did not know
the name. He took the first turn on the right after going
out of the park gate, then turned to the left and crossed
the bridge. He drove towards Inchicore by a route
Lt. which he did not know, directed by Pat Delaney. The
first place he knew was Roundtown. He did not stop there,
but drove to where the Palmerston tram stops. Tim Kelly
got off there. He could not tell whether he said anything
to the others. He drove on to a publichouse in Leeson-park,
the first house to the left after crossing Leeson-bridge, where
all got off. He had some drink. Brady then paid him £l,
and he drove home. At some part of the route which he
did not know a carman belonging to Baggott-street stand
Passed him. Next day (Sunday) Brady came to him in
Townsend•street and gave him Z. 2. He afterwards bought
Witness some harness. After some time he got his
car repainted, sending the mare to grass. She was
a brown mare. On the night of the 27th of
November when Field was attacked, he was at the col-
lege. Brady engaged him there. They drove to Fleet-
street. Another man got on the car with Brady. He was
In the dock—the second man in the corner (Daniel Delaney).
He then drove tollardwicke-street, where they got down, and
One (he could not say which) told him to wait there. He
waited at the corner in Hardwicke-street, near Dorset-street.
TIM Kelly and Hanlon were at Hardwicke-street. He had seen
them previously on the quays speaking to Brady and Delaney,
and all had a drink together. He had seen Hanlon in the
exercise yard of the gaol since. Asked to point him out in
the dock, he said he could not; he wee not there. Joe
Brady and Tim Kelly returned after a short time and got
LIP on the car, he sitting 'on the driver's seat, and told
~oans to drive off quickly. Kelly had then no hat;
I"radY had one. Witness wore that day a white bat,
Which he changed with a man for a brown one. Kelly
Wore witness's hat part of the time. He drove past in the
direction of Dorset-street, and heard some parties roaring
Murder." Taking the first turn on the right, he drove
towards Seville-place, under the bridge, out on the quays,
sind across the swivel-bridge. Thence he went to Moss.
Street, and lastly to a hatter's at the head of Townsend-
street, where they both got off and went into the hatters.
Kelly came out with a hat on. They then drove to the
EU works, where they threw into the basin the "swords,
or whatefer they were," they had. He and Brady pre-
viously wrapped them in a newspaper. Witness threw
them in, throwing them nearly as far as he could. Thence
they drove to the corner of Hatch-street, where he got
Money. Before the 6th of May he had been once or twice
In the park with the same four men on his car. On those
occasions he enteced the park by the front gate. Before
that May be had been sworn a member of the society.
With him there was a man named Tom Doyle. He
Identified Doyle, the latest captured prisoner in the dock.
Next evening he was told by Doyle what he would have to
do. (Doyle : That's a lie.) Doyle told him he would have
to drive members of the society to boats or anywhere they
wanted to go. Before he was sworn in Doyle told him
Kelly was in the society. Kelly afterwards swore him in.
'ute was to pay Id. or 2d. a week to the society. He knew
James Mullett. Doyle told him Mullett and a lot of big
people were attached to it. He first drove Kelly with Joe
EradY. He then drove them to North Anne street, thence
tO the corner of Capel-street, where two persons whose
lasonea he did not know got on the car. (" There is one—
rat Delaney.") The other was the strange man of the
Park. Next they drove to John-street—a street eff
Barrack-street. He remained there about two hours and
half. The men were on the quay. When they came
back he had a drink with them in a public-house at the
corner, but did not remember the conversation. Brady always
Paid for the drink. He could not say how long before the
eth of may was his first drive to the park. He knew a con-
Stable named Guy, and met him in the park on that occa-
'ion when driving the four men. On the Bth of May he was
about an hour in Wrenn's, in Dame-street. He crossed
thence to the Munster Bank and saw the procession pass.
In Dame-street he was speaking to a Mr. Motley, and.
afterwards to Mr. Cummins. The four men who after-
wards drove to the park were then at Wrenn's. They got
LOP at Sycamore-alley. One (he could not say which) told
'Lira to pull over to the Munster Bank side. Thence they
drove to the Royal Oak, in Barrack-street. On cne occasion
Lae drove on a Saturday with Joe Brady to near the convent
Baggot-street. This was before the attack on Mr Field
and after the park affair. Ile drove Joe Brady, Fagan, and
a__big Man with gray whiskers. They got down and walked
around the corner. They afterwards got on the car again,
tlui drove to Bridge-street. There one of them got down—
. &Ran- He drove thence to Portobello HoteL They went
ere to get drink, but got none. Mr. Mullett gave him
:13flha in a black bottle. From Portobello he drove up
„"load from the tramway 'to Terenure. Oar. Mullett
'" away and came back again. He drove from Terenure
0 the corner just at York-street. There they got down
and entered a house, but he did not see what horse they
went into. One of them came out to call him to the
Publichouse in York-street. He got drunk and
. ove home. He drove Brady to Baggot-street on another
3ccasion. It was after that Sunday in the same week. He
brOya him to the same place and met Fitzharris there. He
„ad a car with him. (The prisoner Fitzharris: You are a
Vas.) Timothy Kelly and the big man was there. He knew
ne Mullett and Daniel Curley, but was not sure whether he
l'ast seen them there. On that second occasion—that is, the
after the Sunday—he went into the first publichonse off
square, in Baggot-street. He was in that house more
aaill once. Fitzharrls brought him in the second time. Ha
ed
eat Fitzharris about his business and he said it was Judge
waon.
c.pross-examined by Dr. Webb, who desired that Daniel
iia;rtleY might be placed in the dock-.--he turned informer on
Thursday. • That was the first time he had any corn-
'ulication with anyone about giving information.
The
Prisoner Doyle declined to ask the witness any ques-
tions, as also did Patrick Delaney.
, FCross-examined by Mr. Walsh: He was "fetched" to the
iastl9 the Monday morning after the park occurrence, when
Said he knew nothing about it. On a subsequent day— a
Sin " Bald°
Yle day "—he was again examined at the Castle.
Christmas he was there again with his horse and car,
Zit examined, but could not say how many times—not ten,
nothninossibly four or five times, and each time he said he knew
aro, g. At the Castle he saw some of the witnesses ex-
ired here' and among them Alice Carroll. He was
t4tehdtwoor three days after last examination, but didn't
San o
days Zad many weeks he was in prison. He believed two
elapsed.
Mr The prisoner Fitzharris declined to ask any questions.
wahu
Were off, on your oath, did you state to anyone you
•red £5OO and your liberty ?—I did not, on my oath.
13Y Dr; w
Other ca oai When I w.as,itleng.Seket the Castle- tete'
BMW,. brom rsthrefaiklinh' knew one, named
identifit not the other. The little girl Brophy was there,
ed Smith as the man who drove the car.
.".,01;Re•examined by Mr. Murphy: At Hardwlcke-street I
sPea
- 01) sit:latzh:Blirst house on the left hand side of
11%14
ocirssetEntrgeet and Frederick-street corneir. I don't
roPhY that night. '

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The Court then adjourned to Thursday, an applica-
tion by Dr. Webb that the adjournment should be
de die in diem being for the present refused, but the
Crown counsel promised that the proceedings should
be expedited as much as possible.
There was no demonstration by the pe outside
as the prisoners were removed to the gaol.

Fcall.

Mr. JOHN MOTTLEY, a hatter, deposed to seeing the last
witn.ess in Dame-street, after the Lord Lieutenant's pro-
cession passed on the 6th of May. He was at Wrenn's.
He spoke to Kavanagh. There were then no persons on his
car,

Mr. Cummins, a pawnbroker, also deposed to seeing
Kavanagh in Dame-street on the 6th of May.
Both before and after this witness was examined, Dr.
Webb objected to the relevancy of the evidence, contending
that it was not admissible legally, and even, if admissible,
was surplusage.

Mr. Murphy emphatically said they furnished important
links in the chain of evidence, and that he would trace the
progress of Kavanagh and his paSsengers step by step to the
scene of the murder. This elicited a burst of applause,
promptly checked by Dr. Keys saying if it were repeated he
would declare the sitting private.
WILLIAM OWD, 29, the carman referred to by Kavanagh
In his deposition, corroborated his statement. Kavanagh
halloed to him, otherwise he might have passed him by.

SAMUEL JOSEPH JACOB, a lad about 17 years of age, de-
posed that on the evening of the 6th May he was in the park,
on the road near the Viceregal lodge, going from the Phcenix
towards town. Where the Chapelizod road turns off from the
main road he saw a group of men wrestling. At first they
were all together in one grail). Two of that group fell on
the ground—one at a slight interval before the other.
When he came up to the bodies, one was on the road, the
other on the gravel pathway. When the two men fell he
glanced away for a moment and saw some of the others get
upon a car which was nearer the Phoenix than the place
of the struggle. He had not noticed this car before. After
the men fell, one of the others, going from one body to
the other, seemed to hit it. The others ran to the car and
got upon it. He went from the one above the road to the
other. He then ran to the ear, got on it, and it drove
away very fast along the Chapel'Zod-road. Witness saw
no other outside car along that road. He counted either
four or five besides the two who fell. There might have
been more, and some might have passed out of his sight
when he looked away. There was a clump of trees near
the bodies. When he approached the first body, which
was entirely on the road, there was no sign of life in it.
From his position, he saw blows given, but did not notice
any knives. The second body, lying on the pathway, had
a wound in the neck. The throat was cut. It was from
that body the man went to the other body. Before he
came up two men passed by, ohe in front of the other ;
both passed close to the bodies on the pathway opposite
him. He saw the men on the car as they turned into the
Chapelizod-road. Two young men on bicycles passed after
he came up to the bodies; and about the same time a
countrywoman (the Mrs. Sharpe of the witness Hands)
passed and spoke to him. The driver, when the man got
up, was in the driving seat. The horse was dark-coloured.
He could not recognise either the driver or the other men
on the car. One of the men on the bicycles remained NS ith
witness; the other went to give an alarm.