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WEEKEND Friell

KENNEDY

FOR

PRESIDENT

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"Wouldn't it be simpler to use a Black-Box?" -

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Happily, there's a simple, proved remedy

ANTEPAR

PANTEPAR

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 30,

An assassin can't

expect to get away for ever...

A VILER thing never assumed human form. He left the country unpardoned by his Queen, unrepentent to his God, against every man, and every man against him.”

The speaker was Charles Russell, foremost counsel of his day, defending at a capital trial uni- que in history. And the "vile thing" he spoke of was no other than the man that his client in the dock stood charged with murdering.

It is, as a rule, risky for a de- responsible leaders like Parnell fender to attack-especially in might say, there still remained such approbrious terms the extremists irrevocably opposed character of that individual, to any accommodation or come voiceless in his grave, who has promise with England. been east for the pily-rousing role of prisoner's, victim. But

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Russell, on this occasion, ran no THE SUSPICION risk at all. On the contrary, by such tactics he had everything to gain. James Carey, dead no less than when he was alive, could forge an instant unity of hatred among adversaries who agreed on nothing else.

It was a bunch of these - fanatical assassins that sudden- ly surrounded Lord Frederick and his colleague, stabbed and) hacked them to death upon the spot, and made good their Long-standing battles were escape in horse ours standing momentarily halted, Im- by memorial feuds were tem- porarily healed, for the warring ranks to for a common front against the cut-throat Judas of Dublin's Phoenix Park.

The Phoenix Park murders of 1882 stand out even in the bloody record of Irish revolt

against British rule. Not only for barbarity. Not only for dydacity.

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Above all, for the grave set back they administered to hopes that a more peaceful era was

about to dawn.

A LAST STROLL

Welt

Lord Frederick Cavendish had just been appointed Chief Secretary in Ireland. His re putation for liberal thought and conciliatory action

de- liberately intended by the Bri- fish Government as a symbol and a pledge of milder policies, When he strolled with the Under-Secretary along the paths of Phoenix Park on the day of his arrival, the fair sum- mer sky above their heads seemed to reflect the brighter prospect for the tortured. Land beneath.

Within minutes, though, that prospect

into was plunged wintry darkness,

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next day cally and

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everyon

their

They might never have beers caught-for many months they passed immune-had not at last suspicion fallen on their ring leader, who, discarding loyalty and grasping at survival, pur chased

his own safety by betrayal of the rest.

As a result, five of his accom- plices were hanged a number of others received life sentences; and James Carey himself sc quired an indivisible and endur- ing infamy.

The English despised him as a cowardly killer, The Irish hated him as a traitor and informer.

Neither grieved on learning he had met a violent death aboard

Natal under a false name. a British ship while selling to

Patrick O'Donnell, who ad-

mitely had shot him, became a hero in Ireland overnight; nor did he look sympathy in Eng- land, where his guilt' or 'in« nocence by law must be deferr mined.

DEFENCE LINE

MURDER IN TRANSIT

the accused had made. "What Is his own. No revolver was) did was in self-defence," be found in Carty's hand; nor on said. "Carey pulled a revolver his person; nor anywhere near-

by... out of his pocket."

Under the rules of procedure At first glance, that seemed then existing, O'Donnell could, to smash O'Donnell's, story, Yet not amplify that statement upon Carey did possess a revolver, path. It was for Russell alone none the less a revolver which, to build on it as best he could curiously enough, was subse He laid the bricks, one by quently taken from his 15-year- one, in cross-examination, working mostly with the mini run of straw.

old son

Iran and got it from my father's berth," he said in ex-

Fanatical killers surrounded

the

two men, and hacked them

to death

DRAWING.

BY JACK

WHITSETT

him?"

"Yes"

"And then did you and it?" Russell said.

Edgar Lustgarten

today tells the story of the Phoenix Fork murders — and of the strange fate that over- took the last of the assassins,

most ruthless, and most v lainous of men? -

The Jury were out consider- Ing their verdiet for two hours. Twice during that time they' came back into court, asking the fudge for further direction on the law. Palapa ga

The nature of their questions. clearly indicated that they were hesitant and reluctant to

O'Donnell stood deflant as the death

I sentence, was' passed. Then, as the warders moved to

accompany him downstairs, be startled the a crowded court by roaring out "Stand back,” and. adopting

unmistakably oraforical pose,

Only a few words of hi Did you have to search intended speech were heard, but doubtless they conveyed the substance of its theme Three. cheers for Ireland he cried, while they pushed and pulled him, struggling, below. "To beli with the Britishers and with the British crown."

"Only, on a second attempt," the officer replied

So the way was cleared for the reconstruction Russell so forcefully offered to the jury. They had Carey, with his utter THE ECHOES disregard for human-life, know- ing now he had been identified

They had O'Donnell, knowing His abouts, his oaths, and the now who Carey was, and filled dragging of his feet chord with the loathing any decent weirdly in the subterranean passage that led from the Old 'man would feel.

Supposing-and what could Bailey dock to Newgate Jall be more natural?that O'Don- That O'Donnell compalited nell had stigmatised Carey to his facer That he had called the crime of marder there is him by his name; that he had little doubt. That he deserved to stiffer as he did the utmost called him an informer?:

penalty is a question much more debatable.

Russell first established that rose of those (and the Crown called several) who had actually But Russell bad ascertained seen O'Donnell swot had also that not a single soul had seen seen what had occurred in this lad go near his father's mediately before,

Planation. "He was past using it JURY OUT 50 I put it in my pocket."

berth.

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When one recalla reprieves distributed in more recent years by so-called proccio logical thinker O'Donnel! would seem to visit dura probation order," and possibly

Would not Carey, in the air O'Donnell needed all the sym-

cumstances, carry the pistol on pathy he could get, as well as

him, and would he not respond his famous advocate's formidable

with at least a show. of force? gifts.' At the Old Bailey the

And when O'Donnell turned for a sum out of the poor box -Crown called evidence to prove

"Nothing caused me to look," what made you think the out quicker on the draw, might as well. that Carey and O'Donnell had said one; "Nothing drew my boy had a revolver? Russell not Chrey's son try to conceal Certainly few made the voyage from England; attention," said another; "I asked the ship's officer who took that Carey's identity, until then turned round when I heard at from him. unknown, was disclosed by the shot," declared a third

local papers at Capetown; that

O'Donnell, there shown a pub-

lished sketch of Carey, slipped THE REVOLVER

it in his pocket with the remark

"T'll shoot him"; that next day,

Next, Russell put a fresh and on the trip between Capetown mare innocuous gloss upon the and Port Elizabeth, the two men

met and conversed in the saloon; dangerously pointed words. "I'll that while they were thus facing shoot him the only witness each other at close range to hear O'Donnell use them O'Donnell fatally wounded agreed that they were spoken Carey by firing three revolver pleasantly" and that he did bullets in succession.

not take them literally even for a moment,

bare outline of events.

was not substantially in dispute. Last-and perhaps most dex- *terously of all--O'Connell's Unless, therefore, it could be

counsel dealt with the assertion modified or supplemented, a finding of murder was a virtual in his statement that Carey had certainty

produced a revolver and had threatened him. A

Only one possible line of defence existed that, marked out by a formal statement which

O'Donnell did not use such a revolver to shoot Carey; he had shot Carey, with a revolver of

Radar may divert

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

STARTLING progress

rockets

with a new elec which keep the rocket on its

an tronic defence against pre-arranged, flight-path, Russia's H-bomb carry Croscopes in the Bussian ing rockets has

„missiles..., send but electric

been signals to ling motors if the made by British and rocket veer off course. The American scientists.

motora move the fins which

steer it back again.

Experiments have shown that

It works on the principle of interfering with the electronic it should be possible to interfere "brain" of the rocket soon after with these electric siguals in the It is launched.

agreed early stages of the rocke's The rocket can suddenly be fight by beaming out rando thrown off course so violently wares of a special type that it breaks up in the air.

warhead would not ex- plode because the fusing mechapim built into the rocket would also be destroyed, t

The system, largely devel at the Royal Radar ment Malvern

hire,

The waves could be generate by Instaments carried by hig fying balloons or by fred straight upw after the launch

entire detection

A passenger informed me," said the officer,

"Did you challenge the bay?" "I did."

"Did he admit having it?"

á clearer conscience..

murderers

that tell-tale dropped revolver can have, mounted the seagold * in revenge?

Could they not see it all be.. and dropped into eternity with. fore their eyes? Was it not con sistent with the prosecution's evidence? And did it not exact- ly with all they knew of Carey that most desperate,

SPRINGBOARD TO ?

HIGHER EDUCATION

NEXT WEEK: DEATH IN THE AIR

---** (London" Express Service).

H.K YOUTH