Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-09-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE IMPRISONMENT OF FATHER  KENNEDY.  GREAT DEMONSTRATION TR 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 poi, a distance of five miles. No little indignation was felt at this ruse, which spoiled an arranged demonstration. A Cork copendent says that the feelings of the people have been outraged by the manceuvres 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 some other way. The people then made off to the prison gates, and here it was ascertained that Father Kennedy had been removed from the train at Blarney. Scouts were despatched, arid preparations were made to give the "criminal " an ovation. When the ear eventually appeared, bete 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 Church 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 one glimpse of the rev. gentleman before the prison gates closed upon him. However, when the police ear came to the cross it turned sharply round, and by a devious route drove rapidly to the gaoL It was now a race between those assembled and the police. The people were determined that Father Kennedy should not be taken from their midst without 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 captarers but too well three or four blows with his sabre on the nose, indicting some horrible cute on the poor brute. I The Mayor, as • visiting Justice, was permitted to I enter the prison, whilst a large cordon lof mounted police .with sabres prevented ; others following. Messrs W. J. Lane, I M.P., P. O'Rea. M.P., and Coroner  Murphy insisted on their right' to pass through the police cordon that guarded one of the approaches to the gitoL Mr lane showed determination to contest the matter. and bat for the intervention of Alderman Hooper, M.P., would have done so. After Father Kennedy had been safely lodged in prison the people kept up continnocui cheering, and though greet excitement prevailed, there was no disorder. The police cleared the roads in the vicinity of the goal in a brutal fasillon. The Rev. Father ' Murphy, seeing the disposition displayed by the police. persuaded the people to move off the road, and they shortly eomplied. Amongst the number who swatted the rev. genthmen'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'Hea, M.P. Rev. Canon Keller. of Youghel: Rev. Father Murphy, C.C., Glenville; Rev. Dr. Webster, Protestant Dean of Cork; and • very large number of the Catholic clergy of Munster. An interview with toe Rev. Father Flynn (whose curate Father Kennedy is) had with some Press repreeentatives gives a very bad account of the health of Father hermedy, who is only pint recovenng from typhoid fever. He looked upon the imprisonment of Father Kainely now, considering the state of his health, as perfect murder, and he was quite sore his dead body would be taken out of the city if be was kept in Cork Gaol.