DEATH OF A LEADER OF FENIANS
(Received December 18, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK,. 17th December. Obituary—Captain Condon, who was prominent in the Fenian movement. [Edward O'Meaher Condon was a prominent figure in the Fenian movement in
Manchester in 1,867. On 11th September of that year, Colonel T. J.Kelly, "deputy central organiser of the Irish Republic," one of the most dangerous of. the Fenian conspirators, was arrested in Manchester, together with a companion, Captain Deasy. A plot to effect the rescue of these prisoners was hatched by Edward O'Meaher Condon, with other Manchester Fenians, and on the 18th September, while Kelly and Deasy were being con.veyed through the city from the Courthouse, the prison van was attacked by Fenians armed with revolvers, and in the scuffle Police-Sergeant Brett was shot dead Condon and four others were arTested and sentenced to death, but Condon^ who was an American citizen, was respited, and his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. One of the other four was pardoned, the others were hanged. Kelly and Deasy escaped to the United. States, the former receiving employment in the New York Customhouse.]
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 147, 18 December 1915, Page 5
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