Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-28
THEY WERE TURNED BAcK. /
FITZHARRIs AND MULLETT, THE
IRISH INVINCIBLES, WILL BE
ORDERED DEPORTED.
EXAMINATION BY AUTHORITIES
RESULTS IN THE DETERMINATION
TO EXCLUDE THEM.


in Dublin, in 1872, and Served
Seventeen Years-The Result of
the Enquiry Yesterday at Ellis
Island, New York Harbor.
NEW YORK, May 27.-James Fitz-
harris, alias Skin the Goat and JOS
eph Mullett, the Irish 1avlIcibles, who
were recently released from prison in
Ireland, where they were sentencl for
completely in the Phoenix Park muir
ders of 1882, were to-day ordered ex
e.nheu hy the board =. src: -; INQUIRY
at the immigration station and ordered
deportei
The exclusion was made under the
Interpretation of the law which for
bids any one being admitted to this
country who has been adjudged guilty
of felony, crime, infamous crime cr
misdemeanor involving moral turpti-
tude."
The two men were recently pardoned
by Earl Cadogan, Lord Lietenant of
Ireland, from a sentence of life i'm
prisonment and reached this city
among the steerage passengers on the
Lucania on Saturday last.
After a conference with Commission
er Fitchie the men were ordered back
to Ellis Island to await the action of
the board of special inquiry. This
board was composed of VIM. Weihe,
chairman; H. H Molter. James "A.
Toner and Major Charles S. Sensey.
The two men were taken before the
board on Ellis Island this morning.
The inquisition was secret. The only
one at the barge office to meet the two
men and who showed any interest in
their behalf was Rocky Mountain"
O'Brien.
After the meeting of the board it
was learned that Fitzharris was the
first of the two examined by the mem
bers. He admitted he had served near
ly seventeen years in prison. After be-
ing asked the usual questions as to
his age, nativity and residence, Fitz-
harris was asked of what crime he
had been convicted and answered:
Treason"
He was then questioned as TO this
charge and he told the board that he
had been arrested about nine months
after the famous Phoenix Park MUIR
ders, in company with twentythree
others. These twenty-three were ac-
cused of having been accessories after
the fact, while Fitzharris was charged
with having been an accessory before
the fact Three months later he was
brought to trial, with others of the ac-
to be hanged and Fitzharris was SEN
fenced to penal servitude for life.
While telling his story to the board,
FitzharriS declared that at the time
of his trial he was offered $4,000 by
the English government if he would
turn informer against the other mem
bers of the band. This he refused to
do, and of his life sentence he served
about seventeen years in the Mount
JOY, Chatham, Down Patrick and
Marybone prisons. Eight months ago
he was pardoned.
Fitzharris said that he and Mullett
had about $25 between them when
they reached this port.
Fitzharris asserted that while he was
on British soil he was compelled to re-
port to the police every month as to his
doings and whereabouts.
Il came to this country" he added,
because I want a chance to rest and
reeuperate. | wanted to stay here
about three months and then go back
to my family"
Mullett Indignantly refused to an
swer any of the questions put to him
by the board. He declared he was not
being accorded proper treatment by
the government His examination last
ed only a short time as he would not
respond to questions. The men were
then sent to the excluded pen"
The case will probably be appealed
to the authorities at Washington and
if not Fitzharris and Mullett will leave
this port on Saturday next on the Luz
cania