The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1883-06-16 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EXECUTION OF TIM KELLY.  At eight o'clock on Saturday morning, Timothy Kelly, the fifth and last man condemned to death for the murdar of Mr. Burke and Lord F. Cavendish, was hanged by Marwood at Kilmainham Gaol. The morning was beautifully fine; the sun shining with all the splendour of a summer morning. The interest displayed in Kelly's death appeared to be keener and more wi(ie spread than that attached to the former executions, Brady alone excepted. Before seven o'clock a crowd collected on the Island Bridge-road, and at the fatal moment it had swelled so as to number about 1,000 persons. The military and police precautions were of the same elaborate charabter as observed on last Saturday, and Dr. Carle, the special magistrate, was at his poet at an early hour. The Grenadier Guards furnished the gaol guard and sentries. The execution was winterised only by the governor, Dr. Carte, junior, the chaplains, the chief, and some ten warders. At six o'clock the Rev. Canon Kennedy entered the gaol, and mass was celebrated in the chapel at seven, the condemned youth assisting with great earnestness. He received the sacrament and prepared for death. The procession to the scaffold was formed a few minutes before eight. Kelly bore himself well, but he seemed rather weak and shaken. He was pinioned by Marwood at the same place of exit to the scaffold as in the case of the other men. He took his place on the gttliows without assistance at three minutes ta eight, and the clock marked eight exactly when the drop fell. Death was instantaneous. The convict received religious ministrations from a Sister of Mercy, who is a cousin of Mr. Burke, for whose murder he was hanged. He attended oarefully to his toilette on rising, and left several messages for his relatives with the priest attending him. At the moment of his death the Francis-street Roman Catholic chapel was crowded with the- sympathisers of the convict, and they joined with the utmost fervour in the offering up of the masses for the repose of his seal. The mother and sisters of Kelly were present and a painful scene took pleas. The women among the crowd outside the gaol mattered expressions of sympathy and offered np, some on their knees, the prayer& for the dyitsg. The hoisting, of the him% kft Aram the signal for the usual display of grief, not s few angry expressions caee from the -crowd. One woman was so violent in her curses upon the informer Carey that she had to be removed by the police. After this the people quietly departed for their homes. At nine o'clock the body was taken down by Marwood and laid on a table for the inspection of [ the jury. The features presented a placid appearance. The coroner's inquest was there/ads held, and the usual formal verdict was returned. Kelly's body was then buried with the other four Invinsibles. The convict made no statement. Though a mere youth, Kelly, next to Brady, was the worst of the Invincible gang. It NM Kelly who with Brady stood over the prostrate Secretaries and plunged their knives into their bodies. Months after he and Brady attacked Mr. Field, the juror, and left him for dead. This time, in his hurried escape on a oar, he lost his hat, which was afterwards produced in Court. The two disagreemente of juries in Kelly's case were the most remarkable incidents of the late trials. The large number of witnesses who swore he was elsewhere at ths time of the assassinations was surprising, but the evidence in the three trials was too oonelnaive to doubt that Kelly after the murders drove rapidly into the city, and made his appearance at several places Where he was well known, in the hope of escaping from suspicion.  I Prasois-eireet  At Glos. ~ on Monday, Charles and Adeline Rees, husband and wife, were charged with the murder of a newly-born child, whose body, with severrothers, was found buried in the garden of the amused. Several witnesaes were examined, and the prisoners were remanded, the male prisoner being allowed bail.  Ilimoester  A shocking accident occurred at Shrewsbury on Friday. A steeple-jack named Giorge Williamson, of Manchester, was at work on the spire of St. liikmund's Chureh, when he fell upon the roof of the church, a di3tanee of about eighty feet. He was terribly injured, and his recovery is regarded as hopeless. Some years ago Williamson fell a similar distance, receiving injuries which neoessitated the operation of trepanning. Tau