Why O'donnell Was Hanged

Londoií, April 18. - Tho exSraórdinary statement is mude, upon tho authority of an ex-confidential attaché of tho home offlco, that it was iiot origlnally intended that O'Donnoll, who assassinated James Carey, the Phoeaix park murder inforrner, should expin'n his deed upon the gallows. Aceording to the disclosure in question O'Donnell was to have been sentunced to death, and his sentence then oominution to lifo imprisonment as an Indicated that the goveramen t regardod his offensa as not without palliation. O'Donnell himself, however, gpoiled this portion of the programme, when, Dpon the death sentence beingpronounced, ho stood up in the dook in the Old Bailey and deflantly shouted at the top of. his voieo: "God save Iroland and the United Statee, and to h- 1 with England." This was taken by some mombers of the government as conürmiug a curren t belief that O'Donnell was merely the agent of the American Clan-na-Gael, and consequently Sir William Harcourt, then home 8ecretitry, determined that the law should take ita cuurso. Lord Chaucellor Sel borne and Earl Granville wero in favor of the original programmo belng adhered to, but Harcourt took the ground that O'Donnell had oonvicted himself of being allied with an American conspiracy, and contended that Éne IDnglish govornment could not afford Sy mistaken clemency to tolérate InshAmerican terrorism. O'Donnell may, therefore, be said to have been his own ezeoutionor.