The New York herald., 1879-02-06
ANOTHER RELEASED FENIAN.
EIGHT YEARS AND SIX MONTHS IN BRITISH DUN
GEoNs-HARsH AND ExAsPERATING TREAT
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EIGHT YEARS AND SIX MONTHS IN BRITISH Dun
MENr BY PRISON KEEPERS.
John Brady. another Fenian convict. arrived in this
city yesterday from Liverpool board the steamship
Erin. He was released from Mountioy Prison. Dub
lin. January 20. by an order from Dublin Castle.
dated January TO- condition that he should leave
the United Kingdom. When notified he said he
would go to France but this objected to- there
was likelihood he might soon return from there.
He then asked the director of the prison. John
Barlow that in he decided to go to America If he
would be allowed to go and his friends. Barlow
replied that he had sister stopping in
Dublin he might be allowed to see her. but
as for his friends in the county Meath such per-
mission could be granted the grounds of objection
being that he might alarm the country as reception
was intended to be given him. Brady was arrested
April 49, 1870. convicted June of the year. and
sent to Mountjoy Prison to undergo probationary
period of eight months. From there he was sent to
Spike Island, in Queenstown Harbor, and kept there
Mt hard labor for six years and four months. From
thence he transferred to Mountjoy Prison. where
he spent the remainder of the time to the period
to an act of Parliament of 1864 man sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment was allowed mitigation of
two years and four months in case nothing stood
against him.
OFFICIAL PERSECUTION.
BRADY was detained ten months longer IMAM ne
might otherwise have had to stay by way of extra
punishment for petty breaches of discipline for
which he had already suffered penance on bread and
water and in dark cells. The charge which Brady
was tried aud convicted was attempt to kill John
Ratcliffe magistrate of Kells, county Meath, and
extensive landlord. Ratcliffe had made himself
obnoxious to the Fenians. and when any one sus-
pected Of Feniansm was brought before him for
u simple assault he was accustomed to give him
from six to nine months i'll Jail. He also
denounced the Fenian organization through one of
the local papers Brady. who is tall young man of
about years, related the hard times he
had of it in the prison of Spike Island, where for
simply looking around in place Of keeping his eyes
to the front he was put for ten days and nights on
bread and water deprived for twenty days OF his lib
erty aud cut of from correspondence with his
friends. In Mounttoy Prison, because the
load Of sand in his wheelbarrow was not
as large the keeper thought he had a
right to carry, though he suffering
from illness at the time he put for twenty
days bread and water. after which he was locked
up for six weeks on threc-quarter diet. Numerous
other instances Of harsh and exasperating treatment
related to show how hard is the lot OF polit
cal prisoner at the other side OF the water. Brady
for the present is stopping ut Sweeny's Hotel and
will leave after few days for Chicago. He says he
left behind him in Mountjoy Prison two men named
Norris and Power. who have been there twenty eight
years for the murder Of keeper, and for whom the
late Cardinal Cullen pleaded hard to get pardon.