Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-17
rHE O,DoNnKLL CASE.
Representative FIserty Interviewed ~
IN Associated Press BepoFter.

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had within . few hours seen the RES
ident in regard to O'Donnelfs case. The
President could give no information beyond
the fact that the State department had taken
acsion in the matter, bat had - yet re-
eeived no advices. Finerty claims that
O,Donuelps execution on Monday would be
an insult TO the United States, and that II II
occurs, we mas - we'll say to England, you
NAV do With our people what You please Ii
such an insult were offered to any othsf ma
ton weaker than ours the dipfomanc reia-
tons with England would be suspended untu
the insult vas atoned for. But with ~ COM
nercial interests will ever be heid oearer
than national honor. In response to che sug-
ge,tiou thar if Congress declared for sus-
pension of the diplomatic relations England
night declare war. Finerty declared that
she would do morning Of the kind, but wouid
back down completely because she "ouio
know that in such struggle she had every
thing to lose. She might annoy US lof SIX
months. but within Is months At the eutsioe
we could .tarve her to death and she knows
il Finerty asserted that we had become
nation of shop-keepers and that the stars ana
stripes in our foreign relations was raPioiy
degeperating into sort of pocket handKef-
chief. To restore the ancient respectaouiV
of our flag Finerty would give some otner
element than shop-keepers chance lecon'
struct the navy, send an American to repre-
sent us in London, and recall that weak snoo
and duke of dudes, Lord Rector OF the UNI
versiry of Edinburg. :.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.
THURSDAY last Secretary Freilnghuysen
,ele 1ranhed TO Minister Lowell stating that
- Gopss Of Representatives had brought
the case OF O'Donnell to the Presidents no
,;ce m hone that it might secure reasonable
deIav in the execution of the sentence and
might ascertain whether the prisoner was
citizen of the United States and whether there
was an error in the trial. In the telegram
Mr. Lowell was instructed rs follows:
oAs before instructed you will consider
O,Donnell's citizenship established. there be-
ing in Great Britain no Judicial examination
on appeal of the proceedings at the criminal
trial possible. Errors can only be corrected
through a new trial or by executive action
unon the sentence, therefore this government
IL anxious that such careful examination be
given the proceedings in this case ~ to dis
cover An error should one bave been coDlt-
ted. You are therefore requested by the
President to request the delay of the execu-
ton of the sentence and that careful exami-
nation of the case be made BY Her Majesty
government, and that the prisoners counsei
be permitted to present any alleged points OF
error"
Secretary Frelinghuysen is now in receipt
Of a telegram from Lowell who states that on
the 10Th he received the above telegram and
immedistel communicated the substance to
Lord Granville who acknowledged its re-
CENT and stated that it had been referred to
the proper authorities; also that Saturday,
the 18th. Mr.. Lowell received Lord Grand
yille's reply in which the latter, after referr-
ing to Lowell's communication, stated that
the counsel for O'Donnell having submitted
representatives he thought 1t advisable on
the prisoners behalf that those representa-
lions and all other circumstances OF the case
be carefully examined and considered IN the
manner usual in a case of capital convictions
and that Her Majesty's government found no
grounds upon which they would be JUSTIFIED
in advising the crown 10 interfere with the
sentence, law or execution.
NEW YORK, Dec. l6.
The Brooklyn Eagles London special says
ODonnell Saturday, for the hrst time prac'
tically admitted he was an invincible. Sat
urday evening he sent for his brother. The
two had long private conference. When
the visitor emerged, upon being cioselv
pressed, made the following statement:
"For fear anything may happen to him be-
tween now and Monday, my brother sent for
and asked me to put before his friends his
last statement. He intends upon the scaffold
to say the following: Il killed james Carey
the informer; am not sorry for killing him;
never have been. Mot only that. but all Lon
don's wealth would net buy or induce me to
give any one away"
The police allege that plot exists among
the invincibles to kill Binns before the hour
of the execution if possible. The police as
sert tonight that the British government has
been informed from New York that strong
and we'll organized party of American in
vincibles left New York Thursday, Nov. 20,
by the Monarch Line, steamer Assyrian Mon
arch. for the purpose of attempting to res
cue O'Donnell. The party, the American
despatch says, is desperate, and have char
tered small and swift steamer in London to
convey the rescued fellow to sea. 1t is as
ridiculous as any idiotic scheme, as it must
seem to persons acquainted at Newgate or
other prisons; still, the Scotland Yard force
have taken official notice of it, and posted
strong corps of special men at Gravesand for
the purpose of arresiing the Americans when
the Monarch arrives Sunday. When ques.
toned about the matter tonight, the inspector
said the police believed that if the American
party came at all, their mission would be re-
venge against the officers and others engaged
in the prosecution of O'Donnell, and every
effort would be made to arrest the entire
party the moment the steamer lands. The
government has issued permit to the police
to search persons and baggage and examine
and identity every passenger arriving aboard
the Monarch, and undoubtedly some arrests
will be made, as the government believes the
information fiom New York a. specific and
reliable.