The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-04-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

TRIAL CF CURLEY.  The trials were resumed in Dublin on Monday morning, before Mr. justice O'Brien and a special jury. The prisoner now arraigned was Daniel Curley. Dr. Webb, Q.C., and Mr. Adams had been assigned for the defence, and they appeared iu that capacity, but Dr. Webb asked to be relieved from such a duty at the close of the present case. 'Fhe Judge deferred his decision in the matter. Mr. Murphy, Q.C., in stating the case for the prosecution, Raked the jury not to be influenced by fear, for the foul conspiracy, he said, was now utterly confounded, and nobody need have the slightest apprehension of its revival. Among the new evidence to be called would be that of a servant girl named Jones, who saw the tragic scuffle in the park, and would identify Curley all one of the group. Peter Carey, James Carey's brother, one of the " Invincibles," would also be put in the witness box. Counsel also said that shortly after the murders the" Invincible" leaders began to suspect danger, and thought it necessary to set Peter Carey to watch the carman, and the result was a plan for "doing away with" Kavanagh. James Carey was the first witness now called. He said that Curley was one of the first members of the Invincible Society, and was present at all the attempts made to murder Mr. Forster and Mr. Burke. Asked by Dr. Webb if he was a party to twenty-two attempts On the life of Mr. Forster the witness sent a thrill through the court by his cold-blooded manner of ' owning to "only twenty." and the sensation was heightened when he protested thatthe "would not call it murder at all, but only to remove him." Indeed, there was a succession of " scenes " at the gratuitously unblushing effrontery of the witness's answers, and the utter depravity of his nature revealed by the croas.examination created profound  disgust in Court. He thought Mr. Forster deserved to be amsasainated, and "he would not like to meet him in heaven." He said he had " indirectly " employed his wife—the mother of his seven or eight children—in the work of this murder band. Joseph Smith (the Castle labourer) accompanied witnesa on the 3rd May in order to point out Colonel Hillier (late Inspector General of Irish Constabularly), who was to have been murdered along with Mr. Burke. "The two things were to be done on the one day. Both were to be removed on the very day of the Lord Lieutenant going away." After another approver, Robert Farrell, I had been examined the Court adjourned.. Great progress was made on Tuesday with the trial of Curley, but no evidence of a startling character was brought forward. Joseph Smith and the c irman Kavanagh repeated what they knew of the murder of Mr. Burke, and Peter Carey, brother of the famous informer, teaified that James Carey and Curler, suspecting Kavanagh, told him off to watch the lad. He did so, and reported to the four leading conspirators, when Curley remarked that Kavanagh should he wiped out. A bui der named Michael Glynn was also examined, and said that he had seen Curley in the park on the evening of the murder, aud had had some conversation with him. Emma Jones, a servant girl, deposed to seeing the struggle in the park; she saw something glitter, and then one of the gentlemen fell. She was positive that Curley formed one of the group. Other evidence was given showing that Curley was in the park on the evening of the murder, and that he was off work on the ath and 6th May. This closed the case for the Crown.—A.ddressing the jury for the defence, Dr. Webb maintained that there had been no sufficient corroboration of the evidence of the informers upon which to base a conviclon. Carey and Kavanagh, he maintained, contradicted each other, tied one of them must be a perjurer. The learned doctor also dwelt on other inconsistencies, and in defence of Curley set up, as in Brady's ease, an al.bi. The trial was again adjourned.