Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-09
HOPE FOR O'DONNELL.
A Body OF Congressman Wait Upon
The President
And Request Him to Interfere in
His Behalf.
Sunset Cox Makes an Eloquent
ard Able Plea
For the Life of the Man Who
Killed the informer.
Sl.ccial % Ms RtAiStcr.

some interchange OF jocular remarks on
the political status, the callers all being
Democrats, Cox said: "Mr President,
there is q score or more Of gentlemen cone
TO speak to you in behalf OF PatricE o Don
nell, a citizen Of the nited States. de
has just been
hummariIy Tried and Sentenced,
to be executed on the l7lh inst. We do not
come as lawyers, criticising the procedure
by which he VAS convicted, nor DO We ask
he sentence TO be set aside because he took
the life of an informer. We simply ask
the pOstponement Of the execution il you'
intervention as our Chief Magistrate can
affect il, but as is the case VI the general
earnest sentiment uf the people We repre-
sent, | may be allowed 10 say, certsin facts
have produced broad, deep sealed sym
paIhy. These facts are that the killing
was Ut murder, not malice prepenSe, was
not deliberate. The elements Of murder
are lacking IN the case. The condemned
man was not a member OF any secret o:
gauizstion.
" hen lie Entered Upon the Voyage
ne wa not aware that Carey, the llnto'-
merl was his fellow passenger. He was
pursuing q bona file journey with his
wife to the Cape. The truth is III at the
killing was an sffrsy that grew out OF ar
occasion of sudden passion and had no con-
ncctiCn with the political events Of Ireland
Besides it is thought by many that the
trial was unfair, not to say cruel. The au-
thorities at the Cape. claimed jurisdiction.
II is q law Of The realm that the hEst port
in the nation where the laws are broken is
the locus in quo Tor triLl." Custom and Law,
unite TO condemn the pre- emf proceeding.
1t is cUutrs ry to English Jur sprucelce. Be
sides there was wanting an Old practice Oi
late abrOgated in England, where
The Jury Should Have Been I'm.
panelIed
from one half OF the nation which he be-
Ionped TO and the other half of the nation
by which he WAS tried. 1t is also certain
The Judge decided upon the facts as well y
the law, and thus was there mJckery upon
the Jury trial and a scandal upon justice.
| mention these matters, not for your pre-.
sentation Of them in diplomatic way. nor
that your administration may consider
il proper to critiZlZe, mach less 10 anG,hde-
matizp the action, OF the RC'isE Court.
We would not allow any reelection up.n
onr judicial action from the English GOV
ernment. Still these facts produced gen
eral and indescribable impression upon
the American people; as such recount
them.
This ~ mpnthy f. Intensified
By a knowledge that UDlnnell is a citizen
of this country, although naturaliz.d. bu'
yet, by treaty, he is in the same relation
as il born on our soil.
Gen. Collins-"It has been conceded anu
is veil known that he is a Citjlfn.'
Co1-"lf, Mr.. President, tEi, hurried eK
ecution takes place there will be shuddeF
run through onr people
Foran-"Is il not true J'DJnncI was
Union soldier"
Finerty-"It is so generally ported snd
understood 1t has not been cpntrihlCted.
Cox. continuing-"l.et us rn1-sro" 20 do
something. ! would not embsrra.5 the
Executive by undue requests, having long
served on the Committee on Foreign Ai
fairs have had occasion to
Protest Against tho Assumption
by Congress OF the diplomatic power, which
.ie 6 'usivelv lodged in your function.
a. ,ru have interfered in another
Al vi pr. Lawson. Ii was csse OF
" murder 1t had none Of the In
.pIts,.ug and international phases Of tEis
case. 1t did not evoke universal sympathy.
This csse does. Hence, as members OF Con-.
grPss We thus, though nnofficially, repre-
sent this universal sympathy. \ ll-Re
vote is among them and we are not little
interested, all Of us. Laughter In fact,
We represent twenty millions ot people OF
Irish descent among WHOM We cnu1t such
q soldier as General Sheridan, and you Mr..
President are
Proud 20 bc ReCknnrd Among the
De>ccndREts
OF this gallant race. Here the PresiirA'
smiled snd bowed assent % behalf o.
these sympsthilIng peopte ~ 'ie" o. the
facts We have related, we only asF yOI to
direct the S-Crersrv Oi : ate 10 OTens
negotiations that Will carry oai or earnesi
wirhes."
FInerty-"As ordinary diplomacy would
be too late may l. without imDrJpue'y.
suggest that negotiations for the rystprn"'
mtnt OF the execution Oe made oy ca5!t
and at once"
The President-"The execution is hrrc
for Monday Werk, the i7th. OK coI''c II
must be by cable
Cox-'It there should be q POSTPONE
mert Cf the eEs'u ion meanwhile. Eur b
rrpresentetions may be- made either D.
commute the senterce or "niarR" III.
prisoner under the proper conditions,
weAppenJ to Your rI.meR"y
aid humanity.
The President. in reply, said that tue De
partment OF State would at once te!ezrsrA
Minister Lowell to make all possible "a
ouiry regarding VTonnslIs citiz-nsnip,
spd thst be the PrerideniJ would take
ybatever acton he could with propr.ety.
Mr.. Cox, before retiring with the ielega-
ton, bsnced the President q copy Vf the
appeal prepared by the Clan Ma Gael A;so
cistIun which has been sent each Iuemher
OF Con greSs, and which in the main psrG IS
e. follows:
The set, for the com r,ission OF which our
fellovcitizen Patrick o DonneI! now swHts
execution. Was having dared TO de!eai,
successfully his life
Against IN Attempt Hsds. Upon Him
by a wretch who already mad betrayed aud
banded 70 death, several OF his oHn ss,c-
ci.tes. The conduct OF UDonnsll Is re-
earded as net only j0stif able, but merit
srious by hundreds Of thousands Of Ameri-
can citize ns ss is proved BY the liberal con
,ributions to the fund for bis defence. We
request your prompt aid TO relieve him
from his pending fate. not for these reason:
alone. but also because il is acknowledged
even ~ the prosecutors, not only was he
unccnnected with any society, but q1ite
ignorant Of Carey's identity until very
short time before tie sfffsy. Therefore,
The essential elements drlioeration pre-
meditation and malice afare thought ne
cssssry TO establish the
charge or Murder IL Totally WastisE.
Becsu.e the colonial az thorities At the
Cape Of Good Hope Insisted that he h.d
committed the alleged crime within their
jurisdiction ard ought consequently 70 be
tried in their courts, potsithstanding IN Z
which they we're compelled by the British
Government to yield him up thst he might
be tried in the centre Of its power; because
be vas no, tried "st the frst Of the po I na'
ton" ke w,s tsid TO have trsnsgressed &C
cording to legal nasge and requirement;
and becsuse the judge who presided at the
trisl contrary 10 !sw End precedent usdrr'
took 10 decida the lufstiap OF fack for che