| Show The Irish Assassins Dublin 19Twentyone of the prisoners have been committed for trial to answer to the charge of murdering Lord Cavendish and Burke Joseph Smith has turned informer Patrick Whelan has been liberated on bail The hearing of the prisoners charged with conspiring to murder government officials was resumed today All the prisoners were again placed in the dock amid hisses The prisoners shouted The future Lord Mayor Carey The latter shook his head menac ingly at his former comrades The examination was then resumed He spoke more confidently than he did on Saturday and replied to the cross examination of counsel sharply and testily He deposed amid hisses by the prisoners that he belonged to the Fenians but not to the supreme council The object of the Fenians was to separate Ireland from Eng land the former country then being harrassed by coercion He had no idea that Lord Cavendish was to be murdered when Burke was attacked He was stupefied when he heard of the former murder mur-der When cross examined Carey said he gave information regarding the murder two days ago He said he had decided to give the evidence directly after he was arrested though did not do so till Thursday As Carey passed the dock James Mullett struck at him and succeed ed ia touching his head Carey turned to expostulate but was pushed to the witness table by the detectives After the prisoners had been committedathe crown counsel stated that Joseph Smith would be examined at the trial Carey left the court at the door furthest from the dock and identified Thos Caf fery as the fourth man on the car containing the murderers when it was driven from the park Carey produced a copy of the Freemans J01rnal to confirm the statement in regard to the determination oho o-ho conspirators to murder Burke This action created a sensation It is expected the prisoners will be tried in March Murphy stated that he hoped to bo able to produce the man known as < rvTo 1 The prisoners pris-oners were remanded for formal committal tomorrow Murphy crown counsel after the committal of the prisoners said it was with great reluctant that the crown had ace pted the evidence of a prisoner wlJ might have been a director and instigator of the tragedy but it had been done however in the in rest of public safety add public good He trusted the executive had thereby obtained to perfpctl penetrate pene-trate this feaifu organisation and hoped to make amenable to justice the plotters as well as the perpetrators perpetra-tors of the murder |
