The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-01
drover, deeply moved, proceeded on his


ward offered for the capture Of Fitzgerald
GlOOO-s fortune to poor yeoman.
Lord EdwArtl'sname served as talismaT
among the people to remove every obstacle
john Anderson, OF Fermony, when engaged
in one Of his great commercial enterprises
was posting to Dublin at the time OF the
patriots imprisonment, and suddenly
foVnd his journey cut short by the land
lord OF the hotel declaringhe could furnish
no pest.horses. Mr.. Anderson's business
would, he knew, suffer by the delay; 80
taking advantage OF the popular feeling, he
exclaimed in tone Of griel:
"Oh, my dear friend, Lord Edward, can
do nothing to save your"
"0stler, clap four horses to this gentle.
mans carriage instantly" cried the land
lord.
Never had the willy banker been more
swiftly driven than on his pretended
errand 10 save the idol OF the people.
A widow named Dillon gave Lord Ed.
ward shelter in her house near POrtobello.
Before be had been two days there the ser
want, in cleaning Lord Edwards boots, OBJ
served bis name and title written on them
in full. He told Mrs. Dillon that he had
discovered who her guest upstairs was, but
that che need not fear, as he would die in
his defense. Mrs. Dillon informed FiIz-
gerald, who asked TO see the man.
"No," replied the servant, u won't 80 up
and see him, for then, II they arrest me, l
can swear never saw or spoke 10 him."
All these poor people, and those who
gave him shells. and protection, did SO
when but word would have put them in
pos session OF El000
While Lord Edward was concealed at
the house Of James Moore, 10 Thomas
Street. Dcblln, carpenter named Tuito
was at work in the castle Of Secretary
Cooke While repairing floor he over.
head Cooke say in the room beneath that
M0ore's house was soon to be searched for
pixies and traitors. NoiselesJly wrenchipg
off the hinges OF door, lutte asked permits
sion to leave the castle to purchase a new
hinge. Leave being given, he run TO
Moore's house and spprised him OF the
danger.
Lord Edward had been educated in
France, and in Moore's house passed as the
French tutor OF Miss Moore. They always
spoke in French. That evening Miss
Moore, leaning on Lord Edwards arm,
went out boldly, as ii for STROLL It was
in that walk that SIR and his men attacked
them as above related. Finally Fitzgerald
got safely to the house OF Nicholas Murphy.
Lord Edward, in the course of his
escapes, had caught severe cold, and was
greatly debilitsted in consequence. He
threw himself, half dressed, on bed, and
there lay for some hours. Suddenly head
was thrust through the door; then two
men entered-Alajor Swan and Captain
Ryan. Swan, advancing, said:
You know me, my lord, and | know
you. 1t wilt be in vain 20 resist. You are
my prisoner"
Fitzgerald sprang up, and drawing dag.
ger IRON under his pillow, closed with
Swan. Ryan attacked Edward with sword
cane, and Swan discharged a doube,bar-
relied pistol, which wounded Fitzgerald in
the shoulder.
Major SIR, who had 800 men below, was
placing pickets around the house, but soon
hurried up stairs, where he held his victim
engaged in q deadly struggle with Swan
and Ryan. Both OF them were clinging to
the leg oil Lord Edward, trying to trip him,
when SIR, from secure position on the
top of the stairs. took deliberate aim and
shot him in the right shonldcr. Fitzgerald
fell, was disarmeI, bound and conveyed TO
New gate. His wounds being mortal, his
end rapidly drew near. His relatives were
not permitted to see him, nor his servants
to attend him.
After his masters death, bis faithful
Tony" never held up his head, but dropped
and died Of grief. Fitzgerald was not
even spared hearing the noise at the ex.
ecution OF Clinch at the prison door.
Edwards wife and children were not ad.
mitted at all-Hot even to take au eternal
leave OF hin. i was not until he was
dellriops and dying that his sister vas al.
lowed to soc him.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald died in great
agony; mental as we'll as bodily, on the
4,h CT June, l798. His estates were con-
fscated. and penCilssa, with three intautI
TO provide for, his wife was banished from
the Kingdom. For many years the
memory OF Samuel Nelson rested under
the unjust OF having betrayed his friend.
To this day there is an uncertainty as to
whom was his betrayer, but it IL generally
believed, from circumstances pointing that
way, that Thomas Reynolds, a personal
friend OF, and Il man under many obliga.
tons to Lord Edward Fitzgerald, was the
betrayer..
The fidelity Of Murphy was the ruin OF
himself and family. They lived and died
in great distress. Ryan died OF his wounds
Had the Geraldine lived to guide the insur-
reGtion he had organized, his popularity
and military talents would in all likelihood
have carried 1t to q successful Issue. -Four
days after hisarrest three out OF thirty.two
counties rose, and TO extinguish even that
partial revolt cost the English Government
E22, O00, 900 and 10000 men.
Talk no! TO me Of PEACE said Sergeant
Blrgh, Ireland is not in stale Of peace,
1t is smothered war. England has sown
her laws like dragons teeth, and they have
sprung up armed men,"
Those words were uttered in thereign OF
George III. One would think they had
been yesterday. Curran, speaking Of SIR,
said, years alter
"At the melancholy period Of l70S the
defendant (Sirr) from an obscure individ-
ual, started into notoriety and consequence.
From being Town Msj)r, Il name scarce
ly legtble IN the list Of public incumbran-
ces, he BECAME at once invested With all the
powers OF absolute authority. The life aud
liberty OF every one seemed to have been
surrendered to his disposal"
SIR livedtOa very advanced age, but
was tortured by remorse and fear OF an
RYepging shot from some hidden assassin
like himself. He always wore steel armor
under bis clothes, and could hardly, in the
midst Of all bis splendor, find spot he
fauCied secure enough for him to sleep in.
He would carouse till broad daylight with
anybody sooner than be left alone. One
day, as Magistrate oil Police, SIR sentenced
to short imprisonment an old womgn,who
had been guilty Of some trihing mlsde.
meanor. On hearing the sentence she
gave weird shout and began shrieking
out the various infamous deeds he had
done in '9S, in which the name Of the Ger.
aldine was paramount. This recapitula.
ton had q terrible effect on the old man.
He tremLled, turned pale, and, placing his