The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-04-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PWENIX PARK MURDERS.  FRESH DISOLORURES.  TWENTY-TWO ATTEMPTS ON MR FORSTER.  DUBLIN, Monday. At half-past ten o'clock Daniel Curley, the man alleged to have been captain of the assassinations in the Park on the 6th of May, was brought to Court from Kilmainham under an escort of Dragoon s and mounted police. The wardens ritraightway ushered the prisoner into the dock. In the 83.11 I e cavalcadew ere th e six informers —James and Peter Carey, Myles Kavanagh, Laurie, Farrell, and Smith. An officers' guard -occupied the Court-house, in addition La the force of police. At eleven o'clock Judge O'Brien entered the Court, looking melancholy and severe. Ten minutes elapsed before there was the least attempt to start the proceedings. Mr Ormsby, County Sub-Sheriff, was the first to break the silence by asking Mr Bolton, Crown Solicitor, would the Grand Jury be required. Mr Bolton promised to see, and he retired from the Court. Then Mr James Murphy, turning to the Clerk of the Crown, directed- that the special jury panel should be called. Judge O'Brien, stooping forward over the bench, said if the jurors were to be called from the box containing the names of the special jurors both on the county and city panel the prisoner must be 'nit forward. Mr Murphy concurred in that being the proper course. Daniel Curley then; came timidly to the front, anxious-looking, if not positively dejected. He is a fine stalwart fellow, 35 years of age, and sft. Sin, in height. His face is of a distinctly Grecian type, large intellectual forehead, aquiline nose, and small firm mouth, while the eyes are dark and deep set, expressive at once of power and cunning. His dark hair is parted in the centre, and brushed carefully back off the temples, and be wears a moustache and a full beard. Be is attired in a brownish tweed, with a spotted white shirt and pocket handerchief, and looks -superior to his station in life—that of la carpenter. Standing with his hands clasped 'on the bar of the dock, he seemed rather deteriorated in physique from that which he presented at the Kilmainham enquiry. Dr. Webb and Mr Richard Adams, instructed by Mr Gerald Byrne, sat at the table with the deposition before them to undertake the defence of the prisoner.' The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr James Murphy, Q.C., and Mr Peter O'Brien, Q.C., were in attendance. Without any intimation being given in reference to the Grand Jury, the panel of special jurors to try the prisoner was called on fines of £100; several were lined, and some were excused. Before empanelling the jury, Mr Webb, Q.C., claimed for his order that the Judge could not create a precedent in assigning him to defend the prisoners. As counsel for the Queen he VI Soli not liable to be assigned. He would, however, defend Curley, but he did not think any man living could go through the ordeal of defending eleven men in succession on trial for their lives, and therefore at the close of the present trial he asked to be released from the obligation imposed upon him. The Judge promised to consider the question. Mr Adams declined to say anything for the present, intimating, however, that some of the other prisoners had retained different solicitors and counsel. To prevent any excuse for delay, the AttorneyGeneral said the Crown would proceed with the trial of Timothy Kelly, who is represented by' Mr Walshe, solicitor. Daniel Curley was then I formally indicted, and informed that he had a I right to challenge twenty jurors peremptorily, I and as many more as he could show cause for. He was advised to " look to his challenges," Dr. Webb had no exception to any of the jurors who served on the trial of Brady being empannelled, and without waiting for a response from the Jed; the Attorney.Oeneral said such jurors - .  temperance plage, , _ege, .. ~ —....... salU such juie_ the blue ribbon. would not be asked to serve OD this trial.