The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-06

ed and tested evidence was that wrung
slowly and painfully from the informers
at the trials in April and May, 1883. This
evidence established varying degrees of
guilt against eighteen different persons,
including four who had fed the country.
Three informers were allowed to go free.
Here we may pause to note the aston
ishing circumstance that none Of those
whose encks were in danger sought to es-
cape. France refused to deliver one of
the conspirators. Frank Byrne, and the
United States refused to deliver John
Walsh. Sheridan and lyman, who were
also wanted by the British government.
But all of the actual participants in the
affair remained In Dublin where the hand
of justice could reach them in an hour,
and still lthey escaped arrest until No
vember. when Pat Delaney, one of the
jaunting-car four. made an attempt to
shoot Judge Lawson. and this an at
tempt to shoot Mr.. Field, the foreman of
the grand jury, put the authorities on
the track Of the conspiracy. Arrest and
the associations Of the suspected men
were inquired into and followed up, and
finally In January the government felt
secure in arresting twenty-six men and
charging them with the murder.
Even then there would have been no
hope Of conviction, except through the
one reliance OF England against all Irish
uprisings-the informer.
As the days and the months passed
on suspicion bega to haunt the minds of
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 a 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 GAL
lows 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: "a
Sentence of death was passed on Joseph
Brady. Tim Kelly, Dan curley. Tom CAT
fiery, Mike Pagan and Pat Delaney.
The sentence of Delaney was commut-
cd to penal servitude for life and subse-
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turned informer on Dan Delaney, a
brother of Pat; on James Mullett. the
chairman of the Organization and on Nc
Caffery. O'Brien and Moloney.
The life sentences, which have now all
been remitted. were those Of Joseph Null
lett. ole Hanlon and F1tzharris.
No story of the Phoegix Park tragedy
would be complete without the epilogue
Of the doom of Carey, the informer, an
event WHICH stirred Ireland scarcely less
deeply than the killing of Cavendish and
Burke.
The government did Ns best to save
him from the vengeance opanly threat
ened against him. He was kept safely
in Jail, was safely and secretly spirited
away to England. and as Australia
would have none of him, he was secretly
and safely shipped with his wife and
seven children from London on the
night of July L on board the Kinfauns
Castle bound for Cape Town.
The Irish banshee goes not over seas.
but Carey's banshee must have put an
extra croak in her laugh as she told her
weird sisters that Carey had sailed on
the same ship with a passenger from
America registered as Mcdonald.
His real name was O'Donnell: he was
one OF the ''Invincibles:" he made Car
ey's acquaintance, on the trip to Cape
Town. and from Cape Town took the
same vessel to Natal.
On the voyage the informer, dougtless
suffering from that impulse of self-be-
trayal which seems to be part of the
criminal instinct. became confidential.
O'DonneH had had his suspicious as to
the identity CT his fellow passenger. 1t
was not difficult matter TO verify them.
revealed himself 10 Carey drew his re-
vclver and on the deck OF the ship shot
the informer dead in the presence of his
family.
The crime and trial of O'Donneli Gre
ated hardly less excitement than the
crime out of which 1t grew. At his trial
every effort was made to protect and de-
fend him, but there was no escape for
him. and he paid the death penalty.
which he must have known was inevita-
BILE. JOHN A. DILLON