Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-02
Dramatic Scenes in the Court Room
at Kilmainham.

Dramatic Scenes in the Court Room
at Kilmainham.
Dublin, February II, Dispatch to the London
Times.
The scene in the court house of XII.
mailman yesterday was one OF strange
and thrilling interest. The galleries
were filed with spectators, and were
guarded by stalwart constables, rs
were also the seats below which were
reserved for the press and for men,
bers Of the bar. While the bench and
the dock were still u%noccupied, the
assembly waited In patient expectation
and oonversed upon the all.sbsorblng
subject. AT length the Grown coun.
sci arrived; the mi sistrstes, Mr.
Reyes, Q. c., aud MI. Woodlock, took
their soats, together with Mr.. G..
O'Donel, the junior magistrate, who
sat ON the bench, but took no official
part in the inquiry. A oommotion
was then heard in the dock; half a
dozen burly policemen clustered at one
side, and in a few minutes the prls-
oners were seen emerging from
the underground passage which
communicates with the jail. All eyes
In court we're turned upon them, and
1t was observed that the positions of
the moro prominent were changed,
that some were absent who had stood
with them In former days, while two
new comers had been substituted for
them The two Mullets, who had
been In the front, were now hardly
visible in the background, but Joe
Brady was In the place which he occu.
pied on the last occasion, while James
Carey, the town counselor of the Dab.
lin corporation, had resigned his old
place to Fitzharris, more generally
known on the cabstands as "Skin the
Goat" Had an artist arranged the
group tor effect, it could not have
been better done, for "Skin," as he is
fondly called by his friends, looked
at noe a contrast and a counterpart
of "Joe," who might still have been
regarded as the villain of the piece
but for the superior title to that dis.
tinction which was stamped on Fitz.
harris face. To attempt to dercribe
his features would be useless, for it Is
difficult to find any. They appeared
to have been all knocked Into one,
like those of q battered prize fighter
fresh from q "mill," his eyes being
almost closed, and his nose flattened
out, with only enough left to mark
the spot where 1t had been. Indeed,
his whole face Is of vermilion hue,
gnarled as an oak and grizzley as a
bear.
Beside him stood another stranger,
a young man named Hanlon, about %
years of age, with black hair and
moustache, and of rather respectable
appearance. Next to him In front
Of the dock stood Timothy Kelly, who
looks quite q lad, of q soft, boyish
countenance, but of q reckless man.
ner.
The party on entering the dock
manifested, but In Q less degree, the
defiant spirit which they at first as.
sumed, but there was o remarkable
transformation In their demeanoI
when Kavanaugh assembled the table
to give evidence against them. They
looked aghast, and In them confusion
and despair were betrayed In every
look, though they sometimes made
an effort to appear Indifferent. As
the witness related each incident OF
the dreadful story, and identified the
the prisoners, whom he named, their
countensnces reflected In the dark
shadows which passed across them,
the dismsy which they felt. Brady
literally uttered q howl Of hate and
fury like that of . wild beast when
Kavanaugh pointed to him, and then
buried his face In his hands.
He rested on the bar of the
dock while the nervous working of his
face indicated the agitation and ex.
element under which he lsbored.
The account which the witness gave OF
the movements of the assassins before
they did their cruel work, and the
route which they took when they sf-
fected their escape, was listened tt
with breathless interest. The general
silence observed by the audience wa
rudedy broken by such EXPLANATIONS
ss "You Scorpion" and "You r
liar" from Fltzharris, who, with ARM
folded, and his face as red as bis mufi
er, scowled upon the witness from thu
dock, while Delsny, who sat In from
of It, crouched 80 low as hardly to be
visible. On the part of the spectator
there was a spontaneous exhibition o
feeling, which, however much to b'
condemned as q breach of propriety,
vas q most natural and almost IRE
pressible expressions of sympathy
With the forcible observations of Mr.
Murphy as to the character of the
crime and the determination Of the
crown to use every title of evidences
which could throw light upon it anc
held to bring the guilty parties to jus
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