Show COL THOMAS F. F KELLY FENIAN LEADER DIES NEW KEW YORK YORE Fob Feb 19 19 is given out of the death on February 3 of Col Thomas F. F Kelly a a. leader of the Fenian uprising in Ireland in 1867 His us death was kept quiet by his hiR friends who feared eared the publicity l which bich his former former deeds would bring to the tho family Kelly was vas born in Ireland in 1833 and cameto came camo to lo America af at an early age At tho the outbreak of the civil war he ho enlisted in n tho the Tenth Ohio Obio and ud nd was elected to a captaincy Ho lie later served on general Thomas Comas staff After the war he went to Ireland and became a chief of staff statI to James Fames Stephens the famous Fenian leader cader With Captain he ha was wa arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested and charged with treason Whilo While bein being eing conveyed irom prison to court in ina ina a n. prison van in in Manchester the van was as attacked by y a Fenian band and tho prisoners released In the attack a police police po- po lice ice sergeant cant was killed and a n. number of the attackers kers who were captured punished for the killing three of them being executed Kelly returned returned to America America Amer Amer- I ica and for the last Jast twenty-five twenty years has IBS been boen connected with the customs service in New York |