New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-29
IN OUTBREAK OF LAWLESSNESS.

ORGANIZED desperadoes TO intimldate judges anu
iuries. The island has been rapidly settllng
down into q state of tranquility. Mr.. Irevel-
van has stated in the Commons that the num-
her of agra,ian crimes this month is less than
bundred-a smaller number than has been
,eported for single month since July, 1851.
This indicates that a popular reaction against
lawlessness has set in throughout the island.
The settlements made or registered under the
Land Act have avera ged 900 a month, and the
reductions of rent have been 10, %, 80, and
even 40 per cent with an average of 2O.5 per
cent for the sub-commissoners and % per cent
for the Civil Bill Courts. Even if the purchase
clauses have been as imperative as were the
Bright clauses of the Land Act of 1870, the Act
itself has not been failure ana wnlle the
advantages of the Arrears bill have been ne
elected for a season, 1t is probable that tic
refusal of the Government to extend the une
within which the Act may be used VIII multiply
the applications during the closing month. IN
this way the main body of the tenantry nave
come to understand the practical benefits OF Mr.
GladstOne,s remedial Legislation, ana the erect
has been most beneficial in promoting paclhc
disposition. At the same time the Government
has Disseminated between political ana cflmi-
nal offenses and has had astonishing success III
convicting murdercrs and desperadOes. The
wholesome restraint of criminal prosecutions
has been restored. If the tenants have learned
that the Land Act is substantial measure oil
Justice administered in a spirit OF generosity
and cOncili .tion, lawess agitators ana cross
roads ruffians have discovered that they have
only one thing to expect from the crlmlnai
tribunals inexOrable justice. The secret
societies are at their wits end. They must do
something to excite panic fear inlrcland, some
thing to terrify witnesses. juries and judges
or the island will lapse into an era of listless-
ness and stagnaton and they themselves be left
at the mercy of courts which they once de-
spised.
The murder of Detective Cox in the streets OF
Dublin was unprecedented so far as the victim
was concerned. The despera0oes who were so
courageously challenged by the officers were
undoubtedly hunting for better game than an
ill-paid detective. The fact that seven judges
who had been dining close at hand passed the
spot few minutes after the assault occurred
excites strong suspicion that this band of
murderers were waiting for them. That they
had some desperate work before them was evil
dent from the resistance which was offered to
the arrest of the murderers But the crimes
which followed this dastardly outrage bore
uamistakable evidences of organized lawless-
ness. On the following night bailiff was
stabbed in the streets of Dublin one OF the
jurors who had condemned the murderer Hynes
was assaulted, stabbed and trampled under foot
by pair of bloodthirsty ruffians, who drove
off in cart like the Phoenix Park murderers
and the hospital where Detective COx's assail-
ant was lying was surrounded by an angry mob
and only with the greatest difficulty secured
against assault. Outrages like these are obvi-
ously the work of secret societies and are pri-
marty designed to intimidate Judges, juries and
witnesses Undoubtedly the two judges who
have taken n conspicuous part in the conviction
of Hyncs and the Joyce muTdcrcrs had been
marked out for slaug liter, and either they or
some of their associates would have met their
doom, if detectives vigilance had not d
verted his murdercrs from their purpose The
Bench as well as the jury-box was to have been
warned that criminals could not he judged, con-
demned and punished with impunity. The
Court which had sentenced eight men to death
within a fortnight was to have been deGed by
new series of outrages, precisely as the Court
which convicted IIynes had been dcled in the
The prosecution in the recent trials failed TO
disclose any motive for that atrocOus crime.
The Joyce family had been charged with being
infOrmers and were suspected of having given
evidence against certain criminals. If this was
their only offence, the slaughter of the father,
with his mother wife, daughter and little son,
was probably planned as a warning to wit
nesses that such testimony as had been given q |
day or two before in the Hynes case could only |
be repeated at the risk of death. For this |
cause the family was literally hacked to pieces
"a man, three women and child-and only |
one Joyce was left alve-a lad of nine years,
who was produced in court with CHASTITY scars
upon his head and an old mans look on his |
scared face when he told the jury that be had
never learned the catechism, never said his |
prayers, and had no idea where he would 90 if |
he were to tell a lie. This was the last of the |
JOyces, an ignorant peasants family, which |
had been doomed to death because the father |
was suspected of being an infOrmer, and wit |
nesses must be cautioned to hold their tongues |
But witnesses did not heed the warning. In |
the Joyce trials the murdeTers were positively |
identified by those who had tracked them TO |
the scene of bloodshed. Witnesses were more
OutspOken and courageous than they had been |
in the Hynes case. In like manner these new |
outrages may quicken the sense of responsible |
ity on the part of detectives, judges and iuries.
If this be so, they will do their duty without |
fear of consequences and hunt down and punish |
releutlessly the foulest enemies OF. Ireland-the |
assassins and miscreants who have polluted |
what was once a righteous cause.
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BUYING BONDS At LAST
On Saturday morning The TRIBUNE stated |
that Secretary Folger would soon be com