The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-26

ing, but ii was fixedly resolved to bring
the ringleaders to justice, and. If pos
Slble, to send the actual murderers to
the gallows. 1t was easily done in the
end. Before the actual trial was COM
menced there was hardly a man in his
cell in Kilmainham who had not
begged for an opportunity to state all
he knew, appealing to the officer who
had charge of the case: For the love
of God, sir. why don't We take my evil
dence?"
Toward the close of the investigation
the position of the Invincibles had be-
come so nearly hopeless that but one
thing was needed to make a ruin of
1t; it was the detection of James Carey
and the dock was not to escape this
worst blow of all 1t had been sup
posed that Carey was willing, If not
eager, from the outset to be the Judas
of the party. but the facts were other
wise. He was less a hero / think,
than any OF his associates in the plot.
but he had in him kind of stubborn
pride, and all the Irishman's instinct
i've horror of the role of informer He
refused to speak until he felt the rope
at his throat. 1t was the damning evil
dence of Kavanagh that fully unnerved
him. Even then ii was hard to fetch
the truth from him. The first state
Kilmainham was torn up and returned
to him. This is ancient history,
Carey" said the examiner. UP to the
last moment ii was extremely difficult
to get him to face the court, an ordeal
to which his physical nerve was as lit
tie equal as his moral.
For the unhappy creatures at the bar
the case had been q series of the most
disquieting surprises; but when they
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the storm which was raining on the
dock. surprise was swallowed up in
rage. Brady made an effort to seize
him by the neck as he passed, and
audible maledictions went up from the
pen where the betrayed men were i'm
prisoned. Carey, once he had taken
his seat, regained his nerve and never
faltered in the narrative which was to
set the final seal upon the fate Of the
friends he had abandoned.
What fate but the worst could Joe
Brady look for? When called upon to
show reason why the sentence Of
death should not be passed on him, he
sprang up in the dock, pale, but full Of
passion, his huge frame quivering, and
swore huskily that his life had been
taken from him by the lying oaths OF
informers. The death sentence Gained
him. He took II bravely and without
Dl9NauO, ana thanked MS counsel De-
fore he was led out.
e This young fellow. the real murderer.
was the most sympathetic personality
in the group. AS the man who had
struck the blows, he could not have
hoped to escape by informing, and he
was never. OF course. invited to turn
queens evidence. But / believe that,
had he been approached for that pur-
pose. he would still have kept his ton
que. believe. too. but for Brady there
would have been no Phoenix park muir
ders. Brady, In a word, was the one
man who had courage for the part
which was. feel sure, deliberately i'm
posed on him by a trick of the bal
lot.
/ must be brief over the trials that
followed Brady's. Dan Curley's, three
days later, was the second. Curley was
the handsomest of the band, a young
looking man Of 80 There were con-
siderations which made IL hard to SEN
tence him. and his wife and children
were in court. He chung to the rail OF
the dock as he stood up to receive his
doom. He was the only man who
melted the court into tears. though he
scarcely spoke a word. There were
tears at the reporters table and tears
in the eyes OF the judge when. at the
third essay. he put on the black cap.
Timothy Kelly. a slim, long-faced
youth OF l9, with a thick. pendulous
lip and a cold. blue, shifty eye, was
the third to stand in the dock. Timothy