3 ODONNEIL r I J f t Now that Great Britain has pur j j sued the even tenor of her way in Of j the case of ODonnell and presumed to administer the law in regard to jI f murder as she is in the habit of 1 doing whenever her officers capture a murderer a considerable element Jt in America will fall to and with increased r f in-creased vehemence denounce the t I British government as ripe for f dynamite destruction A good deal of stress has been laid on the circumstance Ii 1 cumstance that ODonnell was an l c J i American citizen and that fact has r i I I been brought forward prominently I a t as something that should make this J n ntinn infoTfova in Viio KnViolf TIV7 I U lift ion JU4lriiClC ill 1113 JUC11CU1 AIJ1B m 1 1 i is right but the United States j interference should go no II I farther than to see that + the prisoner had a fair trial f not according to the laws of this f 1 country nor by a jury of his count coun-t toymen but according to the laws of Great Britain and by a British jury America did so much and J now the matttf ought to drop and Y N it probably will drop soon so far as the two governments are concerned each being satisfied that it has done > its duty to all parties interested j Why certain persons in this country lt coun-try are making so much fuss over 4 the affair is not because ODonnell I I was an American citizen That circumstance f cir-cumstance only gives them something j j I some-thing upon which to base their talk I The real interest in him lies in the I fact that he is regarded as 3 an Irish patriot If he i I had never seen America the anti I British element here would have been just as anxious to prevent his execution In their eyes his crime R r was a deed to be lauded and he alt a-lt hero rather than a murderer In the I s i J eyes of British law the exact reverse I 24 r is Ihs case It does not matter that h Carey the informer was a depraved t1i i r wretch worthy only the execration r J I 1 of men the law could not take into to account Careys character and employ tt em-ploy his cowardice ingratitude and jl l J1 innate cussedness to mitigate 1 ifl ODonnells punishment All the iOC ft law could do in the premises was to ascertain if ODonnell slew Carey Jilt j 11 t and if so whether or not the 1 jf 1 deed was done unlawfully The law seems to have done all this l 1 r r when there was nothing left for it t i to do except to inflict the punishment jf 1 r punish-ment provided for those guilty of the 1 crime of murder That jsutice was lY8 j i not mistaken in decreeing ODon 11 nells death was very clearly demonstrated D dem-onstrated in the prisoners conduct 1 wt l Pi t when the virdict was returned and t 11 itl has since been established bv his I W utterances and the developments f r 1 concerning him In view of what has a already been brought to the surface it will not surprise people to learn r that ODonnelJ with the idea Ji 1 and purpose of avenging his deliberately planned T 1 countryman ii tob f the kilhng of Carey that he as deliberately f P j de-liberately executed the plan following follow-ing the miscreant half around the f i I globe before he found a favorable lit 0 opportunity for this bloody work r Now the law has done its part in t 4rl J the business and those who believe fJ iJ in punishing criminals should ben be-n i f i pleased Among men of morn instincts y a I in-stincts and who entertain even ordinary Ji a or-dinary ideas of patriotism and justice ¬ t death excited pleasure 4 i tice Careys Is t t I l r i rather than sorrow He well merited meri-ted his miserable fate Probably J f 4 1 J the only tears shed over him came A 1 from the eyes of his near relatives 1 1 l But as remarked that wretchs execrable character does not lessen 1 ODonnells crime The latter has y F i 1 1 I simply met the fate that he sought t t and his execution will not be deprecated de-precated by people who respect the t > law and are interested in its literal enforcement