New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-11
THE DUBLIN AS>ASSINS.

The Dublin disclosures Will be received with
feelings of the lveliest satisfaction, not only IN
England but wherever cOwardly and dastardly
murders excite adherence. The crime IN
Phoenix Park was q diabOlcal outrage from
which the whole world recOiled in horror.
Planned in the wantOnness of maevOlence at
the moment when the prison doors had been
opened and u Cavendish had been sent to Dub
lin bearing tidings of peace, 1t was executed
with savage fcrOcity. In its consequences that
hideous crime has been disastrous TO the Irish
cause. for it created a revusiOn Of feeling in
the island against the outrages and the intimida-
ton living in the track of that social revolu-
ton for which Nh. Parnell had given the sig
nal. Irishmen shrank back aghast from a Land
agitation which had eliminated in systematic
lawlessness and assassination; the English
heart was hardened and the sympathies of man
kind were estTanged. But while the crime
proved whitening curse to the Land move
ment, clustering disgrace to the Irish people,
the murdereTs had escaped. So completely had
they bafiled pursuit that they were emboldened
to resume their execrabe trade and to plot new
murders in the streets of Dublin. But now at
last they are unmasked and Justice can he
done. Those covering figures and blanched faces
in tho dock, where their confederate pointed
them cut one by Ole, virtually confessed Their
guilt Even If they had looked and acted like
innocent men Instead of the snllen desperadOes
and abject creatures they were, KavGnaghs
testimony would have convicted them. Tainted
with suspicion as every informer's revelations
must be, his account of the tragic scene in
Phoenix Park is plain, direct and conclusive.
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assassinations of Justice Lawson and Juror
Field were plotted by the same group of muir
derers who had butcheied the Secretaries in the
twilight last May, and that the innocent blood
which was then she'd will speedily be avenged
Kavanagh's testimony confirms the cOnjec-
ture generally formed in Dublin at the time Of
the assassinations that it WAS Mr.. Burke rather
than Lord Frederick Cavendish for whom the
consprators were lying in wait. The Secre-
taries had met unexpectedly after Mr.. Burke
had been passed by the van containing one de-
tachment of the assassins, and Lord Frederick
CavendIsh in this way shared his associates
terrible fate. The Assassination Circle was
made up of picked men of the old-time Fenian
organization, and inasmuch as the members
had decided that some distinguished official
must be murdered it was natural for them to
select one against whom they had an old
score Mr.. Burke had been instrumental in
convicting many prominent Fenians in previ-
GUS years, and although the organization was no
longer in existence, those who bad served their
apprenticeship in it's ranks marked out their
old enemy for slaughter. The account which
Farrell, another informer, has given of the or
eanization of the inner circle as a secret COM
mittee of old-ume enians having for its object
the murder of officials, judges jurors and in
formers. Is fully confirmed By Kayalagh's testl-