The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Manner of the Killing of Caven-
dish and Burke Described.
The Evidence Corroborated by Others, and
the Manner of the Accused Not
Hopeful of Results.
THE TRIAL OF THE AssAssINs.
An Exciting Day at Dubiin-Kavanah Turns
Informer and Tells His Story

government officials.
Joseph Brady Timothy Kelly James
Carey, town councillor Carman Fitzharris
Lawrence Hanlon, Joseph Mullett, James
Mullett, Edward 0'Brien, William Maroney
David Curley and Daniel Delaney were
placed in the dock at Kilmainham Court to-
day.
Greet excitement ensued when Kavanagh
was placed in the witness seat. Kavanagh
apparently labored under great excitement.
He deposed that on the 9th of May last he
was at the Royal Oak public-house, in Park
Gate street. wher he was engaged by four
men. Brady and Kelly and two strangers.
Brady here uttered a loud cultural threat.
but no distinct words were heard. Kava-
nagh then pointed to Patrick Delaney as
another of the men present. He drove the
four men in the park by the Island Bridge
gate to the Phoenix monument, and along
The main road to the Cough monument and
they there got down. They said there was
no sign of skin the goat" meaning. James
Fitzharris, a carman. [Fitzharris here
shouted, Don't call me nicknames!nl After
the prisoners had said there was no sign of
Fitzharris, witness saw him with his cab
coming from the opposite direction, and saw
four men alight from the cab. The cab
stayed a long way up the road, with the
horses heads turned toward Dublin.
Kavanagh identified Fitzharris as the
driver of the cab. After the men witness
drove to the park had alighted there he put
the nosebag on his horse while waiting. He
heard a person speak to James o. Bren. De-
laney afterward instructed HIM (kavanagh)
to look sharp and be ready to start. Upon
this he drove nearer to the waiting group,
which included some persons he did
not know. Two gentlemen (Lord Cavern
dish and Burke) were approaching arm
in arm. James Carey and Delaney,
who had come back on the car from
the place where it was waiting, jumped down
and joined the group Witness heard some
one say at is the tall man. Kavanagh was
then ordered to go further away by some of
the conspirators. As he did so he heard some
one he could not tell whom, repeat, Mind,
it is the tall man!' As the gentlemen came
along, either Carey or Delaney seized a white
handkerchief. Witness said on looking
around he thought he only saw one gentle
man fall, and saw that the other, who had an
umbrella in his hand, was lying on the
ground. He was not certain who struck the
fatal blow; he was not out of the car; the other
men were. The job was done in twinkling.
Everything had been arranged in the car
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the car there was a good deal of talk as to
who should be assassinated first, and between
them they settled thst the job was to be done
so quietly that nobody would be able to tell
who was killed first.
Kavanagh said he was so near the scene of
the assassination that he heard one of the
victims cry, "Ohl" The tall victim (Burke)
was lying in the road after this exclamation
The other victim was standing in the road
with an umbrella i'll his hand. Kavanagh
afterward saw him lying in the road
before stated. The four men whom he
drove to the park jumped on his car and
drove away. Brady sat on the right side of
the car.
He subsequently drove by Chapelizod
Round Town, to Palmerston Park. Kelly
alighted At the terminus. Brady paid him
Ell. On driving from the scene of the MUIR
der they took a turn to the left, then crossed
the bridge to the right along the Inchscore
road. Delaney directed him where to drive
He drove rapidly until he reached Round
town, three miles from the park Here Tim
Kelly alighted He then drove around to
Lesson Park; stopping at a public house
near Lesson Bridge Brady then paid
and am: dismissed m hi, him p On SUNDAY day morn
Townsend street, and received two
pounds. Brady afterward brought him a
harness. He allowed the car to remain as it
was for some time; afterward had it painted
On the night Field was attacked, he was on
the Collegestreet stand. Joe Brady again
engaged him, and they drove into Fleet
street. Delaney then got on the car, and
they drove to Harwick street. where they
alighted. They told him to wait. and while
waiting Kelly and Lawrence Hanlon came up.
Upon Kavanagh entering into further de-
tails as to the various times he drove the as
sassins after the Phoenix Park murders, Fitz-
harris called him liar.
KaVanaph said that X allV lost his hat whan
he mounted the car after the attack on Field
The car fled by circuitous route. In Town
send street Kelly bought another hat. AT the
gas-works Brady and Kavanagh wrapped
some kind of swords in paper and threw
them into the basin. Brady again paid for
the car on this occasion. He (Kavanash) had
been twice in Phoenix Park before May
with the four men whom he drove on the
day of the murder
Kavanagh further deposed that Ftzharris
on one occasion told him they were after
Judge Lawson. Kavanagh said he became an
informer on Thursday last. He had been
sworn into the society by Kelly. The task
assigned him was to drive the boys"
Thomas Doyle was present when he was
sworn into the society. He identified Doyle
as having told him he must, the day after
the swearing, drive anywhere they required.
Prisoner Doyle hereupon exclaimed: Its a
liel' Kavanagh also said that Doyle told
him that James Mullett and lot of big
people were attached to the society.
While he was waiting in Phoenix Park a
carman nicknamed Nowt passed him, driving
a passenger named Nolan toward Dublin. He
was also passed by some bicyclists
During the reading of his deposition Ka-
yanagh leaned back in his seat, resting his
head on his hand, with logged expression
of countenance. Kavanagh's evidence is felt
10 be conclusive. Little can be added to il,
as the crown will not accept the evidence of
tne actual participants The prisoners
There was no laughter to-day among
them when Kavanagh identified them. All
of them exhibited defiant demeanor except
James Carey who sat motionless. gazing fix
sdly at the bench. The Others moved about,