The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-17
Review of the Irish Trouble.


Irish troubles is taken from the Baltimore
San OF the 18th. 1t is connected story
OF some OF the most prominent events in
the complications between England and
Ireland, and will recall to the minds of our
readers much that has been forgotten dur
ing the past year. The San says:
1.-The terrible sequel to the Phoenix Park
tragedy and it's catalogue of trials will
open to-day with the execution of Joseph
| Brady. A brief review Of the history OF
| the crime, which caused such a shock to
| the well wishers of Ireland everywhere.
and of its melancholy outcome, will not
now be amiss. On the 9th of May, 1882.
Lord Frederick Cavendish, not long after
his arrival as newly appointed chief sec
Rotary for Ireland, and Thomas Haviland
Burke. who for several years served as UNI
der secretary, were aSSaSSinated few
minutes before seven O'Clock in the even
| ing while walking in Phoenix Park, Dub
| lin. The deed was perpetrated within
view of the windows of the vice-regal
lodge, and many persons witnessed the
struggle between the aSSaSsinS and their
victims, but took no special notice, beliey-
| ing it to be an ordinary fight. The princi-
pal assaSsins, it was subsequently diScOv-
cred, came to the park i'll a car, and when
| they had completed their crime, escaped
| by the same means. The boldneSs of the
| deed intensified the horror of it, not only
/ in England, but in Ireland also, and, oc-
curing as it did, after the passage of the
land acts giving ''fixity of tenure, fair
rents and free sales'' of their interests in
| their holdings to the Irish tenant farmers,
aroused an intense feeling of bitterness in
| England against the Land League, which
| led to the adoption of cOerciYe measures
stronger than any that had been applied to
! Ireland before. Who were the perpetra-
| tors of this bloody crime were involved in
a profound mystery. Rewards amounting
| to ten thousand pounds sterling were Of
| fered by the government for information
that would lead to the arrest and convic-
tioneof one or more of the principal assas-
| sins. Five thousand pounds were offered
to any one giving secretly such hints OF
clues as might put the police on the track
of those whom they had yainly sought, and
| accomplices in the deed who were not ac-
| tive participants were assured of a free
| pardon and protection if they would inform
against their guiltier associates. For nine
months the mystery appeared to be as pro-
| found as ever, and it began to seem rs If
those murders. executed with SO much
| hardihood and address, would remain in
| mystery to the end. A new chief of po-
| lice, trained in the way of detecting crime
| in India, was put at the head of the Irish
| What men he employed, what methods he
pursued and through what agencies he
| gathered up the threads OF the conspiracy
may never perhaps be accurately known.
| His researches were made quietly. Sud-
denly arrest after arrest was made of per-
| sons accused Of being connected directly
on ir,1ir t1x,1 hn t,.om 90
discovered that there eXisted.in Dublin a
secret oath-bollnd organization, known as
the Irish Invincibles, all of whose men
| bers were leagued together to put to death
any person who might be regarded as OBJ
noXiOus to the association either as an Of
| fetal under the British government, or in
any way concerned in acts that the Irwin
| cibles might deem detrimental to the Irish
cause. OF those who were doomed to death
| by the timer circle" of the association,
| ME-. Forster, the secretary OF state for Ire
| land, was one, and OH three separate occa-
| slons on which his footsteps were logged
| by the men appointed to kill him, he mar
rOWly escaped the death to which the asso-
| citation had condemned him. A second
person singled out for assassination was
Judge Lawson, but Patrick Delaney, who
was ordered to do the killing, went about
his work so bunglingly Intentionally SO,
| he afterwards declared) that he was az
! rested before he could strike the blow
| A third person who was attacked and
| grievouSly, almost mOrtally, wounded, was
| Dennis Field, whose firmness in the Jury
| box caused him to be singled out by the In
vincibles as a victim, so that his fate
might inspire other jurors with terror if
| they brought in verdicts against Irishmen
arraigned for crime. Secretary Burke had
.11I 20,
| it was against him, and not Lord Freder-
lex Cavendish, that an attack was az
| ranged in Phoenix Park the killing of Lord
Cayendish being regarded as a necessity
when it was found that he was walking
with Mr. Burke at the time appointed for
the murder Of the latter. The Dublin
leader OF this band of aSSaSSins was James
Carey, a member of the city council, and
a man in fairly good circumstances. He
twas who was present in Phoenix Park at
the time OF the murder, and who gave
with his handkerchief the signal for the
assassins to strike. To save his own neck
he has since turned informer, and it is
from his testimony that the whole of the
secrets of the society of the Invincibles
has been exposed and the names of the
men who actually committed the Phoenix
Park murders, as well as of those who
were present on the occasion, directly OF
indirectly assisting. But back even of the
inner circles of the InvincibleS, if Cary and
and other witnesses are to be believed, there
was another to whom all yielded obedience,
who seems by some accounts to have hel the
purse strings, and who, except to a few OF
the initiated, was simply known as Num-
Der One. This person, it is alleged, was
Peter lyman, who is now supposed to be
in the United States, and against whom,
| Wp1l nc p IJ ShariIon al1I Tnhn Wo1ch
who are also refugees, the Dublin grand
jury brought in on Thursday last true
bills. The active agents in the Phoenix
Park assassinationS were Joseph Brady,
who killed Lord Cavendish, and Timothy
Kelly, who killed MI. Burke. Brady, who
was first tried. was convicted partly on
the testimony of Carey, but that testimO-
ny was supported strongly by other wit
nesses. He is also the first to suffer the
penalty OF his crime, his execution taking.
place at Dublin to-day. Kelly has had
three trials. Twice he escaped conviction
bya disagreement of the jury, but at the
third trial last week the testimony of De-
laney, who was present with Carey at
Phoenix Park, and an eyewitness of the
murder, was admitted, and Kelly, after
brief absence of the jury, was found gull
ty and sentenced to be hanged on June 2.
Michael Pagan, who was tried on April
81, charged with assisting at the murder
of Mr.. Burke was sentenced to be hanged
on the 2Sth of the present month. Patrick
Delaney, who pleaded guilty on Wednes-
day last, and Thomas Caffrey, who refused
to plead, were convicted and sentenced to
be hanged also June 2. Delaney had his
sentence subsequently committed to hard
labor for life. All these men were partic-
ipants in the Phoenix Park murders, and
other trials are to follow growing out of
the same crime. In London the dynamite
clsonsspirators are on trial, and at Belfast
thirteen members of the Armagh Assoca-
ton Society have been found guilty and
sentenced to terms of penal servitude rang
ing from five to ten years.
The above is simply the connected story
of the events. The causes which led to
those events, and which extend back for
years. were referred to byus last week.