Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-02-21
The Dublin Murders.

The curse of Ireland in her long ant
to a great extent just contention witt
British rule has been the use of intimida
ton and murder by the more brutal @
the Irish partisans. While no country CA
show line of patriots more brilliant o
brave than Ireland the efforts of thes
men who were worthy of being tn
liberators of their native land ha
been made of little avail by the fact tina
another set of men who called themselve
pa riots we're really demagogues and thes'
last named fellows by themselves or NOR
likely by get more degraded tools did mo-
hesitate to commit mi RIDER.
The killings that have disgraced Irelan'
reached their most famous, though no
their worst, eminence in the assassination
of Lord Frederick Cavendi;h and Undel
Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin
on the 9th of last May. Lord Cavendist
has Just reached Ireland and the change
had been made by the Gladstone govern
ment to indicate milder policy TOWARD
the unhappy island. But before daylight
was gone the knives had done their work
the two men lay dead and the assassins
had escaped.
Various arrests were made but nothing
came of them. The murders were de-
nounced by Irishmen and the Irish news
papers were in the front rank OF those
who condemned the dead. Time passed
on and it began to look as though the
mystery would never be solved but the
government kept making arrests and
within couple of weeks put large
number of persons on examination for the
murder. The result of this examination
will be the holding of about twenty
prisoners for being concerned in the
matter.
1t will be remembered that in May it
was known that four men were driven
from the park in Car and there was
great search for the car driver who could
not be identified. At length Michael
Kavanagh was identified as the driver OF
this car (Which corresponds to the cab of
our cites.) Ten days ago Kavanagh
turned states evidence. He said he was
at the Royal Oak public house in Park.
gate street May 9th when four men,
Joseph Brady, Timothy Kelly and two
strangers, one of whom while on the
stand he identified as Patrick Delaney,
hired him to drive to the park. There
they found Town Councillor James Carey
and Daniel Delaney on seats at the side
of the road.
The men expected another car driven
by Fitzharris one of The prisoners. Delaney
said they were watching for the CHIEF
secretary. Soon the other carman, Fitz-
harris appeared and four men alighted
Cavendish and Burke appeared soon after
walking arm in arm and as they came
near the group Carey or Delaney raised
white handkerchief as a signal for the
killing which was soon done and Kavanagh
drove rapidly away with Brady, Kelly,
Carey and Delaney.
The evidence Of Kavanagh's was Cor.
roborated by many witnesses in many OF
its details, yet there at once was great
bowling in Dnblin against such evidence
and many hot blooded men who think
themselves patriots went about to discredit
it and even some of our own reputable
Irish newspapers cast slurs upon the
stories of Kavanagh and those who swore
to the same things in part. With strange
perversity some of them seem to think
that person accused is necessarily
saint and that when one of these saints
starts in to tell how a thing really was
his saintship deserts him and its opposite
takes possession.
But last Saturday to the surprise of ALL
Councillor James Carey who was leader
of the gang who committed the murders
went on the stand and made a full state
ment corroborating Kavanagh's story
throughout and showing that he had been
n Fenian since 1862 and that for two or
three years a select society had been
organized whose duty it was TO remove
tyrants."
Carey says he did not under stand Lord
Cavendish was to be killed but only
Burke. According to him Joseph Brady
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ending it by cutting Burke's throat.
Thomas Caffrey is identified as one Of the
men On the car. So that again the old
saw that murder will out is made true
again and Brady, Kelly, Delaney and
Caffrey will probably have TO swing as
we'll as some of the seventeen others now
in prison and some as yet not arrested,
who were in the secret organization and
knew of the thing TO be done in general
If not in particular.
1t will not do for Irish patriots to
denounce the crime and sustain the
criminals. 1t is of no use to denounce
Kavanagh and Carey; they are as bad as
the others, but treachery can add nothing
TO the degradation of men debased and
brutal enough to have engaged in the
tragedy in Phoenix Park that May evening
None of the Irish leaders are shown to
have been privy to the dongs of The
society which was the hot Ted where the |
crime got its growth.
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