The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-06-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXECUTION OP MICHAEL FAO AN.  Miantel Fagan, the third of the men condemned for the Pnceuix Park murders, was executed on Monday saerning in Kilmainham Prison, Dublin. On Sunday Fagan attended Holy Communion. He retired to his bed before eleven o'clock, and slept well till a quarter to six on Monday morning. After arranging his toilet, the condemned man re=sine& in his cell until the arrival of the chaplain of the gaol, the Rev. Canon Kennedy, at twenty minutes to seven, when he was conducted to the little chapel which almost adjoins his cell. At seven o'clock mass was celebrated in the presence of the prisoner, the deputy-governor, the sub-sheriff, and the officials of the gaol, and the celebration lasted until , after half-past seven. Outside the gaol at that hour about a score of persons had assembled. A strong body of police were present to preserve order, but their duties wero a sinecure. As eight o'olockapproaclied the crowd amounted to about a hundred. They were perfectly quiet, and preserved almost unbroken silence. There was no demonstration whatever either before or after the flag was hoisted, which was run up exactly at eight o'clock, amidst a heavy shower of rain. A few persons in the crowd uncovered their heads, and one man went down on his knees and prayed audibly. A woman who has attended all the executions opened her , prayer-brook, and was joined by several others in reciting the prayers for the dead. The governor of the gaol, Mr. Gildea, and the sub-sheriff, Mr. Ormsby, went to the cell of the doomed man a few minutes before eight o'clock, and informed him that his time had now come. Fagan at once rose quietly, though his face betrayed fearful pallor,and without wavering left the cell with, the two officers. The party, joined by the two clergymen, several warders, and Dr. Carte, walked slowly in the direction of the scaffold, a few yards from which they were met by Marwood. Here Fagan's arms were pinioned, and the journey was renewed. The seeps of the scaffold were ascended without any display of weakness. Here the iriests repeated for the last time the prayers for the dying, and exactly as the clock struck eight the lever was withdrawn, and almost instantly Fagan was dead. The body hung from the beam for the usual hour, and was then cut down and placed on a rough table underneath the scaffold. The deceased was executed in the clothes which he wore during his trial. Fagan's brother James, a man about 24 years of age, and who has been in Dublin during the last week, was among the crowd. On being addressed by one of the crowd he was overcome with grief and sobbed bitterly. His mother did not go out to Kilmainham, but attended mass in a chapel, in which most of the relatives of the murder conspiracy prisoners took part. Some sensation was caused by a woman, said to be no relative of the prisoner, falling on her knees when the flag was hoisted, and then in the most violent manner cursing the informer Carey. A number of the persons around her joined in her condemnation. The condemned man volunteered no statement. At half-past nine o'clock the inquest was opened in one of the rooms of the Informing Department before Dr. Harty, county coroner, and the usual formal verdict was returned. The convict was only twenty-four years of age, and was a native of Kilpatrick, a village near Mullingar. He followed the trade of a smith, and came to Dublin three years ago. He was a Fenian of the advanced type, one of O'Donovan Rossa's disciples.