The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-06-17
The PHOENIX PARK ASSASSlNATIoNS
The Men Released After Serving
Sixteen Years.
A HISTORY OF THE CRIME REPEATED
Sad Fate of the Englishman was
Widely Lamented.

widely Lamented.
The following account OF the Phoenix
Park tragedy is given by "Owen Roe,"
the Dublin special correspondent of
the Chicago Chronicle:
The release OF Joseph Mullett, Lau-
renee Hanlon and Fitztarris, nicknamed
"Skin the Goat" from Maryborough
prison on the queens birthday recalls
enc OF the most bloody and sensational
tragedies OF modern years and some de-
tails OF the history OF the crime may
prove interesting. While neither OF
these three were Immediately connected
with the Phoenix park murders, they
were adiudged to be participants in the
Invincible conspiracy which led to the
killing OF Cavendish and Burke. The
arrests and trials which followed the
crime resulted in six men being SEN
fenced to death, three sentenced to penal
scrvitude for life, five to penal servitude
for ten years and one for five years. The
six men found guilty OF the capital
charge were Joe Brady, Dan Curley,
Michael Pagan, Edward Cafrey, Tim
Kelly and Patrick Delaney. The first
five were executed in Kilmainham Jail
OIL various dates between May ID. 1883,
when Brady was hanged, and the 9th
OF the following month, when Kelly was
executed. Delaney's sentence was
changed to one of penal servitude for
life, and six years later, after the ap-
peared as witness before the Times
forgeries commission, for the trial of
Parnell, he was released by the authori-
ties and secretly sent abroad. OF the
others arrested and convicted, outside
OF those executed, the following par
ticulars are briefed from one of the pa
pers here:
Of the ten men sentenced to penal
servitude for life Fitzharris was found
guilty OF helping the Phoenix park mur-
derers to escape and Mullett and Han
lon were convicted of being concerned
in an attempt to murder man named
Denis ]. Field. These are the three
who have now been released after spend
ing sixteen years in prison. The others
mentioned above were found guilty OF
being engaged in conspiracy and SEN
fenced to ten years penal servitude.
Most of the prisoners mentioned, in
Guiding James Carey and several others,
who afterward gave evidence for the
crown. were arrested in raid by the
police on the night of January IL, 1883.
Alter prolonged investigation and the
unexpected production OF Carey and
other invincibles as approvcrs, the prs-
oners were finally placed on trial.
at was tine," says the Dublin Inde-
pendent, "of great public excitement,
particularly in Great Britain, and tele-
grams OF alleged dynamite conspiracies
were being published from all quarters.
The activity of the police was by no
means confined to dealing with the in
vincible movement in Dublin, but was
i'll England taking the form of prose-
cutions against DR.. Gallagher, Flana-
gan and others, while in ireland there
were numerous cases in course of being
worked up by the authorities, the most
remarkable being that of Joe Poole,
who was acquitted of the charge Of
shooting Constable Cox in Middle Abb
bey street, left the courthouse smiling,
was rearrested as he stepped into Green
street on the charge of numbering a
man named Kenny in Seville place, and
was afterward executed in Richmond
prison. Richmond prison has since
been converted into military barrack,
and some time ago while foundations
were being dug for new wall the coffin
containing the remains of Poole, that
had been buried within the precincts of
the jail, was accidentally unearthed~
"It was about this time also that the
famous Simeoni circular was addressed
from the Sacred college to the Irish
bishops prohibiting them from allowing
their priests to take any part in the COL
lection Of money for the Paranell ma
tional tribute. This was in May and
the tribute then amounted to 10000. The
document, the issue of which had been
procured by means of English influence
at Rome, with Sir George Errington as
excited intense indignation
throughout the country. AS a conse-
quence, subscriptions began to pour in
faster than ever, and when the fund
was closed some 81 months later txhe net
amount available for presentation to the
leader of the Irish party, who had spent