The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-06-01 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE PHTNIX PARK MURDERS.  EXECUTION OF MICHAEL FAGAN.  Michael Fagan, the third of the men condemned for the Poo:mix-park murders, was executed on Monday morning in Kilunainhaus prison. Oa S.inday Fagan attended Holy Communion, and he retired to his bed before eleven o'clock, and slept well till a q lint or t) six on Monday morning. After arranging his toilet, the condemned man remained in his call until the arrival of the chaplain. the Rtv. C enon Kennedy, at twenty minutes to seven, when he was c entracte' t the little chapel which almost adjoins his cell. At seven o'olock mace viral celebrat el in the presence of the prisoner, the drum tyKovereo^, the sub-sheriff, and the officials of the geol. and the celebration lagded until belt-pest seven. The governor of the gaol, Mr. Widen, and the sub-sheriff, Mr. Ormsby, went to the coil of the doomel man a few minutes before eight o'clock, and informed him teat his tine e had now come. Fagan at once rose quietly, though his fact betrayed tearful valor, and without wavering, loft 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 Harwood. Here Pagan's arms were pini I, and the j gurney was renewed. The steps of the scaffold were seconded witheut any display of weakness. Here the priests repeated for the last time the prayers for the dying, and exactly as the clock struck eight the lever was withdrawn, and almost instantly Fagan was dead.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 anti placed on a rough table underneath the scaffold. The deceased was executed in the clothes which he were during his trial. Outside the gaol a strong body of police were present to preserve order. As eight o'clock approached the crowd amounted to about a hundred. Teen was no demonstration whatever either More or after the flag was hoisted, which was rue up exactly at eight o'clock amidst a heavy shower of rain. A few persons in the crowd uocovered their heads, and one men went do en on his knees and p-ayed audibly. A women who has attended all the executions ;opened her Prayer-book, and was joined by several others in recitlng the prayers for the dead. Pagan's brother James, a man about twenty-two 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 eri,f, and sobb3d bitterly, His in ther did not go out to Klinainharn, but att graded news in a chapel, in which most of the roletives of tee murder consplracy prisoners took part. S cue eensaton was caestel by a woman, said t be no relative of the prisoner, failing on her knees when the flag was hoisted, and then in the most violent manner cursin 4 the informer. A number of the people around her joined in her condemnation. Tne 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 naiad formal verdict was returned. Tee cenvict was only 21 years of age, and was a native of Kilpatrick, a village near Mullingar. He followed the trade of a smith, and came to Dahlin three years ago. He was a Fenian of the advanced type.