The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-09-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE IMPRISONKENT OF FATHER  KENNEDY.  GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN CORK.  The Rev. Father Kennedy was on Monday lodged in Cork Gaol to undergo four months' imprisonment for promoting the " plan of campaign." The Mayor, a number of Nationalists, and a band awaited the arrival of the train in Cork, but the police with the prisoner broke the journey at Blarney, and drove to the gaol, a distance of five miles. No little indignation was felt at this ruse, which spoiled an arranged , demonstration. A Cork correspondent says that , the feelings of the people have been outraged by the maninuvres of the police, heightened as they were by the atrocious nature of the sentence. Much disappointment was felt by the large crowd who assembled at the station when they learned that the rev. gentleman had been. conveyed Bon' other way. The people then made off to the prison gates, and hero it was ascertained that Esther Kennedy had been removed from the train at Blarney. Scouts were despatched, and prepare! tions were made to give the "criminal" an ovation. When the car eventually appeared, hats were raised, and a shout was sent up which for volume and fierceness must have conveyed to the prisoner a knowledge of the indignation aroused among the people on seeing a minister of the Chnrch encircled by policemen, and that Mr Balfour had got him into his clutches. A storm of hisses rent the air. The greatest anxiety was exhibited to get 01113 glimpse of the rev. gentleman before the prison gates closed upon him. However, when the police car came to the cross it turned sharply round, and by a devious route drove rapidly to the gaol. It was now it race between those assembled and the police. The people were determined that Father Kennedy should not be taken from their midst without I accompanying him to the threshold, and the ! police spared no efforts to disappoint them, one of their number striking an unfortunate horse that was keeping up to the capturers but too well three or four blows w'th his sabre on the nose, indicting some horrible cuts on the poor brnte. The Mayor, as a visiting Justice, was rermitted to enter the prison, whilst a large cordon of mounted police with sabree prevented others followine. Messrs W. J. Lane, M.P., P. O'Hea. M.P., and Coroner Murphy insisted on their right to pass through the police cordon that guarded one of the approaches to the gaol. Mr Lane showed a determination to contest the rffatter. and but for the intervention of Alderman lf ooper, M.P., would have done so. After Father Keeuedy had been safely lodged in prison the people kept up continnons cheering, and though great excitement prevailed, there was no disorder. The police cleared the roads in the vicinity of the gaol in a brutal fashion. The Rev. Father , Murphy, seeing the disposition displayed by the police, persuaded the people to move off the road, and they shortly complied. Amongst the number who awaited the rev. gentl•man's arrival at the gaol were the Mayor, Mr W. J. Lane, M.P., Alderman Hooper, M.P.,Mr J. Deasy, M.P., Mr O'Hes., M.P., Rev. Canon Keller, of Youghsl•' Rev. Father Murphy, C.C., Glenville; Rev. Dr. Webster, Protestant Dean of Cork ; and a very large number of the Catholic clergy of Mantiter. An interview with the Rev. Father Flynn twhose curate Father Kennedy is) had with some Press representatives gives a very bad account of the health of Father Kennedy, who is only just recovering from typhoid fever. He looked upon the imprisonment of Father Kennedy now, considering the state of his health, as perfect murder, and he was quite sure his dead body would be taken out of the city if he was • kept iv Pork Gaol.