Widnes Examiner. — 1883-02-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LOCAL BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.  THE STATE OF IRELAND. THE CONSPIRACY TO MURDER DUBLIN OFFICIALS. Further extraordinary disclosures were made on Saturday in connection with the alleged conspiracy to murder Government officials in Dublin, the proceedings taking place in Kilmainham Courthouse. As the evidence adduced in the first stage of the proceedings related exclusively to the attempted assassination of Mr. Field, only five prisoners were put forward on the opening of the case. They were Joseph Brady, John Dwyer. Timothy Kelly, Joseph Hanlon, and Michael Kavanagh. The last named had been arrested since the previous hearing of the case, and, together with his four fellow-prisoners, was now charged with conspiracy to murder, and "in pursuance of that conspiracy, that on the 27th of November, they did feloniously assault Denis Field with intent to murder him." Mr. Murphy, Q.C., and Mr. Peter O'Brien Q.C., prosecuted. The first witness called was a young woman named Alice Carroll, who gave her evidence in the clearest manner. Under the severe cross-examination to which she was subjected, she maintained perfect selfpossession. She deposed that on the evening of the 27th of November she was going down Hardwicke-street soon after six o'clock, when she saw a car, with three passengers and a driver, stop at the corner. The men got down and she recognised two of them as the prisoners Brady and Kelly. She saw Brady attack Mr. Field, about two doors from the latter's house, with a sword cane or a dagger. Brady knocked Mr. Field down. Another man was standing by, and Mr. Field was stabbed two or three times, and when he turned on the ground he was stabbed again, but witness could not say whether Brady or the other man stabbed him. She saw the driver of the car, and identified Michael Kavanagh as the man. In cross-examination by Mr. Killen, the witness said she did not think that the weapon she saw was a fishknife. A boy named Michael Farrell deposed that as he was passing along Hardwicke-street, about a quarter past six, he saw three men, two of them being the prisoners Kelly and Brady. He saw Kavanagh standing near a car in Hardwicke-street. W. J. Connolly solicitor's clerk, said he heard cries as he was proceeding up Frederick-street. He saw a man sitting on the flags, and a man having a bright instrument hidden under his coat passed the witness and mounted a car standing near, together with another man carrying a revolver. The car then drove away. James Egan, a provision dealer, proved picking up a hat at the scene. The other prisoners, 16 in number, were then put forward, and William Lamle, an informer, was examined. He said he joined the Fenian brotherhood in 1887. He had attended meetings of the I Irish brotherhood at various places, and named several of the prisoners who had been present. He remembered a meeting in Aungier-street, when some discussion arose about Joe Poole. At a meeting in December last, at which Joe Mullett was present, there was a conversation about Delaney, when it was said that if a fresh " vigilance " was organised, Mr. Mallen, detective superintendent, who was endeavouring to put some of them up for perjury, would be dealt wirh. Evidence of finding arms at Whelan's house was adduced, and, on the application of the Crown, the case was adjourned for a week, Mr. Murphy intimating that by that time they hoped to connect some of the prisoners with the Phcenix Park murders. It is stated that the criminal investigation department at Scotland Yard has despatched detectives not alone to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but also to Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, Birmingham, Bristol, Wolverhampton, and other towns in the north of England and acotland where they are actively engaged in tracing out what they hope to prove to be a branch of the organisation by which the murders are alleged to have been committed. On Wednesday in London the Dublin detectives paid another visit to the Army and Navy Co-operative Store, in Victoria-street, and made further inquiries regarding the purchases of the revolvers found with the men arrested in Dublin. They believe themselves to be in posseseion of a clue as to the buyer of the w3apons, which may lead to disclosures more startling than any that have yet taken place. Mr. Field, whose attempted assassination was the subject of last Saturday's disclosures, has left Dublin for England. The three men charged with the murder of Detective Cox have received notices of their trial. The Commission at which they will be tried opens next I Monday.