THE MURDER POLICY IN IRELAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1093, 11 May 1883, Page 3

THE MURDER POLICY IN IRELAND.

(Si, James's Gazette.) In Ireland the Government have had to endure many humiliations, but none can ■hive distressed them more, we should think, ■ than the necessity of pardoning a villiau like James Carey for the sake of his information. No doubt it is lawful to make use of informers; and though to pardon one of a gang of criminals as the price of his testimony against the rest is a painful expedient, yet there is ofreu good reason for r.'sorting to it. Good reason tin re may be in Carey’s case ; but when we read the creature’s evidence, note the part chat he himself played in the murder plo’s, listin to his cold blooded denunciations of his comrades and dupes, and then consider what means of detection the Government had already in hand, it does seem most deplorable that they could not contrive to keep theirope round this wre’che’.s neck. Judge him by the evidence which is to save his life, and there was 'no man in the dock on Saturday more guilty, more dangeious and detestable ; and since they ha 1 two or three other infer nets at their disposal already, with' “cine” enough, one would think, for any intelligent body of police to work upon, it does not appear very creditable to the Executive that they should traffic for the evidence ot a man like Carey. But even in the conduct of criminal proseare wheels ; and the Government is not without an answer to those who revolt at Carey’s acceptance as Queen’s evidence. It may be said that it is better that he should peach and live than that he shoul i be tracked out and hanged. For tin use of informers like Carey i< not ro ifined to securing the conviction o' other vilhaniea. The peaching is most use'ul as peaching. Had the police discovered for themselves, slow'y and painfully, all that Carey has allowed his tongue to reveal, one murderer the more would he ready for hanging, no doubt ; hut his death would create no such terror in the assassination clubs as his tre-cbery will, or a tenth part of it. There is that great consolation in the thought that he will a ill live in this world when his fellows have been swung out of it ; au l more comfort yet may be found in tbs likelihood that no Invincible Brother will eyer trust another in matters of murder till the memory of this infamous ore>ture has grown dim.