The Daily Telegraph. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1883.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3667, 16 April 1883, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1883.

As we .vent to press on Saturday our latest cablegram informed us that Joseph Brady had been found guilty of the murder of Mr Burke and of Lord F. Cavendish, and laid been sentenced to death. From English papers to hand avc learn the nature of the evidence brought against the prisoner. The oomietion was mainly duo to the testimony of James Carey, the Dublin City Councillor and Cavanagh", tho car-driver. Carey Avas one of the chief assassination conspirators, but took care to keep himself out of the actual commission of murder. Joseph Brady is the first of the gang avlio will meet with tho punishment due to his crime. Tho gallows Avill claim many more, and it is to be "hoped that those Avho planned and found the money will be made to share the guilt with the actual perpetrators of the murders. "The miserable Avretches," says au Edinburgh paper, " who executed the orders of those in the higher ranks must havo been ruthless abandoned villains, but they were daring and ignorant. Carey is a man better informed, more intelligent than they ; but though quite as cruel iv design he managed matters so as to lift no_ hand iv the commission of murder." He is also a hypocrite. At a public meeting he proposed a vote of condolence Avith the sur-viA-ors of the murdered men. " In one part of his evidence Carey distinctly stated that sums of money had been handed over from the funds of the Land League. This, if true, will account for the very meagre balance-sheet, iv wliich on a single sheet of paper was shoAvn the disposal of close upon half a million pounds." Ou this part of the subject the Irish Times says:—"The one allegation of Carey that, apart from the crimes of blood, transcends tho rest in o-raAity, is the belief Avhieh not only he himself, but his companions entertained, as to the chest from which came the money placed at his command for purposes of specific guilt, and up to the largest amount. On the momentous matter of the funds Aye hold our breath and wait. Carey has declared that there Avas no certainty among the " Invinciblcs " Avhere these came from. Some said from America, and some from the Land League." The London Globe remarks that " the exhaustion of the Land League funds should no longer be considered a matter of impenetrable mystery. So far as the recent

eAidence goes, the money subscribed in America and elscAvhere had a Aery available outlet, of Avhieh, it is only fair to assume, the subscribers themselA'cs kneAv nothing." The London Daily Telegraph points out " that a. hile many of the actual murderers Avere in prison, suspected of the crime, they Averc ' supported by the Land League,' and that on Saturday AA'hen they were removed from the court-house to the prison they Avere ' cheered by a large crowd.' This, though shameful, is less surprising, when avc hear in mind that, according to Mr Trevelyan, the iicav ' National League,' alloAved to ' agitato ' the island and collect . money, is practically the Land League under another name." The Daily News *- gives the following account:—"lt Avas in November, 1881 (though a person connected Avith the Land League, Thomas Brennan, had been previously connected Avith it) that a iicav start was given by a certain Walsh, who appears to be identical with a tolerably well known Fenian agitator in Newcastle. Under this man's influence a society of • Irish Invincibles,' of which 1 Carey, Curlcy, Mullect, and McCaffrey were the four heads in Dublin, .vas formed for "making history' and 'remoAing the j tyrants from tlie country.' For this purpose funds were at once forthcoming. Walsh gaA'e them fifty pounds doAvn, and promised more. They were put in communication Avith a man named Sheridan, already knoAvu as an agent of disorder, with a mysterious 'Number I,' Avho appeared to have an unlimited command of the money. But tho most startling evidence of all was the declaration that the knives, including the specimens produced, the actual weapons used in attacking Lord F. Cavendish, and Mr Burke and others, together with rcA*olvers and rifles used or carried on the same and other occasions, wore furnished from London by a certain Frank Byrne. . . This Frank Byrne, thus charged with direct complicity, appears to be a person very well known as secretary to the Land League of Great Britain Avhieh has its headquarters in London." The Freeman's Journal concludes an article in these words:—"The mystery is as yet only half unfolded, and Aye must aAvait the denouement before pronouncinag a verdict. There is a prospect uoav of its being sounded to the very bottom, and c\'en the mysterious 'No. I,' if he exists, finding his wav into the dock and eventually to the gallov_ It will be tho prayer of every honest man that it be so. Horrible as are the details, some doubtless true, some probably false, of the story now being unfolded at Kilmainham, there cannot but be a feeling of great relief and satisfaction if CA'ontually those concerned in tho most atrocious crimes of modem times are brought to justice. But to think it lay in the hearts of Irishmen to conceive, or tho hands of Irishmen to execute, crimes so diabolical as those recorded, must fill lovers of their country with bitter shame and humiliation."