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THE FENIAN OUTRAGE.

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EXAMINATION BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES.
MANCIIESTER, Thursday.
The prisoners implicated in the recent Fenian
outrage in this city were brought up this morning
at the police court. The safe conduct of the pri-
soners from the City Gaol to the City Court was
insured by an escort of horse and foot, and 100
rank and file were marched up to the Courk:_liouse
Bridge-street, while the prison vans '
voyed from the gaol. 1" -.0 neing con-
quick pace.
—Lie cortege moved at a
'
, owing to the early hour (8.30)
..cre was less popular demonstration than might
have been expected. The police arrangements,
which are being carried out by Captain ralip, are
of the ennapietest kind.

Mr. Robinson Fowler, stipendiary magistrate,
presided, and a large number of the city justices
were also present on the bench. Mr. liiggin)
deputy-recorder of Manchester, conducted the pro-
Elocution.

In answer to Mr. Fowler, Mr. Higgin said he did
not intend to include all the prisoners in the charge
which would first be proceeded with—,that of the
murder of Sergeant Brett. As soon as that charge
Was disposed of, he would be in a position to state
the course he intended to take with respect to the
other prisoners,
The folleWine pritl.sileii were then placed in the
au* Charged with the wilful murder of Sergeant
Brett, on the 18th of this month :—William O'Meara
Alien, Edward Shore, Henry Wilson) and %Valiant
Gould, defended by Mr: HFnest &meg; barrister j
Michael hatikini ratila icily (from Galway),
Charles Moorhouse, John Brennan, John Bacon,
and William Martin, defended by Mr. Cottingham,
barrister ; John F. Nugent and James Bhefrtri
defended by Mr, Ward; Itobert M‘Williams, de=
fended by Mr. Bremner ; Michael Maguire, Thomas
Maguire, Michael Morris, Michael Bryan; Aiehaei
Corcoran, and Thomas Ryan., defended by Air.
Bennett; and John Carroll, John Gleeson, Michael
Kennedy, John Morris, Patrick Kelly (from Leitrim),
Hugh Foley, Patrick Coffey, Thomas Kelly, and
Thomas Scalley, defended by Alr. W. P. Roberts,
instructed by the subscribers to a defence fund.
Mr. Jones said he wished to bring a matter be-
fore the Court for instruction. It had been stated
in the newspapers that the witnesses for the pri-
soners would not be admitted except by a certificate
from the solicitor.
Mr. Fowler said he believed the solicitor would
give a slip which would be presented to Capt. Palin
and would entitle the witness to a seat in the court
provided for him.
Mr. Jones asked that some alteration might be
made in that arrangement, as in some cases in which
be was instructed the solicitor himself did not know
the 'lames of the witnesses, and these witnesses

The case against the prisoners charged with the
murder of Sergeant Brett was then proceeded with.
Mr. Higgin, in opening the case for the prosecu-
tion, said he appeared in the case, instructed by the
authorities, to prefer a charge against the whole of
the men who were now present in the dock, or such
of them as should be proved to the satisfaction of
that Bench to have taken part in the attack upon
the police van on the 18th of this month. He was
there to make a charge against them all of wilful
murder. He did not conceive that it was any part
of the duty which he felt to be cast upon him to
enlarge at any very great length upon the enormity
of the offence which had been committed. That
Manchester had been startled from its propriety
by the knowledge that the ordinary police van
which was usually used for the conveyance of
prisoners backwards and forwards from the gaol
of this city to the place at which they should take
their trial had been stopped in one of the public
and one of the most frequented streets of the city—
had been attacked by an armed mob, and a rescue
had been effected, and that at the expense of the
life of at least one person, an esteemed officer, in
the exercise of his public duty—such a state of
things was highly discreditable, and was a state of
things calculated to arouse very great alarm and
apprehension in the minds of all the peaceable citi-
zens. He had nothing whatever to say in this case
which at all might aggravate the position in which
these men stood, but he conceived it to be his duty
very shortly to state the facts of the case against
them, and then call witnesses to prove these facts ;
and having done that with very great respect, but
at the same time with that firmness
which he believed
should characterise the position
occupied by one
such as himself, to call upon the Bench to do their
duty. In his opinion
that duty could only be per-
formed by the committal of such persons as ho
should include in the evidence to take their trial for
the wilful murder of the police officer. On the 18th
of the present month, it would appear that certain
y
persons had their cases investigated in this court,
and among those persons were two who had ob-
tained the names of Kell
and they, together with a number of other persons,
were conveyed from and Deasey respectively ;
this court towards the city
prison in Hyde-road. The van used was the ordi-
nary prison van, in which there was a box-seat for
the driver, and a seat on each side to be occupied by
police-officers. Inside
the van were a number of

taincltoosethd
ssoonmeertsh
chambers, with doors, -11; ;;I:ich was a ventilator
winegrelipkue
were locked, and they
were conveyed to their desti-
cVseeonoemtiapnartbmlienndt.s, Tthheedoporri;
desti-
nation. In the door at the back of the van there
was also a ventilator, larger in size, and the lower
part of that ventilator was made to open upon a
swivel. It was opened by a lock such as those attached
to railway carriages. Underneath this ventilator
in the door was another lock, exactly like the lock
attached to a railway carriage door, and opened in
the same way. When the van left the court there
was in each compartment a prisoner in custody,
and in addition there were throe or four women
in the alley or passage up the middle of the van.
There were a number of
police-officers accompany-
ing the van upon the roof, and also sitting beside
the driver. There were also some police officers
standing upon the footboard of the tart. lie Was
not aware that any of the officers who had charge
of the Van -third arida' iii ani roped whatsoever.
An officer who was well known to this court, and ho
thought well known to all who had prattide in that
COUrt or fit quarter sessions—Sefothit
inside the tan at the time of the occurrence. lie
Seemed til litiVe had the keys in his possession. They
would find from the evidence that them ii4o wets
three in number, and were tiptin it ring; Ile WaS
kicked up inside t4e yitni and; bath* the lierg id
- had the only possekston,means of gaining an
entrance to the van or of getting out of it. The van
proceeded through the streets of Manchester, and
hfithitig ieatetrer ilappetted id tile Nfaf df thellesia-;
thin Until it arrived tit the rail Way arch Which ear-
tied the fidndoil and isi-drth *extern Railway across
llyde-road ; and if his recoliedtielti seiiocl hint that
arch did not cross the road at right angles. Upon
atrivkig tit that arch it be6aitie manifest; from that
atel lriiifiedoedtiffed rid *ell as that
a deliberate attempt Was to be made by some per-
sons to stop the Bahl add tb telep3S Wale at least of
the persons Within the Van. hit 6433,3,1 {0 hog
been carried out, unfortunately, so far as regarded
two of the persons inside. Upon the horses getting
to the railway arch a man stepped forward in the
front, And ordered the driver to Stop the horses:
That person, Whoevet he Was, Was Unica with a
revolver. Immediately upon that, a number of other
persons made their appearance, armed also—many
of them, at any rate--with revolvers, and from their
demeanour, and the way in which they conducted
themselves, there can be no room left in a reasonable
man's mind to doubt that they were assembled there
for the express purpose of violence, by extreme
force if necessary—nay, by taking life if necessary
—to effect their deliberate purpose, that of stopping
the van, and by force removing some of the pri-
soners therein. After the horses were stopped the
van came to a standstill, and both of the
horses were Wounded by pistel shots, one in the

nostril and the other in the neck. The van
being brought to a standstill, pistols were fired at
the driver, and at the officers who sat beside him on
the box. Under these circumstances it was not to
be wondered at that the driver and those persons
thus exposed took care of themselves, being utterly
unable to cope with those who were so armed. The
men proceeded then to at' ack the van ; some got to
the top, and some large stones found in tli : neigh-
bourhood were lifted on the footboard and the top,
and other persons began to Latter in the top, and
the van at the present moment had a large hole bat-
tered through, or nearly through, on the roof; and
it would be found, after inspection, that there were
other marks of violence on it. There were on vari-
ous parts of it undeniable marks of bullets having
been fired. Brett was inside. They would find one
of the men engaged in this unlawful transaction
went to the back and demanded that Brett should
give up the keys. Brett refused, and said he would
stick to them to the last. Accordingly he did so.
He was then threatened that if he did not give them
up he would be shot. These threats did not appear
to have any effect on him. He still continued stead-
fast at his post, having charge of the keys. He de-
clined to give them up. Immediately at that some
of the witnesses say that a number of shots were
fired through the ventilator. Whether one or more
were fired there might be some doubt, but it was
certain that one shot was fired by the man Allen
through the ventilator. It was fired with deliberate
aim, and it took effect in the head of Brett, entering
the skull on the right hand side, and coming out on
the other. The bullet was found in the van, and
would be produced. A hatchet was then produced,
and used at the back of the van, and ultimately, the
keys not being forthcoming, threats were made to
shoot the women unless they produced the keys.
Under such threats they seem to have taken the keys
from Brett, and passed them through the ventilator.
The door was opened by the keys, and the man Allen
entered the van, and, having tried a number of cells
which were locked, and not coming to what he con-
sidered to be the right one, he asked, " Where is
Kelly ?" Kelly was in the van, and answered that
he was there. Allen went to that cell and opened
it ; and they would find that two of the prisoners
that were committed that morning—viz., Kelly and
Deasgy—were released from the van, and up to the
present moment had defeated the efforts of the
police to take them. Brett fell to the ground when
the van was opened, and some of the women came
out, and they would be called as to what they saw
and heard during the time this attack was made.
He apprehended that the bench had no doubt what-
ever with respect to the man Allen, and also as to
Larkin, for they were the two who took a prominent
part in this outrageous transaction. He did not
intend to point out more particularly the other
persons engaged in this unlawful transaction, be-
cause the evidence he should have to call before the
Court would be of considerable length. Of course
everything would depend upon the identification of
the persons who were there upon their trial. Wit-
nesses would be called to speak to the identification.
He (kr. Iliggin), as appearing for the prosecution,
would say that if there was one man among them
who was now present charged with this offence of
whom it could be proved to the satisfaction of the
bench that he was not there, or having been there
took no part whatever in this unlawful attack, he,
for one, should be glad for him to be set at liberty.
On the other hand, he believed he was prepared to
produce evidence which would compel the magis-
trates, in the exercise of a public duty, to decline
themselves a minute investigation, but to leave it to
another and more proper tribunal to pursue a more
minute examination than might be necessary there.
Brett was removed in a cab to the Infirmary, and
soon afterwards died. He apprehended that there
could be no doubt whatever that Brett was murdered.
It wasthe offence of murder to shoot that man, being
an officer in the exercise of his public duty as a police
officer. It was no matter, as regarded the investiga-
tion of the case, whether it was the intention of this
man, or such of them as he should bring within the
four corners of this charge, only to release one or two
particular persons in that van or any other persons.
If a number of men associated themselves together
for the purpose of making an attack upon the police-
officer, when the officer was in the execution of his
duty, and if one of such a body shoots and kills a
police•officer while in the execution of a public duty,
according to the law of this country it was not only
wilful murder in the man who fired the shot, but it
was wilful murder in the case of the others who
were there, and taking part in that transaction, and
assisting in that unlawful act. That was the law
as affected the case, and, believing it to be the law,
he proposed to lay such evidence as should satisfy
them that the police-officer Brett was murdered by
one of those men who were then before them, and
that the others, or such of them to whom he should
bring the charge home, were engaged assisting him
in that transaction. If that was so, not only that
one man, but all the others who had assisted were
equally guilty of the offence he charged them with
—that of wilful murder.

Mr. Fowler—Do you not think it desirable to have
the van inspected ? I understand it is close by.
Mr. Higgin said he thought so.

Mr. Fowler—We had hotter go and see it at once.
Perhaps Mr. Cottingham, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Ro-
berts would go too.

Mr. lliggin said it was in the police yard close by.
Mr. Cottingham asked Mr. Fowler, wifh reference
to the other prisoners dismissed on this specific
charge, whether they would be called up to-day ?
Mr. Fowler—Do you really think the case will
finish ?

Mr. Cottingham—The witnesses want to go.
Mr. Fowler—You may send all the witnesses away
in that case.

The prisoner Patrick Kelly asked if lie could have
time to send for witnesses.

Mr. Joule said he would.
Mr. Fowler and several of the magistrates and
edheitortt then left the court, and after a short in-
terval returned to court.
Mr. Higgin then said that in the case of John
Morris he would withdraw him from the charge.
Fowler—lf there is no evidence against him
let him be tetitoted:
Morris—Cc-Mild >t lie admitted to bail, as I am
employed in a curious position
Mr. Fowler—You must wait to see what course
they propose taking. At present you may stand
tio*tt:
Mr. fiiggin then asked that the depositions taken
at the last examination should be read Oen The
clerk then read the deposition of Constable Yarwood,
in whit--lh he stated that he identified Allen, Larkin,
Witsdni And noyland. Ile was now asked
if he could swear to aby dthefel and he further iden-
tified Maguire and Bacon, who was latttd. fie said
he Stt Mtn go towards the back of the van from
the hank: lie did ant Foe Maguire do anything,
hut he *at; oti the bank with the rest, llc saw Bacon
in a publiehollg 6% the Rude-road, just after he bad
been to Belle Vue with the dtlidf ptisovers: That
read the first time he saw him. The inn was either
the WeiiingtOii inn of the ll;rde-road Inn. There
is a beerhouse under the arch called the Half-way
ticatiN Lie was asked his impression of the time,
and said he could not tell, He did not know what
time he left the court. Ile never looked at his watch
until he got back from the Town-hall. It was some-
where about 5 or 6, as near as he could guess. The
row was then over. There were not many in the inn
when he went there after returning. He had never
seen these men before. Witness was at the right of
the driver next but one. Shaw was between the
driver and himself. They were through the arch
about two yards when the first shot was fired. On
the left of the arch, on getting through it, is an open
brickfield, and on the right is the railway embank-
ment. There he saw the men. He should fancy
there were 70 to 100, all of them strangers. Larkin
came up to witness. There was no one with witness.

Inspector Garner said it started at 20 minutes
past 3. ,
,Cross-examined—The van would arrive at the
railway arch before 4 o'clock, supposing it to have
taken half an hour to get there. I have arrested no
one in connexion with this charge, but I have iden•
tified some. I identified Bacon and Thos. Maguire
at the Albert-street station. I also identified Boy-
land as one whom I had seen close to the archway,
on the Manchester side. I was on the left-hand side
of the road. This was before the rescue ; he was
standing like an ordinary spectator. There was
nothing remarkable in his conduct.
By Mr. Higgin—l saw Larkin apprehended by a
civilian. That was a good distance from the arch-
way. I was out of breath. I had followed in pur-
suit all the way. From about 70 to 100 men ap-
pearedto be present at the attack on the van. I
cannot say how many were actively concerned in it.
By Mr. Cottingham—l followed in pursuit of a
number of men, but I did not know whether Larkin
was in the lot or not.
Mr. Higgin—But he turned out to be in that lot,
because he was taken.—Yes•
George Shaw, police-constable, attached to the
court, was next called, and his deposition read over
to him. In examination by Mr. Higgin, he said—
I heard a voice inside of the van saying, " He's
killed." That was after the shot had been fired
through the door by Allen. There is a ventilator in
the door of the van that turns on a swivel. It is
fastened and unfastened by an ordinary carriage
lock, and lower down in the door is another similar
lock. Before the time the shot was fired by Allen
they had been knocking at the ventilator with stones
and breaking it. They were not regular paving
stones, but appeared to be got out of a quarry.
When the shot was fired by Allen I was leaning
against the abutment of the railway arch, on the
right hand side watching the proceedings. I dare
not go nearer. Allen seemed to be talking to some
one inside the van for a short time before he fired.
I saw him put a pistol to the keyhole of the ventila-
tor and fire ; I only saw him fire once. It was a
woman's voice that said, " He's killed." I then
attempted to get upon the van, when I was fired at
again, and driven back. I was fired at several times
as I was running away, and was about 30 yards
from the van when Brett fell out of the van ; he
was out when I saw him. I was about 20 yards off
when Allen fired. I believe it was Allen who shot
Sprosson ; I have no doubt of it. He came running
down the road about 20 yards and fired. I cannot
say that I saw any of the persons come out of the
van who had been in custody in it. There would
not be less than 100 shots fired ; at one time they
went off very thick.
Cross-examined by Mr. Jones.—l heard part of
your cross-examination of Yarwood, but left the
court as soon as the witnesses were ordered out. I
was the officer nearest to the door of the van, at the
end where Allen was• There were several persons
in the road between me and the van. The two
principal points of the skirmish were at the head of
the van and the tail of the van. Allen, when he
came running down the road, fired directly at me,
and hit Sprosson. This was after Brett had been
shot. I had Allen impressed on my memory from
the first by his daring work. I am certain that he
was the man who fired the shot that hit Sprosson.
An adjournment of half an hour took place after
the conclusion of this witness's examination. On
the 'reassembling of the court,
Mr. Jones said he must repeat his application
with reference to the handcuffs on these men. In
the first place, the prisoners Allen and Gould had
shown him their hands. The handcuffs were too
small, and their hands were swelling under the
action of these handcuffs. They said that the pain
and inconvenience so caused, and the indignity,
prevented their attending to the evidence, and,
therefore, making suggestions to counsel. In the
interests of justice, he requested that these hand-
cuffs might be taken off these prisoners. Another
thing he might be permitted to say as an officer of
the court, which every member of the bar was, and
as a citizen of Manchester, that he thought it very
unseemly that a part of the military force should be
on the bench where the magistrates were sitting.
Mr. Roberts said that, in furtherance of the same
view, he would submit that one of the requirements
of the constitution as well of the law was, that the
magistrates should have before them when these
depositions were taken a perfect man in the shape
of the criminal. It was obvious that the require-
ment that the prisoner should be present would not
bs satisfied by his coming there if he were asleep, or
if he were in torture, or if he were suffering from
accident or prostration by sickness ; and he con-
tended that the fair application of the rule was that
the man who came before them for trial should be
as free as possible, consistently of course with the
necessities of the place where he was tried. Was it
likely, was it possible, could they believe it them-
selves, that men suffering under the imprisonment,
the assault, and the torture which these men were,
got ld have the same mental capacity or bodily
strength that they would have if they came in the
ordinary way ? He asked, therefore, that the pri-
soners should be so far as possible placed in the
same position of freedom and liberty as those who
charged them and gave evidence against them.
Mr, Cottingham said the prisoner Larkin had
complained to him of the extreme pain and incon-
venience he had suffered for several hours owing to
the pressure of the handcuffs upon him. He sub-
mitted that Mr. Fowler had complete power to deal
with this case, the gentlemen around him being
merely spectators of the scene.
Mr. Fowler—Not so ; I am chairman of a bench
of magistrates.
Mr. Cottingham said that under the statute under
which Mr. Fowler was acting he had power to try
the case by himself.
Mr. Fowler—l am only one here, bound by the
majority. I represent two magistrates in most
cases, when sitting alone.
Mr. Cottingham—You are the chairman presiding
in this—you are the custos curiae, and you are in the
position of the senior judge at Assizes, and have
. authority to direct that the prisoners may be relieved

necessary.
Mr. Fowler directed this to be done.
Thomas Pathson, of West Gorton, a puddler to
brickinakers, said he was at work on Wednesday
afternoon week, and heard a noise in the direction
of the railway arch, llyde-road, about 20 minutes
past 4 o'clock. He was about 400 yards from the
place, on the left hand side. The noise was that of
knocking on the van. On hearing the noise he went
up to within ten yards of the van. He got on
Heywood's wall, adjoining Hyde-road. When he
saw 30 to 40 men firing pistols. The 'bus had
passed 15 to 20 yards beyond the railway arch.
There were men throwing stones at the van and
breaking the door at the back in. One stone was
about a foot in length, and they had a larger one.
They were breaking the top in. Allen was at the
top, and Thomas Maguire was throwing up stones
to him. Allen was breaking the top in. Heard
reports of pistols before he got there, as well as
after. He saw the man engaged in breaking
the roof. A man with white slop and cord
trousers on was at the back of the van, and he said,
" Shoot the --, he's inside." Allen was running
about threatening to shoot any one who might ap-
proach him. He had a revolver in each hand.
Allen afterwards placed one of the revolvers against
the ventilator of the van and fired. A scream fol-
lowed, and the door of the van was opened, and
Brett fell out. After that he saw two men coma
out of the van havinghandcuffs on. Allen was with
them and said—" Arrah, Kelly, I'll die for you !"
Allen then said he would shoot any man that fol-
lowed. He had two pistols then, but witness never
saw him after that. Allen, Gould, and Larkin
stopped behind the rest, and afterwards followed
the two men who had come out of the van and who
had gone in the direction of the Sheffield railway.
IVitness identified the prisoner Martin as one who
was throwing stones, and Patrick Kelly. After
looking at Sergeant Brett witness and others fol-
lowed Kelly, Gould, and Larkin. They caught Lar-
kin in the Midland Railway yard, across the Shef-
field line. As they followed, Allen fired from the
top of the Sheffield line at a man named Mark
Holland, who was alongside of witness. When they
took Larkin he had no pistol. There were some
trucks on the Sheffield line, which he passed, Wit-
ness assisted to take Allen about three yards from
Ashton New-road. He had a revolver in his hand
and said, " I'll surrender." A young named Hunter
took the revolver from Allen, who had fired several
times at those who were followiug. A police-officer
came and took him as he was getting ill treated.
Saw a lot of cartridges taken from his pocket, and
a book and old pipe head.
The proceedings before the magistrates closed
about six o'clock by the prisoners being remanded
till to-morrow. There was an imposing military
force to escort the prisoners from the court. They
have been given over to the custody, during the
night, of the military, under General Sir John
Garvock, who engages to be responsible for their
production to-morrow.
At a meeting of the authorities to-night, it has
been determined to alter the terms in which the
reward for Kelly and Deasey is offered, by engaging
to keep the name of the informer secret.

TRONHASTETtS' MEETING.—The South Staffordshire
Ironmastcrs' Association held a preliminary meeting at

Birmingham yesterday, but there was no alteration made in
prices. Trade continued quiet, though on the whole better

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