Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE PHOENIX PARK MURDER.


| Jam es Carry, member of the corporation !;
Joseph Brady, stone cutter; Edward
| Brien, a shoe maker; Edward McCotfeny,
a van driver; Peter Carey, a mason; Law
renee Hanlon, carpenter; Peter Doyle. a
coach builder, eight of the men recently ar
rested here, were charged at the investiga-
ton today, with the murder of Lord Fred
| erick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke
| in Phoenix Park.
witness named Fitzsimmons identified
Councilman Carrev as being connected with
the conspiracy. Mr.. Fitzsimmons deposed
that he rented room from James Garry. He
discovered in the lott of the house two knives
and rifle. which were produced soon after
Carreys arrest. A great excitement was WIS.,
ible among the occupants of the densely
crowded court room when the eight prisoners
were placed in the dock. There was a pain
full pause when witness FitzsimmOns was
called. The prisoners in the meantime
shook hands with each other and joked among
themselves, nodding to their friends.
The clerk of courts then read the charge
against the prisoners; that they did, on the
9th day of May last, feloniously kill and Stay
Lord Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke.
The reading of the charge was greeted by the
prisoners with burst of loud laughter,
which created painful sensation in the
court.
Fitzsimmons continued his testimony as
follows: The rifle and two knives were
found among a lot of rubbish. They were
not much concealed. A fortnight afterwards
he went to the police and delivered the knives
and rifle amid intense excitement.
Inspector Smith produced the two long
blades, dissecting knives evidently
| as sharp as razOrs, and a Snider rifle which
| is quite new. The knives were eagerly ex-
amined by the magistrates. During the pro-
ceedings there was just a shade of uneasi-
ness visible among the prisoners. In sup
port of the evidence against Carey, DIR. Por-
| ter. surgeon to the Queen, deposed that the
| cuts in the cloths and the wounds of Caven-
dish and Burke were infiiced by instruments
similar to those produced in court.
The Marquis of Headford. Mr. Tenkenson,
| director of the Irish criminal investigation
departments, and Mr.. Harrel, chief COM
missioner of the Dublin police, were among
those present in court.
Witness Fitzsimmons deposed that James
| Carey sonestimes visited the loft where the
| knives were found.
A cha;rmaker named Hands identified
O'Brien as one of the four men lying near to
scene of the murder, and Brady as bein z
close by shortly before it was perpetrated.
DIR. Myles deposed that some of the wounds
of Cavendish and Burke correspond exactly
to the knives produced.
DR.. Porter added that there were also
wounds which might have been caused by
weapons of different construction from the
knives procured, but there was nothing to
characterize about them. One wound was a
| compound fracture of the left forearm of
Lord Cavendish, which might have been
caused by any knive.
There was a long discussion between Muir
phey and Webb, prisoners counsel, the lat
ter contending that the witness Fitzsim-
mons had not definitely recognized Peter
Casey, when asked if he knew him.
The magistrates, however. ruled that the
| Identification was complete.
A female witness confirmed the evidence
of witness Hands,
Hands identified Brady as driver of the car
on which the Phoenix Park assassins rode
| Upon his identifying O'Brien, the latter at
tempted to smile, but soon afterwards broke
into perspiration.
| Inspector Smith was next examined. He
said the rifles and knives were concealed be-
| tween the ceiling of the house in which they
| were found.
The evidence of DR.. Porter was followed
| with the most extraordinary eagernes. The
| prisoners leaned over the dock apparently
drinking IN every word. DIR. Porter said
| the weapon that transfxed Burke Judging
| fromthe lenght of the wound must have
been nine or ten inches long. At this point
| the court room was crowded to suffocaton.
After another witness had identified Brady
and McCoffeny as being at the scene imme-
diately before the murder the case was re-
manded until Monday.
Hands unlike other witnesses was severely
cross-examined by the counsel for the pris-
oners. When he left the stand female
witness, who was his wife, was called. The
prisoners during the opening of her exami-
nation quietly shifted their places in the
dock apon her turning to identify them.
| There was some controversy as to whether
they ought not to resume to the order of
their standing in which O'Brien and Brady
had been identified by Mr.. Hands. Mrs
Hands, however, easily identified
At the examination of the alleged Phoenix
Park assassins today George Ghdden, an old
park ranger, deposd that at 7.2o o'clock on
the sixth of May, car with FIVE men driving
| furiously passed within ten feet of the Chapel
Ixodgate, and he identified Brady as sitting
on the side. This WAS felt to be strong evil
dence. The excitement in the court room
| increased a. the carefully woven chain was
unfolded.
| Brady alone occasionally nodded and whis-
pered to his companions. Powell, son of an
Asmall farmer, identified Brady and Nc
Cofney a. lurking under the trees of the
park on the evening of the murder.
As each prisoner was identified there were
loud EXPLANATIONS in the court room and the
magistrates threatened to clear it.
There was considerable commotion when
all the prisoners we're placed in the dock and
remanded until Monday.