Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
The Dublin Detective.

Mr.. Mallen, the Superintendent of the
Dublin detective force, to whom is
chiefly due the credit of the detection
and punishment of the Invincibles, has
been awarded G1,OOo, and will receive
promotion. One incident which is up to
the present known to but few, will carry
. good idea of the danger he underwent
from the Iavincibles, who perfectly well
knew his ability and determination, and
the necessity of sending him to the grave.
While a Coercion act known as the Pro-
lection of Person and Property act, was
importation, under'which any suspected
person might without trial be Kept in
Jail for two years, James Mullet, one of
the four chiefs of the Invincibles, was
arrested as a Suspect" and confined in
Dundalk jail. After he had been kept
there for some time he received news
chat oneof his children was dying Of
scarlet fever. He petitioned to be al
lowedto see his child before it died, and
On the earnest recommendation ofSupt.
Mallen, to whom he had appealed, was
permitted to come to Dublin and visit
his child. He expressed the warmest
gratitude to the Superintendent,
and declared that he would never
forget the kindness that had been done
him. He, however, had no personal
interview with Mr.. Mallen. who from
that time heard nothing from him until
some time after the Phoenix park
murders, when Mullett, who wasthen
at liberty and at home, wrote to him,
asking him to meet him at a certain
place at Glasnevin, q suburb of Dublin,
saying he had something to tell him.,
and again referring in terms of warm
gratitude to the very great kindness he
had previouslo received from the Super
intendend. Mallen, well knowing that
Mullett was foremost among the Fenians
and in that other secret society of which
The police had some clew, and believing
that possibly the man wished to make
some disclosures to him, and considering
that, in consequence of what he had
done for Mullett, no harm, at all events
was meant for him, replied by letter
chat he would keep the appointment.
On the day arranged he set out for the
trysting spot, which he had reached
within about a quarter Of a mile when
on the road he CHANGED to meet his
brother, who is also in the police. In
casual conversation his brother observed:
II have just seen James Mullett and a
half dozen of the boys down the road,
and they can not be about any good"
The brothers then parted, but the Su-
p~erintendent, becomming suspicious
from what had been said, turned into
the next public-house and there awaited
events. After some time Mullett
entered and reproached Mallen for not
having kept his appointment, and en-
deavored to persuade him to go on to
the rendezvous, where, he said, they
could talk freely. Mallen, however,
refused to leave the public-house, his
suspicion of harm being strengthened
by Mullett's manner, and finally the
oonspirator took his departure, declar.
ing that it would not be safe for him to
speak there on the matter on which he
had intended. Mallen then returned
homeward. Had he in the first place
kept the appointment OF had he after.
ward yielded to the solicitations OF
Mullett, he would never have returned
home alive that day, for it had been or.
ranged to assassinate him at the APP.
pointed meeting place-a lonely portion
of the road.-C0r. Philadelphia Press.