The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1882-12-02 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

FENIANISM AGAIN AT WORK. Even the rigours of the Coercion Act is land appear to be insufficient to stamp , t .or repress the vile outrages of Fenianisns. I Tins product of American lawlessneasis again . .ibiting its power in dastardly, cowardly, Arid murderous crime. There can be no (IS Wiwi that the ramifications of this secret organisation are very extensive and deeply rooted. It is satisfactory, however, that ths villains who carry out the behests of the organisation do not now escape as they did; and it is to be hoped that speedy and seven retribution will be meted out to them. The latest acts of this secret society are of a ' diabolical nature. On Saturday night a party of police officers in plain clothes wepe engaged in watching five or six men, several of whom they knew, in Dublin. They ,watched the men meet, and saw them go in and out of two public-houses. They then heard twice a peculiar whistle, with the mean.* of which they were unfortunately too fieniliar, and they saw one of the men with a nnolver in his hand. This was about eleven o'block at...night. The Inspector in charge Of the constables ordered three of his men to atirest the man with the revolver in his hand. Tliree constables walked up to the band of anti, when a voice said, " Now's your time, .alloot him," and one of their number stepped deliberately into the roadway, within a yard of Cox, the foremost constable., and shot hire ' through the head. Poor Cox sprang at his assailant, and they both fell to the ground, when the villain was shot twice by Inspector EASTWOOD, who rushed to the rescue, and was seized from behind by a man named DEVINE, whom he knew. Someone struck EASTWOOD'S arm, and his revolver fell to the ground, and just then a soldier, who happened to be passing, acceded to EasyWOOD'S request to assist him, and arrested DI • (ox was found to be dead, and was 'eyed to the hospital, and two other me ' o had been recognised by EASTWOOD were afterwards apprehended. The. nvount is net altogether a satisfactory one. There were six constables present What were EASTWOOD'S and Cox's comrades doing all this time, Two of them went forward with Cox to erred the man with the revolver What became of then. when Cox was shot I We hear nothing more of their proceedings. Essrwoon says there was a blaze of shots all round, and. Constable Wiursms "had a hold". on the revolver which the fallen man had in his band. Why could not Constable WiLuans rescne Easrwoon t It does not appear that the other men were chased, so the part the other constables took in the affray remains unexplained. The character of the men, the utter recklessness and desperation of the villians who perpetrate these murders, may be conceived from the remark of Cox's murderer, when the surgeons were probing his wounds at the hospital, "probe away, and be —to you." lbe second outrage was carried out in a very similar manner to that in which the attack 011 Lord FREDERICK CAVENDISH and Mr. Bunke was made, though fortunately with not the same fatal result. The similarity of the proceedings, however, leads to the almost inevitable conclusion that the outrages were planned by the same people; and as yet, at least, both were so far successfully accomplished that no arrests have been made. On Monday evening, shortly after six o'cloek, Mr. D. J. FIELD, who was the foreman of the jury which convicted MICHAEL WALSH for the murder of Constable KAVANAGH, was walking from his warehouse in Westmoreland Street towards his residence in North Frederick Street, Dublin. On reaching the corner of Hardwicke Street, within a few doors of his own house, he was attacked by a number of men and stabbed several times in the back and face. Mr. FIELD fell to the ground, and one of the men continued stabbing him until two youths came up, when the men decamped and ran towards a oar which was in waiting, and which was driven off at a furious pace. No arrests have at present been made, though it is to be hoped sincerely that the murderous villians will not escape. Mr. FIELD was taken into his own house, and medical assistance obtained, and hopes are entertained that he will eventually recover. There is a striking  I when