Alexandria Gazette

Smith, the Invincible,

DUBLIN, Dec. 10.—The aggressive section of the Fenian Brotherhood was somewhat startled to-day by the announcement that the man who recently surrendered to the police for protection and gave his name as John Kelly, and his occupation as a laborer, is really Joseph Smith, the Invincible, who turned informer and testified against the men hanged for the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park. Kelly, when he surrendered himself, stated that he was a member of a secret organization, and had been notified, under pain of death, to shoot Mr. Curran, County Court Judge, who examined the Invincibles under the crimes act; Mr. Bolton, Crown Solicitor, and others. He also said he was concerned in the malicious burning of corn belonging to the Artana Industrial School, and he mentioned the names of some farmers whose hay and corn were also to be burned. It will be remembered that on March 24 last a report was published throughout Great Britain, stating that Joseph Smith, the informer, had died from intemperance. On May 7 it was again announced that Joseph Smith had died in London, where he had for a long time been a hopeless drunkard.