The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-04

has been since fugitive with him from the laws he had
outraged It is due to his memory say that he had
courage perhaps it desperation commensurate with
the extent of his crime If in social position he excep
ton to the of the Fenans who have appeared in
was he distinguished from them by his courage All the
counts from here of the affair representing that he
made desperate resistance and died game He and Cure
rereaed souy from in the wood firing at the
thirty forty soldiers who kept following them up and also
sheterng behind trees they contracted the semcirce on
the outlaws and only when the fingers OF one of his
hands broken bullet which also smashed the lock
rifle raising to fire. that Crowley gave up the
fight He dropped the rife and both Mcclure and himself
then made dash to the river Aaphuca, which bounds the
wood SIDE Crowley has received other wounds but
still he going to the river and in the he
attempted is said fire revolver just about this
time he got One of bullets flying
him the region of the heart through the
lung and out under the right Still he pressed into
the river the vain hope of CROSSING but at length
yielded and he would have fallen down in the water
that the soldiers helped him the bank He asked for
priest and the magistrates sent off of the
which the military had 1t Sunday morning. and
after time the driver met clergyman his way to
Mass at outlying chapel He told him of the dying man,
for whom there remained but short sh and speedy death
The clergyman altered his and in obedience to the
fastened to Kicooney Wood. He attended to the
call and had scarcely concluded his sacred Offices when the
penent expired The body then brought by the military
and police into Mchetown and deposited at the workhoue
under guard pending the inquest.
To-day opportunity of seeing from the windows
the hotel the funeral of Crowley passed along the Main
street of the town. certainly extraordinary specta
ce and that greatly surprised the magistrates and Others
who here with the flying column First procession
of women four deep each woman carrying large green
bough then followed scattered group of next the
coffin borne upon mems shoulders although hearse had been
engaged actually in the The plumes
white the deceased having been unmarried The coffin
covered with black CLOTH and the lid small laurel
branches His sister, who had arrived in the of the
morning and claimed the body walked after the coffin chief
mourner, her head covered with dark hood She
companied by relatives Two cegymen walked alongside ap
pareny comforting the afflicted The procession closed
by body of who walked silently along Almost every
shop in the town partially closed tribute to the de-
ceased shopkeeper in the town, with whom was con-
vesng the subject and who had not up shutter
said to referring to the display made the uneraThat
would not be done for the Earl of Kingston he going
be buried" The family burial place of the Crowleys
nearly thirty miles from this town. and the body told
will be brought along the road through the country for the
entire of that distance Referring the deceased mans
ton in life and very excellent character asked magistrate
how it such to be Fenian II will tell you"
said he what hear the townspeope state He had uncle
priest in this town who fogged in the year 96 The
engendered by this outrage to have been cher
he family and to have made treason heirloom with
is desce ldans However, offer In the dis
charge of my duty relate what have heard the subject
with the view of accounting for the strange exhibition of feel
ing made to-day the funeral The shopkeeper whom
have before referred told that there would have been
much larger attendance of known that the
police would mark all the who appeared procession
fear the police made the strange demonstration have
toned The police speak in high terms of the sister of the
deceased They say she evidently respectable woman
and acted with great prorety She appeared suffer pogn
ant sorrow.