The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-30
PLAYED BY IMPORTERS,
TESTIMONY OF IMPORTANCE IN
 MANY FAMOUS TRIALS.


 Carefully Weighed by the Court-As
 to the ProverbiaI Honor Among
 Thieves.
 A barrister once remarked, in the course of some proceedings at the Gen. tral Criminal Court. to MT. Baron Bramwell: There is honor among thieves. my Lord
 The Baron looked at him severely.
 ''There is gold in sea water" he said, '.but it cannot be extracted in profitable quantities. Go on. sir"
 T have never myself found honor among. thieves in sufficient quantity to prevent their victimizing their as- sociates when the slightest advantage was to be gained,'' said MT. Montagu Williams; and the records of Scotland Yard afford starting evidence to the fact, says London Answers.
 Sooner or later the criminals who work together are betrayed by one of the gang. Peace, the burglar and mur- derer, declared that he ascribed his long immunity from capture to the fact that he never had a partner and never confided in any one.
 .'No one could inform against me" he explained. T took care never. to give any one the chance. know too we'll how a man comes off who has rope around his neck and friend at 1e Jn if esnyS day."
 There have been innumerable in stances of the fact. The informer has played remarkable part in famous trials.
 The most infamous informer of modern times that court of justice has listened to giving evidence against his associates was the notorious James Carey the planner Of the Phoenix Park murders, in 1882. when Lord Frederick Cayendish and MT. Burke fell beneath the daggers of a band of assassins- the "Invincibles," organized by Carey himself.
 Though the murder took place in broad daylight in a public park, and at a spot even within sight of the vice. regal lodge, the murderers succeeded in escaping unobserved in trap that was waiting for them, driven by trusty confederate known as Skin the Goat" Some months later the perpetrators were arrested and lodged in prison on suspicion of various offences, and Carey found fimself in prison with them. But the evidence to bring the murder home to the guilty men was weak, and the police adopted a little ruse to in- duce Carey to turn informer. He was led to believe that in the cell next to him one of the most active of the gang was confined, and as Casey sat solitary and breeding in his cell he heard one day large number of visitors to his reighbors. There seemed to be a vast amount of hustle and excitement next door, and Carey could only conclude that it was occasioned by one thing. His neighbor must be giving informa- tion. >.E ..e :.
 The idea goaded Carey to a frenzy of fear. He resolved to tell al he knew himself, and so turned infornler. The only person in the next cell to him was a police officer, and the visitors to him, who, in Carey's affrighted ears, seemed Magistrates and Government officials, were really detectives playing part. Carey sent five of his associates to the gallows, two to penal servitude for life, and others to various terms of in- Ixisonment.
 , Carey, having done this work, was smuggled out of the country by the police, and fled for safety abroad. He was tracked and shot by ODonnell, as he was seated in cabin of the Melrose steamer at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, four months later.
 Few people who were in the Central Criminal Court on May 21, 1896, when the two scoundrels, Milsom and Fowler, stood in the dock, charged with the murder of MT. Smith at Muswell Hill, will ever forget the scene that occurred when Fowler tried to strangle Milsom, on discoving that he had sought to save his own neck by giving the police information respecting his companion's part in the crime
 When the two men were placed in the dock, a suspicion of what has occurred seemed to penetrate the brain of the great hulking brute Fowler, as he ob- served how Milsom white faced and trembling, shrank away from him and sought refuge in the furthest corner of the dock To the terror which filled Nilsson with regard to the result of the trial was now added the awful dread that Fowler might suddenly throw himself upon him and kill him before the warders or police could interfere. He begged his custodians, in trembling whispers, to put more men between them. They did not know what Fow- Ter was like, he declared.
 Milsom's information did him no good, and, shaking with fear, he crouched in the dock, seemingly half senseless. At a moment when the at- tention of the warders and police were distracted Fowler seized his oppor- unity, and dashing away those who stood between he threw himself, with a cry like that of wild beast, on his &C., icon1pliee the informer.
 It took half dozen officers tear him awsy and to handcuff him. The dock side was smashed to splinters. When the jury brought in their verdict of Guilty and the Judge passed the sentence of death, Milsom was yet al- most breathless. So intense was the hatred for Nilsson inspired in Fowler by what he had done that even when Aboyr mat on the ScaffoId officers had