Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-30
Frank Byrne and His wife.

Der Of the Assassination Society, or Invinci-
| bles, and whom the British Government yaialy
sought to extradite from France, arrived to-
day from Havre by the steamship AmeriqEe,
accompanied by his wife. The latter Carey
also implicated. He testified that on one
occasion she brought to Dublin from London
| four knives, and that she had rife sluUg
around her neck under her cloak. Ga an
other occasion, Carey swore, Mira. Byrne
| brought another CONSIGNMENT of arms
from London, including 4,000 rounds of am
munition. When Mrs. Byrne was taken
from London to Dublin, Carey failed to ider.
| tify her, and she was releaSed.
a reporter found Byrne aud Mrs Byrne st
the residence of the formers sister, where he
and his wife are temporarily stopping. Byrne
| is a man of more than ordinary intelligence,
good address and well educated. He is about
| five feet ten inches tall, and Of robust phys
| ique. :" 1 deny anything Carey swore to, 50
far as and wife are concerned" said Byrne.
II have not seen Carey since 1862 and then
my relations with him were purely social, aud
not in any sense political. He said l be-
! longed to the Fenisn Brotherhood. This is
as false IS anything else he swore to. l never
belonged to any secret political organization.
I have devoted myself exclusively during my
time in politics to public and constitutional
agitation. The political organic alton to which
first attached myself when 1 first went TO
England was the Irish Home Rule Confed-
Grafton. l was Secretary Of the organization,
and subsequently Secretary of the National
\ Land League of Great Britain and the Ma
tional Land and Labor League Of Great
Britain, and the Irish National League, each
in the order name them"
care you acquainted with Sheridan"
Swell, slightly. After his release from
Kilmainham, where he was imprisoned as a
suspect, 1 met him in Dublin while spending
my vacation there. [ was introduced to him
at meeting of the Ladies' Land League by
Miss Fanny Psrnell. I had already known
of him by repute, but 1 had never seen him
uatil introduced to him."
What do you think of Carey's testimony
as it related to Sheridan 2"
"From all I have been told about Sheri-
dan, l do not believe he is capable Of allow
| ing himself to be connected with an Assassin
alton Society"
"What do you think Of Number One"
| 81 believe if the Assassination Society ex.
listed as described, Carey was the organizer,
| and the so.called Number One was myth.
| When Carey, the Town Councillor, testified
on February 18th for the Crown. he stated
that he only concluded to become an infoimer
two days previously. Now the warrant for
my arrest was dated one day before the date
on which Carey swore that he had made up
cution."
Byrne intends to reside permanently in
America. Mrs. Byrne is well posted in Irish
politics. Her departure for Paris from
London, after being released in Dublin, when
Carey failed to identify her, was precipitated
by report which came to her privately from
Dublin Castle that she was to be regrrested.
Her departure to meet her husband in Paris
was hastened so she was compelled to leave
= L., oh hahfnd s,,t t1o of
his sister.
Byrne and his wife were called on by many
| friends, and Byrne visited Sheridan. Two
| detectives, one English and the other French,
were passengers on tie Amsrique, and had
Byrne and his wife under surveillance until
their arrival here. Byfns is probably being
shsdowed by them now. He does not favor
the attempt to blow up the London public
| buildings.
ConIkIing and His Sister.
New York, March 29sh.-George Conk-
ling and his sister, Mrs. Uhler. expect to
start for Reno, New, tonight. The $3.50 in
| for ssfakeeping on the night of the shooting,
hasnot been returned to her. 1t isin possession
of lawyer named Bennot, and Mrs. Uhler's
counsel say they will begin summary pro-
ceedings for its recovery this morning. Be-
ing interviewed on Conkling's discharge, AS.
sistant District Attorney Allen said: My
| opinion as a lawyer IS that Judge Smith had
no right to take the course he did. Neither
had he any right to take bail in the first case.
His entire conduct in this Conkling matter is
extraordinary. l have never heard that the
killing was not admitted. and the defense was
that the killing was justified. 1t was not for
Smith, or any Police Justice, to say whether
| Conklipg was innocent or guilty. The prob
abilities are that Conkling would have been
acquitted by jury, but it was q fatal and
dangerous assumption of power on the part Of
Smith to discharge Conkling. have no
hesitation in saying that" It is rumored
that the facts IN the case will be laid before
Governor Cleveland, and Judge Smiths re-
moval demanded.
CoRkIing Not Ont of the Woods Yet.
New YORK, March 29sh-The Grand Jury
to-day began an investigation of the case of
| George w. Conkling, Jr, who shot and
killed Wilbur ii. Haverstick, and he will
probably be indicted and rearreste1. Re-
corder Smith, addressing the Grand Jury,
| instructed them to investigate the case, and
said Police Justice Smith had exceeded his
powers in assuming to decide that the homi-
eide was justi6able His action, the Recorder
said, does not stop the Grand Jury from IL
dieting Conkling.
The Star Route Trial.
WASHINGTON, March 29sh.-Iu the star
route case the Smith & Jones memorandum
was produced, and Dorsey said positively
1 never gave that paper to Rerdeu st any
time. or in any place, or for any purpose, or
to any human being in the world. am
speaking of the paper as an entirety. gave
| the items in the first part of the paper to
Wilbur f. Kellogg This bookkeeper) to make
the entries on the 10th of May, 1879. Wit
ness then explained the nature of the items,
saying they included $4,000 to Peck and
$4,000 to John Dorsey. Witness said he
kept no account of the money received from
the Government. The sums were placed to
| his credit, and would be shown by his bank
| book He said he never had aconversation with
Rerdell about the Smith & Jones memoran-
dunn. It was rot given to him (Rerdell), but
! to kellogg. That is, the upper part. Among
| MANY entries in his book, said witness, pos
l sibly one was entered under the head of
| Samuel Jones, but even if there wa, it was
| not connected in any way with the mail bust.
ness There was no VIM. Smith. When
| Rerdell came over to New York he brought
only the route book. the Chamberlain con-
ference with Brady was on purely political
matters, Brady being Chairman CT the Indi.
ana State Committee. Mail matters were
not mentioned. Rsrdell's statement that
witness had prepared a tabulated statement,
setting out sums purporting to be allowed to
T. j. B., was absolutely false. Witness con-
tinued on the stand till adjournment. He
made specific denials OF various points in
Rerdells testimony, and Ingersell offered to
place in evidence large number of checks
and other documents, which the Government
counsel declined.
End Of the Hite Libel Suit.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.). March 29sk.-The libel
suit of George B. Hite and wife sgsins. the
Courier Journal, for the publication of state
ments relating to an alleged hsison between
Mrs. Hits and the late jesse James, which
has been on trial here for ten days. came to
conclusion this evening, the jury finding for
the defendant The amount sued for was
S25, COO A series Of questions were submit
ted TO the jury, which were answered in sub
stance as follows: Mrs. Hite had been in
love with aud had liaison with Jesse
James; that she had deserted her husband;
that she had correspohded clandestinely with
a young man in the neighborhood that the
Jesse James liaison had caused dissffection in
the Hite family that Mrs. Hite swore out
warrant against Wood Hite, her stepsop,
charging him with killing the negro Turner,
because Hite caught him carrying notes from
Mrs. Hite to the young man that the publ
cation in the Couricr-Jonfndl was substan-
TALLY true; that it was not made with mali
cious intent to SANDER and injure that there
were rumors in the neighborhood affecting