The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-08-18
Xhs Doom OF Irish Informers.

In2 fate of Bailey, who was MUIR
defe# NJ Shippers alley, Dublin, in
tne 5'er end of 1881, should have
tausN Carey how little dependence
ne cellM place upon police protection
WiiSzK Nls services were no longer re-
gun This Baiy gave information
10 tHe WthOrities which enabled them
10 nsaW one of the most extensive
seizlzfe of arms and ammunition
ever ashieved by them in Ireland.
IwsRtFfive rifles. ten revolvers, 12,-
00V rollnds of ammunition, an i'm
meiiSe stere of dynamite, illuminate
OF tlsfcnry, detonating caps and gun
poWuer fell in their hands through
BaileYs instrumentality. How did
the Ropernment reward him! After
fortnight they withdrew police pro-
tectiop from him, but preferred to
re- ,'ni,ll so, Y fare to London. a generosity
~ silh would have have iessened the
Britishexchequer by about S5. The
wretchet man begged to be sent out
to some Distant colony. pleading that
his life world be in as much jeopardy
In London IS in Dublin. The repre-
sentative OF the crown in Ireland
could not dream of becoming respon-
sible forsuch az extravaganza. Bailey
was turned alrift. His landlord
would not let. him back into his
miserable tenenent. His employer
would not give,him another hours
work. He was brced with his fam
lily into the work-louse. Even there
the paupers turnel against him and
rendered his existence so unendur-
able that he Yentuled into the outer
world again with the desperate re-
solve to beg or steal as much as would
take him out of the country. Three
days after his body was discovered in
Shippers alley, and two bullets in
his head told from what quarter his
death sentence had come. No clue
has ever been found to justify an ar
rest for the crime.
Other Irish informers, too, have
been uniformly foredoomed from the
moment they appeared in the wit
ness box to tender evidence against
their former friends. Pierce Nagle
was the first traitor Of importance in
the Fenian ranks. To his revelations
were due the convictions of the staff
of the Irish People newspaper, and
the first executive of the Irish Rev
lutionary Brotherhood-Luby, o.
Leary, Kickham, O'Donovan, Rosa
aad the rest. After his nefarious
work had been accom- plished he dis
appeared, and for eleven years moth
ing was heard of him. But the ven
geance and hatred of an Irish con-
spiracy is everlasting, and in 1876
eleven years after his treachery) it
overlook Pierce Eagle. One cold,
gray autumn morning his corpse was
found under a London railway arch,
and a huge cheese knife driven
through the back and penetrating the
heart told that he had not died from
natural causes.
Warmer, the Cork informer, who
was the first to reveal the existence
of the seditious spirit in the army.
was attacked a year or so subsequent
ly in Clontarf. He was severely
wounded, but did not die then, and
his assailant, who was taken on the
spot, got off with twenty years penal
servitude. Warmers wounds hasten
ed his death and added to the agony
of his last moments.
Talbot, TO whom the lifelong i'm
prisonment of Sergeant Mccarthy
and other military Fenians was due,
escaped for five or six years but it
was only respite, not reprieve.
He was eventually shot through the
head in Hardwicke street. Dublin,
after leaving a brothel. He died in
terrible pain, which was intensified
by the bungling of surgeons who at
tended him, and who, in probing for
the bullet, explored every inch of his
cranlum,
Another military informer named
Meara was shot dead in a public house
in Bishop street, Dublin, before he
had ended his appearances as a wit
ness in the courtmartial. The last
informer who suffered the death
penalty previous to Carey was man
named Clarke, who was traced all the
way from Mayo to Western Austria
liza, and shot whilst engaged in plow-
ing a field. PhiLadelphia Times.