The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-11
THINK I'LL OF LYNCHEHAUN
UNITED FRESHMAN OF DUBLIN DE-
sCRIBEs HIS CRIME.
Maude Come McBride's Paper Says
He Is Anything but Irish
Patriot-Terrible Assault.

In an article which appeared in the Unit
ed Irishman, published in Dublin. Ireland,
on the 18th of last month. the editor says
that Ii is with great regret that he read
in the columns of the Boston Pilot, noted
Irish paper of this country. the eulogistic
articles pertaining to James Lynchehaun,
the fugitive from Ireland, whom the Brit
ish government is now seeking to have
returned to serve out his sentence of life
| Imprisonment for a murderous assault
Mrs. mcdonnell, of Achill Island, in 1894.
The editorial states that the Boston Pilot
and the people of this country have been
misinformed about what Lynchehaun really
Is and of the deed for which he was SEN
| fenced.
Instead of being a prosecuted patriot"
| the Irish paper says, "he is a vile black
| guard, for whom the gallows would have
| been too good" The article says in sub
| stance that he was at one time member
of the British police force and subsequently
| bailiff to Mrs. MacDonnell. In this capac-
ity he was able to own two houses, in one
! of which he kept grocery. Owing to his
propensity to acquire chattels he was dis
! charged by Mrs. mcdonnell. On the night
of Oct g. 1894. seeking revenge, Lynchehaun
set fire TO the stables of his former en-
| ployer, and when she came TO the window,
asked for the keys to let the horses out.
! When she brought the keys he released the
horses and then seized Mrs. mcdonnell and
attempted to strange her. Not succeeding
| in this, he tried to hurl her into the flames,
when the appearance of a woman kept him
| from executing his inhuman deed. Not
baffled by this, Lynchehaun followed the
poor old lady and knocked her TO the
| ground with a large stone and kicked and
| bit her, leaving her for dead. The report
| of DR.. Crowley, which appear ed in a Dublin
| newspaper in July, 1880, shows the injuries
! which Mrs. MacDonnell suffered at the
| hands OF Lyncnehaun. The report is as
| follows:
MRS. M'DoNELLS INJURIES.
| ION her head there were three large
| wounds and under her right eye there was
| a deep wound. The nasal cartilage was
| bitten off and the bone exposed. a piece
was bitten out of her upper lip. The larynx
| was congested, as if by throttling, there
| being marks OF forefinger and thumb upon
| it. Her chest was covered with Commissions
| and there was a large confusion over the
| right side. The lower part of the body
| had been shockingly lacerated and the right
| leg crushed. The right eye had been
crushed out and destroyed. piece OF
| whinbush was taken out of ner body.
| After the crime was committed, so the
editorial goes on TO say, Lynchehaun In
| formed the police that two men, Kelly and
John Gallagher, were the guilty parties.
These men were poor men and would nave
been hanged, in all probability, had not
| Mrs. MacDonnell regained consciousness
and identified the would-be murderer. He
| was arrested, tried and sentenced to penal
servitude for life on July IL, 1895.
The article closes by saying that the
people of ireland have no sympathy what,
| every mans hand would have been
stretched out to seize him, for in the Irish
| nature there is sympathy with crime.
But in an Ireland ruled by power which
has dubbed and treated as criminal the
| patriot. where the fugitive from the pre-
Yailing law has been more often the man
| who had given up all for his country, than
the man who had inflicted injury upon it
there will, so long that power endures,
remain fixed in the peoples mind the idea
that TO betray a man on the run-be he
what he may-iS infamy.
ESCAPED FROM PRISON.
Lynchehaun. knowing that the Irish peo-
pie would not betray him, escaped from
prison, crossed Ireland and sailed to this
country. 1t is remarkable fact that, even
though the British government employs r.
600 policemen besides large corps of spies
and detectives in Ireland. Lynchehaun was
able to elude them all and come to Amer
lea
The article in the Dublin paper was writ
ten with the purpose of correctly informing
the Boston Pilot of the crime for which
| Lynchehaun stands convicted. and desire
is expressed that no honest Irishman will
financially aid Lynchehaun and that no
person shall again insult Irish patriotism
by referring TO him as "a prosecuted pa
triot''
The United Irishman. in which the article
appeared. is operated by stock company
of which Maude Come Mcbride is direc-
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