The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-11
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Two of the Phoenix Park As
sassins Plead Guilty.
Both of Them Sentenced to Be
Hanged on June 2.

Patrick Delaney and Thomas Oafrrey, two
more of the men charged with participation
in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, were
arraigned for trial at Dublin on the I'd inst
They created sensation in the court room
by pleading Ruiltyto the charge against them.
Both were sentenced to be hanged on the I'd
of June. Before Carney had pleaded guilty
he was inf ormed by his solicitors that the
crown gave no hopes of mitigation or the
sentence Of death which would be passed
upon him. When Delaney was called upon
to plead he said Il am guilty of being In the
park at the time Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Mr. Burke were killed, but did not
commit the murder. Iplead guilty"
really amounted to the plea of innocence.
Delaney then formally pleaded guilty. He
said, Il was brought into this at first fool
ishly, not knowing what it was l was
forced from my work to go the park We
had to obey the orders of the society or take
the consequences. When l got in the park
l could not get away. l saw the murders
committed, but l took no part in them.
/ went to the park on Kavanaghs car.
He speaks the truth; 30 does Carey. The
murders were committed by Joe Brady and
Timothy Kelly, and by nobody else. / saved
/ was put on to shoot him by Mullett and
Brady. The only way to escape the task
was by calling the guards attention.
Judge O'Brien in passing sentence on Della
ney. said he had duty to perform. He had
at the previous trial Of prisoner for atL
tempting to shoot Judge LaInson pitied him
because he showed some feeling for his wife
and family The prisoner would see to what
misery they had been brought by the wicked
system of conspiracy.
When Caffrey was placed in the dock his
face wore a smile The consequence Of
plgadin0 pYnlnIned
him in open court but he persisted in his
plea On being asked whether he had any
thing to say why sentence should not now
be passed upon him, Catfrey replied, in q
loud, clear voice:
"All l have got to say, standing on the
brink of the grave, is that l did not know
what was going to happen until twenty min
utes before the murders were committed I
was bound to GO to the park under pain OF
death" The Judge, in passing sentence,
said that there were no means OF Judging
the truth of the prisoners statement He
did not decide that it was necessarily wholly
untrue
Thirteen of the prisoners who have been
confined in Kilmainham jail charged with
having been connected with the Cavendish-
Burke tragedy in Phoenix Park, who have
never been brought to trial on that
charge, says q Dublin dispa. Oh, have
been indicted and will be tried for
another crime. One of their number.
Joseph Hanlon has turned informer, and
produces evidence to connect them
with the conspiracies set on foot to murder
Earl Cowper, Mr.. Forster, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, and other prominent officials,
whose lives they jeopaidized, but did not
succeed in taxing. The Government re-
CARDS the evidence sufficient to convict On
the charge of conspiracy, while the men cam
not be closely connected with the Phoenix
Park association.