IRISH INFORMERS. How They Have Fared Abroad.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 3

IRISH INFORMERS. How They Have Fared Abroad.

Aftrr the Phoenix Park murders and subeequent execution of those convicted of the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke, popular feeling against the informers ran so high that they were kept in prison to save their lives. The Government cast about for means whereby to get rid of the incumbrances, and finally, with much secrecy and disguise, Kavanaugh, Smith, Carey and Farrell were smuggled out of the country to various colonies. News has just been received of the informers, three and a half years after the Invincible trials. Kavanaugh, the carman, has been dead for some time. He always drank hard, and after leaving Ireland went from bad to worse, and finally succumbed to delirium tremens. Joe Smith, the man who from working for tho Board of Works, making repairs to Dublin Castle, knew Mr Burke and pointed him out to the assassins, is also dead. He died under much the same circumstances as Kavanaugh. Peter Carey, a brother of the notorious James Carey, who was shot by O'Donnell, has done remarkably well and is now in prosperous circumstances in one of the colonies. He was, when in Dublin, always regarded as a sober, steady man and clever artisan. Bob Farrell, the van driver who first turned informer, is also doing well in another of the colonies.