The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-03-27 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  THE PHCHNIX PARK MURDERS.  The secret inquiry at Dublin aile, before Mr. Curran, Q.C., has not yet 00/110 to OA end. Mr. Curran sits daily, from noon until Ave or six o'clock, and several witnesses are examined at each sitting. The evidence now being collected is intended for the purpose of a rebutting case should the prisoners charged with the Pheenix Park assassinations adhere to their determination of relying upon an alibi for their defence. Every movement on the 6th of May of the men who are to be indicted as the actual murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke has been ascertained. The detective police have shown a good deal of tact in discovering the persons with whom the men associated from time to time during the day and afternoon and until the time when they left Dame-street fox the purpose of lying in wait at the place where the murders took place.  DESCRIPTION OF "No. 'l." The description of the mysterious " No. 1." is now confirmed by a message of Monday's date from Net/ York, where the affidavits in connection with the demand for his extradition are said to have arrived. A few weeks ago the person in question was actually in County Dublin, where the police kept a strict watch upon his movements. He seems, however, to have escaped, for a New York correspondent states that he arrived there on the 7th inst., having embarked from Havre on a French steamer, and subsequent correspondence with his friends in England and Ireland confirms this statement. This mysterious person's name has not yet appeared in the public prints, though he is designated as Mr. T—n. This is correct so far, Und with the P—r interlinked as the Christian name, some persons will know who Mr. P—r T—n is, and will remember the firm of stationers he represented. The affidavits said to have arrived in New York, it may now be stated are worthless. The authorities in the United States, however anxious they may have been to assist the British Government, can now do nothing, as "No. 1" is beyond their reach, and is safely quartered in Mexico, where he has many friends, and among them a brother who holds a high position in the Church in an ad- . jacent State. A letter written by him in the United States was received in England this week, having been carried by hand from New York along with others ; and in it he relates his adventure since leaving Ireland, at the same time jubilantly expressing his satisfaction at eluding the English and Irish police. The photograph forwarded along with the effiidavits to New York is the one which Mr. Mallon, the chief of the Dublin Detective Department, had in his possession. Mr. P—r I—n was photographed in the company of his daughter, 17 years of age, and Mr. Mallon previous to posting the photograph had cut away the photograph of the girl, whose right hand and arm rested on her father's shoulder. 'No. 1 ' may now be considered to have made himself safe, as being in a country which has no diplomatic relations with the English Government. Though never an actual participator in the murders committed in Ireland during the last few years, he was an active organiser and director of the murderous combinations. Recently, before embarking for America, he gave it as his opinion that the edge of the knife would alone cut away Ireland's wrongs, and he had hopes that the knives would ere long do their work successfully. Behind him he has left a wife and family; but these are well provided for, and will presumably soon follow him. In 1867 P—r T--n carried a rifle at the gatherings summoned by Stephens, and since then he has taken part in several Irish Nationalist demonstrations and seems to have spent most of his time in London and Dublin. On the 6th of May last, at the time of the Phoenix Park murders, ' No 1 ' was in the city of Dublin. though he was no near the Phoenix Park.