DUBLIN EXECUTIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1420, 3 July 1883, Page 2

DUBLIN EXECUTIONS.

Joe Brady, the first convicted of the Phoenix Park murderers, was hanged on the morning of May 14. A vast concourso gathered outside the prison wall, where a strong force of cavalry, infantry, and police was posted to present) order. No attempt at disturbance was made. The Liverpool Irishmen sent the condemned a wreath of flowers with a card of commiseration attached. Brady was silent both to the governor and the chaplain. One of the last things he did was to write to his mother. He carried a prayer book in his hand to the scaffold, and appeared thoroughly resigned and firm, His body foil nine feet, and death was instantaneous. The crowd outside the gaol was estimated at 10,000, a greater throng than ever was collected when executions were public, When the black flag was seen over the gaol, a cry of" hats off" uncovered every head, and the crowd dispersed quickly, Daniel Curley, the second man convicted, met his fato at' Kilmainhara Gaol. The same military guard was present as at the execution of Brady, After the priest had prayed privately with the condemned man in his cell, mass was performed in the prison chapel, in the presence of the Governor and' warder, and Curley received the Sacrament. Meanwhile a group of women, who had gathered outside the prison, were on their knees saying the Litany for the dying. When the black flag, announcing that the execution had taken place, was hoisted over the prison, every man in the crowd outside, which numbered barely 1000, uncovered his head and murmured words of sympathy with. Curley. A rush was then made by the crowd for a garden near by, where Curley's relatives had assembled, and where his father was kneeling and praying for the repose of his son's soul, The people soon dispersed. Curley walked to the scaffold with little assistance. He seeried to be resigned to his fate, but was hardly firm, and he declined to make any statement touching his connection with the crime for which he was executed. Death wasinstuntan'eous. In a letter written to his wife he said, " I will take my secrets to the grave with me, and allow those who are at freedom to enjoy it. ."J' will die in peace; forgiving all my enemies," Thomas Caffrey, the; fourth , Phoenix Park murderer, was hanged in Kilmainham Gaol on the morning of June 2nd, He was composed on the scaffold, and death. was instantaneous'.; The condemned 1 wrote a letter to his

brother on the preceding evening, in which he said, " I hope you will never have cause to blush for my name. As I am paying the penalty cf my crime in this world I hope I won't have to suffer for it in the next.