Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-26
THE PHUNIx Pack AssAssINs
yyho is Responsia1e for Then, ?


Who Is Responsible for TheA,e
| To the Editor of the Globe:
F! In published interview of May 7, 1882,
l expressed the opinion that the real au-
thors, instigators or abettors of the muir
! ders of Lord Cavendish and Mr.. Burke, on
May 6, in Phoenix park, Dublin, belonged
| to the Forster faction of the alien govern
ment, just deposed. Buckshot Forster had
| tried the ''blood and iron" rule in Ireland
| for over two years, and had signally
| failed. Lord Cavsndish came as the bearer
of flag of truce, to conclude an uncon-
| ditional surrender of the coercion forces to
| the people of Ireland. The jails had been
opened. The trusted leaders of the Irish
nation were ones more free. blow at
! Lord Cavendish, under such circumstances
the representative of an alien and q
despised government though he was,
could not be else than stab at the heart
of Ireland, at her dearest hopes. just bios
soming with the promise of a
full fruition. So that it seems
| logically to follow that every
motive for the deed was wanting on the
part of the Irish people. While every mo-
tive growing out of chagrin, disappoint.
rnent, aud the devilish greed of despotic
power upon which it could alone live, ex-
listed Forster's gang to inaugurate a reign
of blood and terror and thas defeat the new
departure on the very threshold.
23d Feb, '83, cablegram reads:
LONDON, Feb. u, In the commons Gorst's
amendment was again debated.
Forster defended his own course previous to
his resignation. The prevention OF crimes act
was not accepted before the release of suspects,
but he had advised that it was urgent. But for
the Phoenix park murders, Ireland would have
believed ParneI supreme and would therefore
have become ungoTernable. Recent disclosures
increased toe suspicion that the land league was
connected with the Outrages.
l call particular attention of your read
ers to these remarkable words from Mr.
Forster's own lips, unless the cable mis-
park murders, Ireland would have believed
Parnell supreme and would therefore have
become upgovernable.'' Who was most
interested in defeating this contamination
certainly not Mr.. Parnen or any of his
party. "Ungovsrnabls" here means OBJ
viously ungovsrnablo by the British power.
Mr.. Forster was most interested ia pre-
venting the supremacy of Psrnell. Mr..
Forster was most interested in keeping
Ireland 'sgovernAbls," with ''buckshGt' and
bayonets. Mr.. Forster was on trial.
Mr.. Forster's rule in Ireland
must DO vindicated. Hence the
necessity for murders like Phoenix park to
fire the English heart and forge new chains
for the Irish, or invent new fortunes for a
desperately goaded nation.
Now follow this up little. Thsre have
lately been had preliminary trials in Dub
lin of the alleged assassins, and that curse
of Ireland, the inforner, is getting in his
work. James Carey, T. O., is the approver,
and on the oath of this confessed assassin
score of men will probably hang. In
the Dublin Freemdn's Journal, of Feb. s.,
is found a verbatim report of one of the
| examinations in these alleged conspiracy
cases. In that l find the remarkable evi-
dence of one Fitzsimmons, that he was a
tenant of James Carey, the informer, in
May, 1882, and that on the Monday eve
ming following the Phoenix park assassi-
Aations-that is, on May 8, 1S92-this
man, James Carey, his landlord, came to
his (FitzsimmonsO cottage, bringing with
| him a ladder; that, using this ladder
| Carey passed up through manhole in the
ceiling into a small 'cockioft' overhead
and remained there some timo, and after
ward went away without giving any ex
PLANTATION of the cause of his visit; that
on the following Monday night the wife Of
James Carey, his brother and another
man, unknown to Fitzsimmons, visited
the cottage that they brough
ladder, aad the men passsd
up through this opening and into thi.
| 10,
wards going away without explanation
Then Mr.. Fitzsimmons became curious ant
with the aid of table and chair ht
mounted into the cocklofs and went upon
an exploring expedition. What did ht
find? He found repeating rife and two
long, keen bladed surgeon Knives careless
| ly laid among some rubbish. Mr.. FitZ
simmons swesrs that he Immediately mott
fed the police of his discovery, and tina
within fortnight after James Carsy's frs
visit on May 9Th the authorities had pos
session of this arsenal ard of all tn
knowledge preferred by the witness as Il
who it belonged. These knives arc pro
duced in court, bloodstains are found to b,
upon one of them and it is claimed the,
were the instruments OF the murders
Mr.. editor, does it not seem strange tina
James Carey should have walked Dublin
streets free man from, say, Nay 22,1882
when the police received this startling in
formation from Fitzsimmons, until the be
ginning of this year, unless there had al
ways existed secret understanding be
tween Carey and the government. Ibeliov'
firmly that James Carey, the informer O
to-day, has always been the hired ASSASSIN
of the British government in Ireland
Hired to prey upon his misery goaded ant
impulsive countrymen by seducing then
into violent and damnable schemes-hirec
with British gold to make merchandise o
his brothers blood.
Upon no other hypothesis can the fac
above be explained. The testimony shows
that Carey never left Dublin from the da.
of the murder until his arrest in January
last. Upon no other hypothesis can b.
explained his singular conduct in placing
these weapons in Fitzsimmons
cottage almost under Fitzsim-
mons eyes. Upon no othel
by pothesis than that TO the coercion par
ty in Ireland, conspiracy was q burning
necessity last year, lest ireland woult
have believed Parnell supreme, and would
therefore have become Hngovernabls.'
| And a conspiracy being thus 4 necessity