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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
Vol. XI, No. 53. Whole No, 6
94,
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 30, 1916.
Ootered a9 socond-cines matter. Oct. 1, 1902. at the Post Office at
New York, Ne Bay creas
under the ect of Cony
of Maren 3 14%
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
WIDOWS OWN STORY OF
SKEFFINGTON'S MURDER |
She Reached New York By Baffting The Vigilance Of The British Government,
Which Sought To Keep Knowledge Of Its Owa Infamy From The Outside
World—Asquith Tried To Bribe Her To Keep Silent, But Ske Spurned
“His Base Offer—ter
Shot By Colthurst Because
sbaud Was Not An Insurgent, But Was
He Had Witnessed Kis Cold
Blooded “Murder Oi -The Boy, Coade—The Murderer
Not Insane—Cowardly British Soldiers Looted
~ Hundreds Of Houses tn Dublin During =
: Faster Week—She Will Lecture :
Throughout The Country,
By Cuantorre Teter,
. (From the American, Dec. 24.)
A dark slight woman, with an intense,
‘They are
the Hotel Earle, No: 103 Waverley
ce.
This wom:
she were a fugitive from just For
months before she set sail for tite coun-
try, she was followed wverywhere by
etectives. Her h as watched.
The hou |
ountry, it asked the
~ American jimunleration oficial at Ellis
aslane her
is the
dered
widow of a man
y officer during
the Irish revolution of last Easter. Her| )°)
husband was taking no part in the revo-
luth fe was @ pronounced pecits it.
ile woman's only crime is that she wi
have oe been?” The said, ‘In
An an
a 2
2
@ parson, and said, ‘Bash him on the
jaw.’ And the boy's jawbone was shat-
tered by the butt-end of a rifle.
in front of the church to, die.
that’ Dloodstain myself a Jong time
an has come here as 6 though after
“My husband saw that boy killed.
ried. was sent to me.
“Connolly's wife was allowed to see
her it
. . husband. But {t was twenty-four
“LIKED IN THIS coun ours after my"husband’s death that I
‘ancis . Sheehy- ‘sketInston. visited) found this man whose boy had been
this country @ year ago, and his gentle-! killed. When he had gone to the mor-
ness ‘and idealism made him many|tuary to get the body of his hi
frtends here. noen- another Lody: there.” When: he de:
Now his widow ‘has 0 Teotare seribed it I knew it was my husband,
on. “aglish iltarism a8. Tay “Then I wgnt to the chaplain. ~ But
all he dared to tell me was just the
Simple tact that my husband had been
shot and buried. e Was very
mt much frightened. So I did not press
ike hush-money—‘“compen-
And how
make
sation money,” he called. it.
she was a passport to this coun-
try—if she ‘would promise not to talk
about the war.
(Her eyes filled with tears while she
talked, but her mouth was firm.
hristmas wall ve very hard
‘for me,” said Mrs. Skeffngton. Las'
ths
‘And then she told me what the year
7
0 Ireland.
him to tell me fares mor
“I went home
ere ‘ras a a yoliey of shots fire
rushed after her. I knew tl
house must be surr<
they tried. io escape they might be
ix BATONETS AT WOMEN,
the windows they had broken.
re were forty of them, with three
ofticers. Th
ech fixed bayonets
‘wo women and a little boy he years) Fy
to
from | 01d.
Satin’ “These rlages “vere veing| "He cried out—that was quite natu:
: e thoy wanted to get my/Fal, wasn't it? And when he cried out
husband, And ft was as he was cross-|they told him to hold up his end
Tues-|'These are the protectors of ea
ay Steenoom that sean ace ate . and children,’ I said. It stopped. ‘them
f fer a moment,
imew nothing 0 He had told} fcr,
me he might be kept in Dublin that] “Then they went through my how
night. I didn't. worry. ete on| They took everything my husband bad
Wednesday afternoon : 2 hear ° Fitton en the mar weer Bt ofa
rumo! aid that ihe bed been rit the
“Byen tf
wfl let him go aga But I tried to
find him. And on reday mornini
sisters went to the Portobello Bar
racks to make inquiry. They were dr
tne he i : mation
id he had no infor
Colthurst sai eet ney sald ther
had hear: was already shot, Col-
mt ‘and several other officers had a
gon had been k
man whose ean
le,
"church into, the sitare.,
eaten weet 0 up 28 him, at
marta law. ‘has "teen aoaared? "Where
omnes ors that be bad been ‘ane tr
‘And behind the folding
ne of them say, as he
Pi up a.German grammar am &
teacher or French and German):
“Dye see this? I guess" BSkeffington
was in ecrrespondence with the Kalser.’
‘That shows you how stupid they were,
ree officers
One of those thr
killed bim.
| SOLDIERS 007 ED HONDREDS or|*
“There " were ohenveds of houses
raided In Dublin—and looted.
things of real worth.
their selling valuable paintings on the
street—pa which
stolen fom Datts 0
SMrrhere was the courtmartial -after-
ward
reach oO}
a cota, Colthurst ‘was accused o}
ere were three
this
murder of another boy
a
my little boy to| he
the same age, who was asked
for information about the Sinn Feiners,
Id not, or would not.
zive it, was told i Colthurst | to slneet
3 the
ht Imself,
Colinarat shot ‘him Tn ‘he “back, and he
:
was John w of the
“The on a murder was that of a| Irish Volunteers, and who actually told
City Councillor of Dublin, Richard|ail his men to stay quiet, not even to
"Carrot. He was shot tn the Jungs.| mobi{lfze, is-in Dartmoor ‘ison, mak-
And then he was taken to the hospital. | Ing sacks, the two Plunketts are
And for ive oe his mite did not know] making mall bay nd is treating
where fe re days after oe her political Prisoners as though they
found b in cruel agony. And| were conv felons, ordinary erim
a ron rater te death, she gave dirte pals. * She ‘oken all her own
toa
t was after this that Coithurst waa
Promoted. And no one can ever make
me believe that the English officers
above him were not fully informed of
ae 8 had an
3
7
2
2
of martial
blanche to si noo to kill.
Incredible.
SLAIN MEN INNOCENT.
“By a strange irony, the two men
whose _rmarders, like that of my hus
They
that they believed that, ‘the declaration
Bayi
That seems
band,- made known to the world
or Dickeon and McIntyre—were quite
Innocent. They were mistaken for two
w| other editors whose writings were con-
«
sidered ‘seditious,
“Coltburet
was in charge of all the} Want
raiding parties. “I watched him at the
courtmartial. He fs a man of thirty- Rother way ‘n by fe mine. And wi
Fa rat aon Wednesday morning. 1) sve, handsome, and I believe honestly | & face to face this winter with the
LTearned then that he hiad bean arrested Oo eed or ‘his Tight to kin “irish Possibility of @ famine like that of
on Tuesday evening, But ” | Rebels.’ Is47—a the midst of plenty.
Tuesday at’ midnight they had taken!" stcre was something very strange,|The potato crop was smaller: than
him out, as they said, ‘as a hostage. | sual lish bi hi
though, in the way he killed. He seem-| US¥@l- lish buyer: °
REACH OF ENGLISH LAW. . | ea to want his victima to str, Detore over and inflated the prices, ‘and taken
“That was a breach of English, law.| they died. An arniy ofter by tho n every potato they can get, “And
en once you are varreste you are/of Goodm: ‘And he| Sif have seen shipload ater shiptoad
supposed to be. protected by what is|told now, im India, when celthuree pag | of cattie—the ‘wealth of Ire and, and its
known as ‘the King's peace.’ They had| been annoyed all night by the barking |f0d—being taken out of the country,
ie came bi in his fellow officers
heard a terrible and piteous whining,
and id, ‘Did you kilt dog?’ ‘No,’
said ‘Cantata Colthurst, ‘T didn't iin
him. He'll be in agony for some hours.’
ENGLISH LUST TO TORTURE.
this just to torture.
Tand knows it. Jreland fs the blockest
1 | Spot in the British
ctor ot ‘Bonomi Barracks
1. Baich—-refused ‘to ‘certify that
Coltharst was insane. And he ‘was
called ‘the white man’s grave? ' And |“
after he reached there—the west coast
of Africa— t
ww back, an Ai
the conrtmartial
0 wi
that Captain Colthurst was adjudged in-
I
ia not let ,it stop here.
quith myself.
pointed, ae “sir
hose books you
Franc!
know in this country, was the one offi-/ fi
cer who tri t justice done, I
wanted, it ‘possi bie, to get the personal
hi
An
went with me to Dublin Castle. They
gave him the ring at once, and the
walking-stick, which they safd they had
ept because they wore sure that it had
secret code written upon it:
“Maxwell, Vane’s superior officer, sent
loyalty to England dur-
ing the Rebellion, he was called over
| there, and diemissed from service, He
is ther
NONE DARES BE FRIEND. . | has contradicted more than one report
jar fend | concerning himself in recent time:
in Ireland, unless he is willing to give| which events proved to be true. If any
up everythi rth e of Ireland such scheme were actually pnt forward
Sir Francis Vane had once before come| by Sir Edw: ard Carson it woold be re
under official censure, because ade parded by Nationalists with suspicion
a protest against the way the English
thurst himself, the man who had *utted burned ine Boers’ farms during the than asa help to Home Rule. The sig.
-|my husband. And- it was brought} Boer W ificant Airuminnce, nowerers concern:
out afterward—he ral | "Before the Royal Commission could] ing this rumor is tl s Le
{thout any order from a superior of-| sit {n August many of the witneses had| sured, that rhe te the Idea of
ficer, He wanted to get evidence to in-j been sent a Some of them we have| Mr. Llord Geo ge Dimself, It is said
criminate my husband efter he had tol he
th cam
an old distillery.
condemned by advice of your American
Aribassador, Mr Page, as a camp for
German prisoners.
PRISON UN FIT FOR ANIMALS.
“But they moved the Irish prisoners
there, And there is no one to mai
protest in their behalf. It’s not fit for
the prison srhere. they
ndly.
als.
“In some of
sent the irish the warder:
sald| tion.
rs carte| face.
und.
Probably destroyed by the soldiers,
c
° Jand with Conserfption for that country
a eet
Matdstone, And there are a great many
untried men today in Reading Jail who
herded there without an:
that there {fs any charge
Countess Markievicx te working
in the kitchen of the Aslesbury Prison,
bre
ws, and {nternational Jaw.
“aEDE PRETEXT FOR MASSACRE,
ere is greater
Ditterness of fecling than at the time
‘enecriptton possible—
be a success.
“and yet they will do it.
“Because it will give them
general
0 wipe out the Irish people. Te
ts one way to
UNITE IRELAND.
scription will unite Ireland. For
wers are against it.
Year.
difference betw
Lioyd Geor,
weak, But they
It may
inished, “The. Ivf nmonwealth in
Relation to International Polity,” It
was the result of years of work
study: reat b ig friends to
whom he read it in manise ript say
CARSON'S FAKE HOME RULE,
London correspondent of the
Dublin Independent, writing in the ts
sue of r 7,
The remor fret “siven pablicity fp work
esday
this column on Tw
Carson was proposing @ ome ‘Rule act
tlement on the basis of a united Ire
f the bari
forth with greater definiteness by the| 8
Daly Chronicle. It has been denied by
‘arson. It ma: ery
oa in ‘his connection that Sir Edward t
re
being inenied as a hindrance rather
is very does
not realize the insuperable difficulties
in the way of carrying through such @
deal.
1
~ 4
ASQUITH'S BAD BAD RECORD,
(Pro om the Roscommon Heratd,)
It is nonsense to talk of arth as
a friend of Ireland. it was under his
ersonal orders that the shelling of
Dublin was carrie lew Fath
tess In the enforcing. “ot the death se
tences in Kilmainham Jail last May. Tt)
was in keeping with his record since he
reated John Daly ani ynamite
prisoners in Gladstone’s day with a
ferocity thet even the Tories ier on
were ashamed of when they
&
a
rt-| Daly and "pts
is constructed under his auspices.
nounves the death, ber 22,
ja . O'Kelly, Stember of Parliament
for
the New York papers had only
few lines about the death and
their notices were ‘full of errors.
the| The ald, to which O'Kelly ren-
dered dtstingutahes service, did
publish @ lin ne Ferarding him. And: yet.
in the best
known snare in New York end per-
fo any briljiant newspaper feats.
He bad been broken in health for man
| O'Kelly stood by him to the last and
e by James J.
+ | in May. 1842,
friends from the reonvict which Ale:
O'KELLY, MEMBER FOR NORTH ROSCONMON, DEAD
Was A Fenian In The Old Days, Served Ia The French Foreign Legion In Mexico,
- Tried To Organize Au trish Regiment For France Ia [870 And Was Engaged ©
Jo Many Paring Revo‘utionary Schemes—Had Notable Career As A New
York Newspaper Man, Entered The Insurgent Lines tn Cuba As A
Correspondent And Was Sent
Spaniards—Saved By Cy wtelar And Pi y” Margall
Pictted To Capture Gi
>%pain—Was Broke
bed Years And Took L
‘ Parliamentary Pai
cable despatch from London an-
agi
ction and a
‘ally cut a considerable figure in
Irish politics from 1867 up to a few
years ago, when his health broke down
several years was one of Parnelt's chief
advisers, boing closer fo ni him than per-
beps any other ‘he only
Constitetional ‘eader that
demoralized and denationalized follow:
ers, at the bidding of the Englishman
whom he had beate: we knees,
wae eeat to America td fight « foriorn
hope. ince then he plared no impor
tant part and was Httle heord of “But his
arkable and adventurous career de-
serves more than a patsing notice. The
story ot bis life fs so interesting ad 80| ©
with thi € history, of the per-
fed in “eaten he lived that it cannot be
dealt with in one. te
Parliament,
’ EARLY LIFE IN DUBLIN.
was born
His father at one tim
d considerable house property and
to make pikes, with the present writer
acting as'his helper. His father died
2
3
Ba
3
s
a
BE
a
2
a
4
3
R
5
aS
up.
father’s property in 1862 and went to
ndon, learned the rudt-
ments of sculpture in his uncle's studio.
But ke never finished. All a Jromers
arles, Scophen and Alo;
came artists
BECAME, A FENIAN IN 1861.
James O'Kelly, while stilt in Dublin,
he ainonp here
was Gecldealy English The tw ° bere
were also members of a G: cla
founded in. 1858 and which, etter tail.
ing to maintain Heetf was conducted {
M
when he.eptered the Brittes Pa
ed
in Dublin
the editorial roo Nation, of
xeander mM ‘Sullivan was edi-
tor, and his now better known brother,
enced To Be Shot By The .
‘tar And Deliver It To
“Health for Many
Part in The
s Affairs.
T. _silivan, the poet, was his chief
In t ice where the sur-
3 were not favorable to Fenian:
tem, 4h O'K yy were
“sworn in” by James O'Callaghan of
Kanturk, who “made” more Fenians
than any other man in the movement
except O'Donovan Rossa.
Early in 1862 O'Kelly moved to Lon-
don and st: t ‘en‘an movement
there, re were a f ‘enians in
Loi Bw in by
poet meet,
“te
ama
center rrembers taken ‘a Coy O'Kelly t i
cenveD IN THE Fone’
"Kelly's tastes wer mili
He Joined the London Inst Volunteers,
Dut w a few months in the corps
ht
he crossed to Brownsville and made bis
way to New Orleans. From ther
worked his passage on a sh{p to Bi
more, where, after a white, he received
money from his uncle to take him to
ondon
5
‘oProsen, THE RISING OF 1867.
his utmost to prevent it knowing
roper armament would
. His al advice wat ‘a8 unheed-
ed; the Rising failed and O'Kelly took
e reorganization
a
&
n
Dublin Irishman, then e
ard Pigott of infamous memory, but
whose real character was not then
known .
Alter the Disestablishment of the
Irish Protestant Church in 1869 many
prominent
ger, threaten-
ed to “kick the Queen's Crown into the
e| Boyne” and a Conference, which O'Kel-
ly attended. was held in Dublin to start
Home Rule movement, but their anger
soon cooled and nothing came of
though it dragged on wu
adership at another Con-
ference in 1873.
ACTIVE IN AMNESTY MOVEMENT.
A great Amnesty movement, control-
Jed by the reorganized Fenians, was
868 and resulted an the re.
lease, in March, 1869, mber of
Fenians, including Charles J. kickham,
the. poet and novelist; Jame:
O'Brien, later. Treasurer. of the partis
mentary Party, id James O'Connor,
who died a few years ago Member of
Parliament for West Wicklow, Dj
the leading Fenians, being the chief
in| manipulator. It succeeded in pros
the release in December, 1870,
(Continued on Page 7.)
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