Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — ANOTHER MYSTERY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER MYSTERY.

Dr. .John Mclnerny Said to Have Been Lured West and Murdered. New York, July 1. —Dr. John Mclnerny, one of the four men who are alleged to have been doomed to death by the inner circle of the Clan-na-Gael, ismi*smg. His friends claim that he was killed before Cronin was. Shortly before he was last seen in the middle of April, he received at the Catholic Protector a telegram from Omaha offering him a good position if he would come there immediately to take it. It is assumed that he started for Omaha in' time to have arrive 1 m Chicago en route on April 21. His friends in New York have written to Omaha to inquire about the telegram and the alleged position awaiting him, and have received replies that after diligent inquiry no one could be found who was interested in Melnerny’s going to Omaha, nor had he been seen there. John Devoy, who was Mclnerny’s associate in the Irish Nation, believes Mclnerny was lured to bis death by the telegram. All agree that there is just as good ground for believing that Mclnerny was assassinated as for the assertion that Cronin was slain by the inner circle of the Clan-na-Gael, which had doomed Cronin, Mclnerny, Devoy and Dr. McCahey, of Philadelphia, to death. There is evidence to show that traps were laid for McCahey, just like those that at first failed with Cronin. Devoy has been oj enly threatened, rnd men have watched his moveipents, not' knowing that their movements were also watched.

Since Mclnerny disappeared fr.om this city on April 6 a letter has awaited him at his address here in which a young married woman seems to hint at an intrigue with the missing man. His friends here believe that he was murdered in the Carlson cottage before Cronin, aud that the arrangements made for tha disposal of the latter’s body, but interrupted, were carried out in Mclnerny’s case. Dr. Mclnerny was the most secret and most trusted agent of tne Irish revolutionary organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. Mclnerny was the go-between for the triangle composed of Alexander Sullivan, Michael Boland and D. C. Feely of the Clan-na-Gael here, and the extremists of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood m Ireland. He was the man of all others who had the key to many a secret transaction; who was in full possession of the underhand workings of the Clan-na-Gael. And more than all, it was he who, as general agent, knew just how much money each man sent across to the other side received from the triangle in America. When Mclnerny began to compare notes w ith emissaries who had returned from • England and Ireland lie found that there was a screw loose in the financial department, and then, having found this out, he despised the executive and made no secret of the fact that somebody was dishonest. Here then is a sufficient couse for believing that Mclnery has been murderedThe bond of society is.obedience to law, and the obligation of all law, human or divine, rests on the doctrine of reanonsibility.