Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-05-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE 'I RAGEDY IN IRELAND. IMPORTANT CLUE.  T o brassfitters, named Macree and Fry, in the employment of the Southern Railway at Inchicore, have made an important statement to the police. They say they were actual witnesses of the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke. According to their narrative it appears that on Saturday evening they had gone up to the Park from Inchecore on bicycles. When they reached the Phcenix column they turned towards town, and were going in that direction, when they saw close to them Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke. The attention of Macree and Fry was elmost wholly concentrated on their bicycles, but suddenly they observed two men attack the Ctaief Secretary and Under Secretary, while not far distant were two other men. They saw one man raise what appeared to be a large knife and plunge it into the breast of Lord Cavendish, who had gone out on the roadway from off the pathway, after he had, as is conjectured, received a stroke. They heard his lordship exclaim to his assailant, " Oh, you villain," and at the same moment the knife was thrust into his breast. Lord Cavendish fell almost °oder the bicycle, which was going unsteady, and which he touched in falling. The rider was dreadfully frightened, and made all possible speed to get away. It is stated that his companion, who was following it some yards distant behind, when he saw what was being done, was about to stop his bicycle and go to the assistance of the Cuief Secretary, but the same murderer who had stabbed his lordship, advanced towards him, holding the blood-stained knife uplifted, and made a dash at him. The bioycle rider, terrified by what be had seen, and the attack, made all 1 possible haste to fellow his comrsde. leaving the unfortunate nobleman to his melancholy 'fate ; hut before be had gone far, he says, he noticed that one of the assassins went back to the prostrate form of tbe Chief Secretary and again buried his knife in the body. Macree and Fry appeared to have had their attention so strongly attracted to what was occurring on the road that they did not observe the assassination of Mr Burke, which took place on the pathway, and their sole desire stems to have been to get rkway from the appalling scene as soon as possible, and to secure their own safety. They also state that at a distance of some twenty or thirty feetfrom wherethe murders were being perpetrated they observed a hackney car standing on the left hand aide of the road, the driver seated in the dickey, and the horse being turned towards the city. The car was empty. They did not see it start.  DunuN, Friday afternoon. The man Wrangle, who made the statement at Southport a few days ago to the effect that he had been offered £lOO to assist in the assassinaton of Lord Cavehdish and Mr Burke, but whose statement was discredited by the police, has made certain other disclosures, which are considered so important that he was brought to Dublin this morning. Wrangle was not in custody, but was accompanied to Dublin by a plain-clothes officer of the Southport police. It is stated that he refused to give any information to the ' authorities until assured that he would be rewarded in the event of his te‘timony leading to the conviction of the assassins. Great hopea are entertained here that arrests will follow the information given to the police today by Wrangle, who throughout the afternoon was closeted in the Detective Office in the Castle-yard with Chief Detective Superintendent Wallon and the other officers who have the case in charge. He still adheres to his former statements as to the offer made him to assist in the murder, and some reliance is placed on his utterance since his admission that he is a member of the Fenian Society has been. subtantiated by the police. Wrangle, further, is a prominent member of the Land League in Roscommon. It has not been I stated what steps the police propose to I take in consequences of Wrangle's evidence.