We should not wonder if the Dublin jury were right
after all in acquitting Kelly for the murder of Talbot. It seems clear from a letter published by a juror that the jury had before them proof not produced in Court that the bullet taken out of Talbot's neck did not come out of Kelly's revolver, and think it not improbable that the assassins, whoever they were, had arranged that suspicion was to full on the man who did not fire the fatal shot. He would be tried, but they would meanwhile get off, and if he were acquit- ted all would go well. If, on the other hand, he were convicted, nearly an impossibility in the teeth of the difference in the bullets, the scapegoat would be allowed to explain the truth. The idea has something of Italian conning in it, but the difficulty of catch- ing a Fenian in America is great, and Irishmen when conspiring show brains.
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