VETERAN FENIAN DEAD.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 3

VETERAN FENIAN DEAD.

MAN WHO WAS SENTENCE!) TO DEATH 48 YEARS AGO.

London. December 17

The death of Captain O'Meaghor Condon, tho veteran Fenian who was sentenced to death lor his share in the rising in Manchester in 1867, is announced in a cable received yesterday from New York. He was concerned with tour other men—Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, who wero afterwards hanged, and Edward Maguire—iu. attacking a prison van at Belle Vue, Manchester, and rescuing Captain Deasy and Captain Kolly, two of their comrades. One of the party blew oft the lock of tho van with a pistol, and Police Sergeant Brett was killed, but it was clearly shown that. Condon had 1 o share' in the murder, and on the intervention of the United States Government he was subsequently pardoned, after serving eleven years in prison ami undertaking not to visit Ireland for 20 yeat*. On his release he was conducted to America, where- he joined the United Stales army, and on bis visits to Ivelaiiri after tho expiration of the .ime limit the freedom of Dublin and other honours were bestowed on him. Mr John Redmond, M.P., has sent the following cablegram to New York: "Deeply mourn disappearance heroic figure O'Meagher Condon. Irish party send sincerest ■.Yinpa.bhv to relative's and friends.---Redmond. Throughout the present war,. Captain Condon lias been one of tho staunehesi supporters of the Allies in the whole of America.