The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-06
Positive and Unequivocal Identification of
Kavanagh as the Driver of the Car
Containing the Assassins.
Excitement Caused by a Rumor that
Kavanagh Will Turn Informer.
Emperor William Returns Thanks for
American Assistance Rendered Sufferers
by the Floods ON the Rhine.
THE DUBLIN TRIALS.
Complete Identification of Kavanagh, the
Car-DriVer,

Complete Identification of Kavanagh, the
Car-Driver.
DUBLIN Feb. 5.--The investigation OF the
murder conspiracy charges was resumed to-
day The court was crowded. Michael Kav-
anagh, the carman marched into the pris-
oner's dock between two policemen. This
new departure caused much speculation.
The prisoner has low, retreating forehead,
sinister appearance, and looks anxious and
nervous.
A little girl witness, Ellen Brophy identi-
fed Kavanagh as the driver of the car con-
tanning the men who intended to kill Field,
the juryman. Besides Kavanagh, Joseph
Brady and Timothy Kelly were also ar
raigned in connection with the attempt to
murder Field After the hearing of the evil
dence against the prisoners accused of the at
tempt to murder Field, the two Careys, two
Mullets Whelan, Brady, Kelly and Kava-
nagh were charged with the murder of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Burke. The reason
the investigation of the attempt against
Field was taken up is that the authori-
ties intended to complete the evidence in
that case to-day, and then ask that the pris-
Kavanaugh by Ellen Brophy was particu-
larly complete. She says she spoke to him,
asked him whom he was waiting for. She
saw him when going on messages three times
in half an hour. Immediately after her re-
turn the third time she heard cries of 'mur-
der and at once ran to the door BY that
time there were two men besides the drive
on the car; the third man was Just mount
ing, and she was only able to identify Kav-
anagh. She was severely cross-examined,
but never faltered
Much time was occupied in proving that
the letting of q large room in Peter street TO
James Cary ostensibly as a reading room
but really for the purpose Of drilling men,
He left the room in October 1879
William Winter was placed on the stand
to prove the letting of importance hall, in
Cuffee street, to Patrick Whalen for drilling
purposes. He failed to identify the prison
ers This witness, amid great laughter, de-
MED that the term witness for the crown"
was applicable to him.
l. A witness named Clinton, who let room
on Peter street, used a drill room iden
tilted Brady and James Cady. The seizure of
arms in Whalen's house was formally
proved
After the evidonea of tho finding of erAnnu-
| milton. revolver and two daggers in Joseph
Mullitts house. the prisoners were manded
until Saturday next.
THE SENSATION OF THE DAY
was the reading of extracts from the books
found when the Fenian armory in Cross
kelvin street was seized. The diary of Patrick
Whelan records his appointment as treasurer
of the executive of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood; records the purchase, in Lon
DON of rifles ana an electric battery; a meet
ing of the executive to consider resolution,
which was afterward proposed at rotunda
meeting of the Land League by the Nation
| alsts, and meeting TO consult on the advis-
ability of sending James Maher to America
to consult Our Chief" James Stephens.
This reference to Stephens particularly
caused laughter among the prisoners and
people. One page of the dairy reads:
"Prior to the death of John Mahony, the
| |. r. B. had lost its former effectiveness and
prestige. No longer dreaded as a revolution
ary body it had become a mere tool IN the
hands of parliamentary aspirants.'
Another book contained a list of members
| of workman's club.
| The police inspector admitted that Whelan
was formerly arrested, but not tried.
| policeman testified to finding the muir
| dered body of Bailey, the informer The
prisoners counsel declared that this matter
was wholly irrelevant. The crown counsel
| replied that he was prepared TO prove that
! the prisoners were members of a conspiracy,
10 WnlCn ne would trace all uIle nurCerS IN the
city during the last few years, and he would
prove that Bailey was connected with the
| discovery of the Fenian armorv.
| An informer has rendered evidence in re-
gard to the murder of Herbert, near Castle
Island, in March last. The supposed muir
derer is now in prison.
The Lord Lieutenant has appointed from
the 18th of February to the 18th of March foH
holding sessions to hear appeals under the
crimes act.
The bishop of KIllala has issued pastoral
condemning secret societies as establishing a
tyranny compared to which the state of
things they profess to desire to remove is
! liberty itself
There is TIE widest excitement in the city
over what appears to be well-founded re-
port that Michael Kavanagh, the ca driver,
has turned informer The government has
been working to this end for several days
Kavanagh has been gradually weakening, and
| his bravery has now left him. From the
| fact that Kavanagh can tell the whole story
of the murder and name the conspirators in
dividually. the feeling among citizens is in
tense. The detection of Kavanagh will prove
bombshell in the cnnspirators' camp. The
police are now making every effort to force
confession as the one means left to them for
breaking up the league and bringing the
murderers to justice.
AN EMPEROR'S THANKS.