The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-16

Brady and Kelly. Lord Frederick
Cavendsh might have been let go un-
hurt, but his manly instinct prompted
him to resist, if it was only with his
umbrella, and knife thrust in his
heart ended his life.
Not less sudden than the deed was the
flight and escape. Within a minute
after the murder every one OF the
eleven had disappeared as completely as
if the earth had swallowed them up.
Carey and Smith turned and went away
as soon as the signal was given, Fitz-
harris started back with his cab before
blow was struck. The four jumped
back on the car, Kavanaugh whipped
up his little.red mare and kept her at
full speed on a race around the city OF
Dublin, driving out by Chapelizad,
keeping outside of the city until he re-
entered by the south side. He might
as we'll have driven straight home. No
one thought his carload was anything
more than an ordinary drunken Satur-
day frolic.
From window of the viceregal lodge
Earl Spencer saw in the distance what
he thought was scuffle and spoke of it.
One person who witnessed the crime
| from nearer at hand was so overcome
by it that he was unable to identity the
perpetrators. A telegraph clerk riding
by on his wheel saw the bodies and re-
ported to the police, and then the news
spread.
The government acted with prompt
ness and vigor. A reward of 10000
for the arrest of the assassins and
fl 900 for any information about them
was offered, and all the detective re-
sources of England and ireland alike
were set to work, but all in vain. No
enemy OF Ireland was in the secret and
no friend of Ireland would betray it.
Suspicious were rife-and accurate
and arrests were made, but in the alb
sence of evidence the suspects had to be
released.
How many were concerned in the
plot is not known, and now can never
be known. All kinds Of claims and
statements have been made, but the
only sifted and tested evidence was that
wrung slowly and painfully from the in
formers at the trials in April and May,
1888. This evidence established vary
ing degrees of guilt against eighteen
different persons, incl.using four who
had fed the country Three informers
were allowed to go free.
Here we may pause to note the as
tonishing circumstance that none of
those whose necks we're in danger
sought to escape France refused to de-
liver one Of the conspirators, Frank
Byrne, and the United States refused to
deliver John Walsh. Sheridan and Ty-
nan, who were also wanted by the Brit
ish government.
But all the actual participants in the
affair remained in Dublin, where the
hand Of justice could reach them in an
hour, and still they escaped arrest until
November, when Pat Delaney, one OF
the jaunting-car four, made an attempt
to shoot Judge Lawson, and this and All
attempt to shoot Mr.. Field, the fore
man OF the grand jury, put the author
tiles on the track OF the conspiracy.
Arrest and detention was easy under the
crimes act, the associations of the sus-
pected men were inquired into and fol-
lowed UP, and finally in January the
government felt secure in arresting
twenty-six men and charging them witt,
the murder.
Even then there would have been no
hope of conviction, except through the
one reliance of England against all Irisl,
uprisings-the informcr
AS the days and the months passed on
suspicion began to haunt the minds oi
the weaklings and cowardice changed
their hearts to jelly The government
found its first witness in one Farrell
who turned Queens evidence, though
his neck was in no danger.
Weakened by his detection Michael
Kavanaugh, the driver OF the jaunting-
car, next turned on his associates and
became witness against them. The
last and most odious of the informers
was James Carey, who had given the
signal which sent Cavendish and Burke
to death and who in his craven fear OF
the gallows pronounced on himself a
doom as certain as any the judge could
have given.
The trials, based on the information
thus obtained, were held in April and
May. The harvest of the assize was as
follows:
Sentence Of death was passed on Jo-
seph Brady, Tim Kelly, Dan Curlcy,
Tom Caffrey, Mike Pagan and Pat De-
laney.
The sentence OF Delaney was COM
muted to penal scrvitude for life and
subsequently reduced to ten years; he
had turned informcr. Sentences OF ten
years were imposed on Dan Delaney, a
brother of Pat; on James Mullct, the
chairman OF the organization, and on
McCaffrey, O'Bricn and Moloney.