Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-12

ter the arrests occurred, that Carey would be shown to have plotted, down to the minutest details, every one of the Dublin political outrages. Mr. Curran told me he was the s'head center" of the whole assassination movement, but at the same time he told me to write nothing for the time being, for the reason that such declaration, coming from him, would seriously, and in all probability fatally, prejudice the case of the prisoners. Now, however, that the government has ac- cepted Carey as it's chief witness, I suppose I am exempt from my promise. The em ployment of Carey's testimony further shows that my original surmise that the reason of the long remands of the prisoners from week to week lay in the weakness of the govern ment cass at that time. The experienced officials counted upon the giving of informa- tion by some of the prisoners. In other words. the stand of the prosecution at the
 start was very fine bluff game, based upon lot of purely circumstantial information. The lesson of these trials thus far is sufficient to assure us that no secret political society of a nihilistic character can exist for any length of time in Ireland. The people who embark in these enterprises over there are
 usually low, irresponsible fellows, and many of them are dangerously addicted to drunk enness. Sooner or later this sort of man is sure to turn informer, either through incau- ton, religious weakness or natural baseness. The nihilists of Russia command different materials Prince Krapotkine told me last C6fG81n joined the order and put all his fortune into it, only to be expelled because he was seen walking down the boulevard with a woman of the demi-monde. A Russian nihilist must have no intimates and must be away beyond the influence of the priests. More than that, in all his personal habits he must be abso- lutely self-reliant and temperate. In Ireland there is not enough such material to make half society out of. One other curious fact in regard to this man Carey is that less thsn thirty days before his arrest he sat, at dinner given by the Mayor of Dublin, pre- cisely opposite Curran, the man whose care full work came so near bringing his wis avis to the gallows- It is impossible to describe or conceive the loathing in which an inform CT is held in Ireland When, the day before came away from Dublin, Lamie was asked by one of the lawyers for the defense ''Do you believe there is man, woman or child in this court room who is not sure you are an infamous and perjured liar P there was simply ungovernable shout from the entire audience. I myself have seen children not more than four five years old in the re-
 mote districts of the country, going through the mock process of killing and burying in formers. The abhorrence of this particular form of treachery seems to be fairly born in the people.
 The prisoners in these trials are pretty
 nasty looking lot as 8 rule. Three or four
 of them have respectable appearance, and
 of all the others, the one I should have be-
 lieved least likely to have harmed human
 being is the man Joseph Brady, who is de-
 clarsd to have been the principal mover in
 both the Phoenix Park and the Field cases.
 He has a round, full face, and bulky, i'm
 mature form. When he smiles he looks like
 fat, good-humored country lad, with un-
 usually pleasant gray eyes and an uncom-
 monly white and even set Of teeth. He is
 the sort of chap you would expect to meet
 on country road driving a pair of oxen
 hitched to hay-cart. Through the entire
 proceedings of the first three days Brady
 was on broad grin, and upon several occa-
 sions he turned his back upon the court and
 gazed in an amused fashion about the room.
 Kelley, the man who lost his hat at the stab
 bing of Mir. Field, is another living refuta-
 tion of the theory held by physiognomists.
 He is a slender boy, hardly twenty I should
 say, with face indicative of good temper
 and stolidity more than anything else. His
 mouth is of the type which mooney girls de-
 scribe as the "Cupid's bowl pattern. That is
 to say, the lips turn up at the ends and de-
 scribe curve in the middle. He has gray
 eyes and a preternatural solemnity of man.
 ner. But there is nothing vicious in his ap-
 pearence. OBrien looks like Q dry goods
 clerk, without snap enough to compliment
 pretty customer. He has curly, reddish
 whiskers and young face. Hanlon, anoth-
 CT boy, is as white as ghost, and has mar
 row. sinister face, with skull like 8 turkey. He looks as though he knew he was going to die. James Mullett, who struck at Carey the other day in court, is the most gentlemanly fellow of all in his personal appearance. He is short and rather stout and has brown eyes and dark mustache. His face is round and he is continually excited. Now and then he bangs his fist down on the dock l rail with loud thump as some point of the testimony comes out. It was he who put Thomas Fitzpatrick, then his secretary. up to making riot in the famous Davitt meet iug in the Dublin rotunda several years ago. It was believed by a good many that he would turn informer at the last minute. His brother, Joseph Mullett, is usually said to be of sinister aspect. This is not true. He has 'tpeaked" face, but not an ugly one just such 8 face as you see on half the l hunchbacks you meet. The others most l ly common looking lot, except the carman, l Kavanagh, who is a desperate chap to look | at He chews tobacco voraciously all the | time and seems quite composed His face is | narrow and his nose is of the high Roman | cast. He has yellowish gray eyes and long | chin, and his neck is muff1ed up carefully in a more or less white handkerchief. So far as ''No. 1" is concerned, he may still turn out to be one McCafferty, low blackguard, who did some heavy swelling around London just before the Phoenix Park affair, and who | was spoken of to me at that time by the chief of the English detective force as 8 sympathizer with assassination, and man | with undue funds for mysterious distribu- 1 tion- He answers the printed description | vary well