Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-01-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  THE CONSPIRACY CAFE.  A Dublin correspondent writes—lt has been decided to hold the adjourned enquiry into the alleged conspiracy to murder at Kilmainhain Court, which adjoins the gaol where the prisoners are kept. This will obviate the necessity of bringing the twenty prisoners down to the , Police Courts, a proceeding which, notwithstanding all the precautions adopted, was believed to be attended with considerable risk and a great deal of inconvenience. Dr. Webb, Q.C., and Mr Richard Adams, who defended Delaney at Green-street when tried for the attack on Judge Lawson, have been retruned for the deism,: of some of the prisoners. The house of Far:ell, the informer, is guarded by policemea in coi.sequence of threats of violence towards his mother and sisters. Farrell himself remains in custody. Mr Carey, Town Conncillor, who is a builder, has in hand a contract with the Guardians of the South Dublin Union, and on Thursday a sum of £lOO cn account was voted to him. The informer to be produced on Saturday will give some astonishing details respecting the Assassination Committee. In the course of the enquiry some important details relating to the Phoenix Park tragedy will be deposed to. Jt is stated that the father of Patrick Farrell has been dismissed from his employment, and that , an attempt is now being made to Boycott his brothers and sisters. On Wednesday the public-house kept by Mrs Moran, Cork Hill, which has been recently searched for suspicions characters, was visited by the police and detectives. This public-house is exactly opposite the front gate of Dublin Castle. The police strictly forbade the landlady to allow persons to take up positions at the windows of her house and remain there watching the movements of the persons passing to and from the Detective Department, Exchange. court, only a few yards off. It is alleged that , the Assassination Committee have an organized , police system of their own, and that they set , men specially to %vs.-a the regular detectives, . and to note those with whom they have coinmunication. . . . .  The Press Aasociati•sn's special correspondent in Dublin, telegraphire on Thursday evening, says—Some important and remarkable evidence has been obtained within the last couple of months regarding the perpetrators of some of the most sanguinary outrages that have been committed during the past two years in the West of Ireland. The fact that two men are awaiting their trial in Galway Gaol for the murder of a bog bailiff named Connors, on the estate of Lord Thinsandle, is already known; but it is also a fact that the murders of Mr Blake and his servant Thady Flynn, near Loughrea, last year, Mr Bourke and Corporal Wallace at Ra.hassane, will shortly engage the attention of a judicial tribunal. A man who is believed to have been engaged in the first of these two murders, and who is now in America, is being sought for, and if he is found, as there is every reason to believe he will, it is expected that he will turn Queen's evidence, and disclose the names of his associates. During is recent period named a number of Irish detectives, acting on information collected by the Royal Irish Con• stabulary, have been pursuing a close and vigorous enquiry in the vicinity of the scenes of these murders, and it is etated that they are in possession of information which, it is hoped, will enable them to lay their hands upon the whole of the members of the organisations which prompted those frightful crimes and others of lesser magnitude in that district. The extreme punish inent.w hich has been visited recently on the porpotro,Lors of certain murders has evidently caused something like s panic among the local outrage organizations, some of the members of which, by suddenly leaving the country, or taking some other extraordinary steps, have drawn upon themselves the notice of those who have been watching for nearly a year for a clue to the discovery of the persons who have blackened the history of the country within the past eighteen months or two years. In connection with these discoveries by the police, it is also stated on good authority that the murderers of Lord Mountmorres are in view, and that the next mouth or two will witness tho indictment of several of the men who have been engaged in these crimes, and who have hitherto baffled the skill of the police.