THE IRISH VENDETTA.

Evening Star, Issue 5589, 5 February 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE IRISH VENDETTA.

E->g'and is becoming as unsafe as Ireland 'or anyone who has the mUfortune to forfeit the confidence of Irish oonspbators, whether thoy be Ft>niaus, Home Rulers, or Land Leaguers. Several case* cf cruel outrage h&Ta bean reported during the past few vrwks from different loc»lities inhabited by Irishmen; but a d»libe;aie and cold-blcocfed> juwsbfciion took place list Sunday after>;ooa in the neighborhood of Birmingham,. whiob tirre is every reason to believe wae> inatiga'td by the yengHv«ee of a secret' eccicsy. Tn« vic'ta was a young Irishman named Gaieisy, about twenty-six years of ago, and a native of Athloae. The last five years' cf bis lift had been spent in England, with a viry brief interval <f residence in his own ooumtry. Latterly he h*d been employed on the f*rm <f a horse-breeder at Yardley. On Sunday he walked wver to Solihull, a village not far from Birmlrgbans, to meet an Irish acqaain* Uuce, acd being too late to attend mass at She (Viholic chapel, he went to iht Gardeners' Arms beerhouse, where he remained drinking for mere than an hour. Among tbe company present wf r* several Irishmen, strangeis to ths distriot. la compliance with the invitation cf one of these men, Gaitley went into the yard at the back of the hone-?, followed by two or three others. A pistol-shot was alsmt immediately heard, tnd the murderer of Gaieley quietly re-turr.fi-i through the house, replying to tbe l*n Lru's inquiry as to wh?t was the matter that a shutter lad b'own down. In ine confusion that enmed, the stranger eswped, tha other Irishmen refusing to go in puraiii' : . Gatel*y lingered till Monday evening, fend prefsssed bis inability to assign at;y rea«on fcr the outrage. Since his death, however, it has been discovered that he belonged to the Irish s**nd League. A book has leen found: containing entries of sub* scrip'iior.-B rfrCfived by him on behalf of the organ uati»n, and he has been heard to say that he thoald cease his connection with it. No due has yet bsen discovered as to the identification of fcke murderer. One of the Iv.ei* report* is that hj« bears a strong re-eembla-uoe *o tfc* man who perpetrated tLe rectnt Sheffield outrage, which was characterised by *«*rly the same amount of ccol premeditation.