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

rey who occupied a seat on the car were
all laid hold of. They were lodged
In Kilmainham, and kept there under
the crimes act until the month OF Sep
TENDER, when, as the legal evidence
was still to be procured, they were lib
Grated
1t was six months since the muir
ders. and the belief was that the police
were baffied and had abandoned the
case. IL was forgotten that Ireland
was under a reign of terror. Long be-
fore the six men first arrested were let
out, to be Swallowed by the police till
they were wanted again, their parts
In the crime were known, and every
man who was afterward placed in the
dock was already under watch. only
the proofs necessary to a public trial
were lacking during all these tedious
months. No one would risk the chances
of an open testimony. At every stage
throughout the inquiry 1t was this that
gave check to the police.
But the Invincibles played unwit-
tingly into the hands of their enemy
They made two foolish moves in No
vember. The first OF these was Pat
Delaney's attempt on Judge Lawson.
Delaney made a feint of shooting the
judge as he was entering the Kildare
Street club, and was at once arrested.
At about he same time Mr.. Field, fore
man of the common jury which had re-
Gently brought in a verdict Of guilty
against a man charged with murder,
was attacked on the steps of his house.
The arrests which followed were i'm
portant. Certain evidence was drawn
from Delaney which had its bearing on
the larger case, and further inquiry
under the crimes act was commenced
in the first week of December
The private investigation under the
crimes act occupied the whole of De-
cember and the first part of January
Then the grand coup was made.
Twenty-six Invincibles were seized one
night. under warrant. in various parts
of Dublin, and placed in the dock of
the Inns of the Quay police court on
Jan. 10, 1888. Up to this point the
course Of justice had been hidden, but
the appearance of these &c men I'm the
dock was a startling and effective an
swer to the charge of failure that had
been laid against the police.
For a time the Gagged Invincibies
maintained a front which was not
merely cool, but defiant. Some of the
group displayed a contemptuous. and
others a lively interest i'm the proceed
ings against them. Brady. who occu-
pied a front corner of the dock, was al
ways simultaneously on the alert and
was obliglngly brisk in signaling the
messenger OF one of the Dublin dailies,
when the reporter had his copy"
ready. IL was curious to observe, how
ever. with what care the prisoners
counted their numbers when they were
placed in the dock in the morning
moved by the dread of an informer's
betrayal-a fear that is ever in the
heart of a conspirator.
one morning the count fell short
The oonspirators were fewer by. one
comrade than they had been on the
previous day. While they were still in
the pains of suspense as TO the cause
of his absence from the dock he was
led I'm by another door, and shame
faced and quaking. mounted TO the
chair on the witness table. Il was
Bob Farrell. the first Of the inform
ers
But for an unphrased murmur the
dock was dumb. and il never joked
again.
One informer. however, was not
enough, and Kavanagh, a week or two
later. took Farrel's place on the table.
With Kavanagh's translation from the
dock 10 the witness table. the case
against the prisoners began to be mar
rowed TO its final issue. IL was not I'M
I'll Kavanagh turned queens evidence
that they were able 10 BE- charged I'm
set terms with the murders. "Conspir-
ing TO murder certain government Off
cials and others" was the charge form
ulated against them when first placed