New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-10
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
DUBLIN.


THE FENIAN TRIALS" CEN MAssEY's' EVIDENCE
HIS REAL NAME AND HISTORY - WHY HE
TURNED INFoRMER-HIs ACCOUNT OF THE AR
RANGEMENTs FOR THE RIsING-EvIDENCE or J.
j. CORYDON, ANOTHER MISUNDERSTANDING
OF THE Observation-Disclosures RESULT or THE
TRIAIs-sUDDEN ILLNESS or MASSEY IN TIE
COURTHOUSE.
Prom Our Special Correspondent
II the proceedings of the first two days in Green
St were duh and tedious they decidedly were,
the same rem ark cannot be made of the progress of
affairs since then. The evidence adduced by the
crown. and the crOss-eXamination of witnesses by
the prisoners counsel have been deeply interesting;
they have been listened to with great attention in
the court by as great crowd of persons as the
police would allow into it, and they being eagerly
read throughout the city fast the papers come
out with their successive editions The Attorney
General made his statement to the jury OH Friday.
1t was a fair aud unimpaSsiOned narrative, such as
no reasonable person, however much be might sym.
pathize with the unfortunate men in the dock could
complain of. One Patrick KeOgh, tailor was the
first witness called, but his evidence was OF little
importance. AS soon as he got of the table, the
crown brought up their great gun, ten. Godfrey
Massey, who was the appointed heao Oh the ihsui-
rection for the south of Ireland.
He was scarcely on the table when question arose
as 10 his real name. During some portions OF his
career he had been giving 1t as Patrick Condor ana
during other portions as Godfrey Massey Before ms
examination was done the fact came out that his
fathers name was Massey, but that his mother was
not entitled to call herself by that name: f1r ms
own part in his childhood he was known by hls
mothers name, Condor; subsequently lie was called
Godfrey Massey and in later times he osciilated be-
tween both. The Massey family, from which he Is
descended on the fathers side, are weil-known Peo-
pie Of the class of landed gentry IN the County lip
perary. This precious youth entered the land trans
poIt service of the British army during the Crmean
war. In the year 1856 he went to America AZ the
breaking out of the civil war he Joined the 2d Texas
Regiment of the Confederate Army. and served under
Smith. A short time alter the close OF the
he ioined the Fenian brotherhood and he swears
that he served the organization faithfully up TO the
time of his arrest at the Limerick Junction the
night before the rising. lew days after his cap
ture, finding that he himself had been betrayed by
one Of his subOrdinates, and yielding to the persua
SiOns Of his wife, be proposed 70 give information 70
the Government, and OF course, his offer was gladly
accepted. SO il came TO pass that the Col ConGon OF
4he Confederate army the Cen Massey OF the remain
Brotherhood appeared on Yesterday III Green-st
Court House in the very uDenviable position OF an
infOrmer swearing away the lives of comrades who
had trusted him, and brave men who would have
gone at his bidding to- the eannon's mouth.
In the course of his evidence he stated that some
nights before that which he had appointed for the
rising he had been furnished with accurate returns
of the available insurectiOnary force in Dublin ana
IN Cork County, well as Of the extent TO which
the men were AIMED. Those returns convict him,
and those connected with him, OF criminal Tasbness
an having ordered rising at ali. For the Fenlan
Horce Eas almost completely destitute of arms and
kn that condition il folly to suppose they could
40 any fighting against the Queens troops. In Dub
I'm the 1en numbered from 1900 10 1900, and the
arBs Of all sorts among them numbered bat 1900,
Probably he rites possessed by the entire force did
not DuInbef 800. How earth could party OF men,
armed and nnaTnsd ia sSch proportions, have been
expected TO maintain their ground as nsuTTectOniste
for a single day. In Cork The proportions were still
more prepOsterOus-being 800 weapons to 5000
hen And of these 500 the vast majority were pixies
Surely, after this, there is need TO ask why the
Fen ian rising failed. or why the inslrIectonary
parties were unable TO stand their ground against the
police and the soldiers.
Mssse\ appears 10 have been acting bona tide for
the Fenias up To the time Of his arrest when he lost
heart utteriy and succumbed. But another Of the
lrish-America1 party proved a traitor OF deeper
dye. He is Yong fellow who gives bic name as
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