CAREER OF A FENII CONVICT.
The police authorities of Scotia: have issued a notice offering a rewai formation as to the whereabouts United Kingdom of John M'Caffert; victed of high treason in Dublin in - sentenced to peual servitude for li of William O'Riordan. It is not sent known whether the persons " are suspected of having had anj tion with the recent explosion; but interesting to give an outline of the dinary career of M'Cafferty, whom thi ties are now seeking, 16 years afte sentenced to death in Dublin by Mr.. now Lord—Fitzgerald. The sente subsequently commuted to one of p vitude for life, which explains the the police notice. John M'Caffe born of Irish parents in the State o IS3S, and during the civil war jo Confederate army, in which he ro rank of captain. In 1565 he crossed Ireland to assist the Fenian insurrec waa arrested on board thestearaer Qui before he landed. At his trial in I .conrt held that his arrest, when he 1 mitted no overt act showing a treaso tent, was illegal, he being an alien, was discharged. M'Cafferty went America, but came to England in tl part of 1866, and was the organise raid on Chester castle, which took February 11, 1567, with the inte seizing the large stores of arms knov in it. Subsequently, on the 23rd of month, M'Cafietty and a companioi Flood were arrested in Dublin just as they had left a collier arrh Whitehaven, and wete making their the shore ia a whaleboat. M'Cafff tried for high treason, and found gv the 6th of May, and a week subsequf of the Irish judges sat as a court o to consider certain legal points raisec Butt, the prisoner's counsol. The mous judgment of their lordihips wa the prisoner, and he was svibsequen tenced to death, the commutation fo Such was the checkered career of th< convict for whose whereabouts in the Kingdom tho police authorities nc rewards. O'JRiordan, the other mai "wanted," does not appear to have as a leading spirit in the Feuian mo —Times,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6936, 9 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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345CAREER OF A FENII CONVICT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6936, 9 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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