The Irish standard., 1886-04-24
KELLY EXTRACTION CASE.
The Blood-Thirsty British Columbians Re
fused their Victim by the Wash
ington Authorities.
THE ARCH-SCOUNDREL DAINERD
A Peculiar Case Of Mistaken Identity
$4,000 Already Expended
on the Oass.

| pCOtOOC allSbIy 4.A DolltCA
on the Oass.
| The news received by wire few day:
ago that the Government ut Washing
ton had refused to allow Edward Kelly
to be extradited on the charge Of mur-
der preferred against him by the Ca
madam Government was received will
feelings Of considerable delight by {
great many lrishmen in st. Paul. The
manner of action OF the Britishers was
looked upon as something approaching
persecution. This had been the second
trial, the evidence Of the first one hav.
ing been rejected by the authorities al
Washington as insufficient. Imme-
diately upon Kelly's release he was re.
arrested upon an affidavit OF a sconn-
drel named Dainerd, whose demeanol
in the witness box during the trial was
alone sufficient justification for the
commissioner to order the immediate
release of the accused. He swore that
|
the deceased on the trail of death in the
far away mountain ranges Of British
Columbia on the occasion Of the mur-
der; that on hearing the first shot he
turned around and saw Baird, the
murdered man, fall from his horse, and
on looking to the spot from whence the
shot came, he saw Kelly, the accused
behind stump of a tree with Win
chester rifle aiming to shoot the other
man who accompanied them, land who,
by the way, was not produced by the
Britishers, inasmuch as it was justly
surmised his evidence would tend ma
terial1y to connect another person with
the muri1er.) lie then pat spurs to his
horse, and by circuitous route reached
the spot from whence he and the others
started. Da;nerd's evidence was sup
ported by hog-rancher named John
SON, who boasts Of the appellation, A
North of ireland Oraugeraan." He
swore that the day previous to the
murder, he saw Kelly pass his house
with a Winchester rife. On cross-ex~
animation he swore there was not an
other man like the accused in the ell
tire Northwest, whereupon the able
counsel for the defense, Mr.. Ryan, pro-
duced one of the witnesses FOR the
prosecution, named Duggan, who was
in the locality at the time, and whose
appearance so resembled Kelly that the
Commissioner said in all his experience
he never beheld two persons more like
one another in every way.
These two were the only witnesses of
note for the prosecution. They were
met by the sworn testimony Of four OF
the most respectable witnesses who
ever adorned a witness chair, who tes-
titled to the accused spending the even
ing that the murder was committed
with them some fifty miles from the
scene of the fatality, and that he slept
with a mounted police officer the same
night.
In spite Of all this we had Commits
sioner Tor as he was fittingly described
by some, cold Grandmother'') Spencer
reporting that the evidence for the
prosecution was tenfold heavier than
on the first trial. If that was so, the
evidence on the first trial must lave
been alarmingly insignificant, indeed
Kelly, the accused, remained for a
considerable time in the Northwest
after the murder unmolested, and it
WAS not until he hat2 c,ossed the line
into the United States that Che blood
hounds Of so-called British justice, true
to the instincts of their blood thirsty
ancestors, came in pursuit, endeavored
to trample down every vestige of just
ice and fair play in our midst, and tc
drag the object Of their enmity again
into their kennels, and to consign him
as many al honest lrisllmen has often
been innocently consigned before, to an
ignominious death on the scaffold
whose blood stains, like the blood OF
Abel, cries aloud for vengeance on the
coward]y ours, who have SO often be-
smeared it with the innocent hearts
blood OF the bravest and true. For
over seven months about; fourteen OF
those wretches have been living fat and
merry in the St. James Hotel, ST.
Paul, at the expense OF their govern
ment, receiving in addition So per day
each No wonder that to- lay they
should sigh for another Dainerd to ap
pear. and on his questionable evidence
have third trial, but if they try that
on they will this time find to their sor.
row that there is limit to the pa.
tience of the honest Irishmen in ST.
Paul. The Canadian Government has
already spent $4,000 on the case
through the instrumentality of a cor
duroyed tight pants dude Of lawyer
they sent here, who knew we'll that tbs
guilty party was not Kelly. ILL.,. j,
Too much praise cannot be given tc