NAURICE MOSER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1712, 15 November 1887, Page 3

NAURICE MOSER

The correspondent of the " Standard " says :— •• The " New York World' 1 has published an fxtraordlna/y acoouat of tho dolnga m this connt?y of one Maurice looser, aud pledges lta good faith m the erpesaro that It makes. Moser is an Englishman, who asserts that he has been commissioned to procure letters which would Implicate the leaders of the Irish party m the House of Commons In the crimes imputed to the National Loapae, and especially In the Phc^l* Park murders. Closer Btates that be was engaged by the solicitor (o the London "Times," and associated himself with an American whom tho " World/ oallfl Jackeon, and offers, If ne^eauary, to pro* dace In Co^rt. 'i'ynan engaged to esll yierta.lri le,«e^B for ftQDdol, and Sheridan agreed to part with cihom for a slm,Har amour,^ looser repoifced to his etrpioyers that the loiters would cost 320Qd01. He reoelved by cable authority to draw that >om, and gave h^lf of his dishonest overcharge to OaokaoD. In the narrative several tele* grams from Mr Walter are published, and alao the text of some of the letters — namely, to Sheridan from O'Brien, one ; from Mr Dillon one ; to Tynan from Qainn, threo ; from Mr Dillon, one; from Mr Healy, one. Mr Walter bjq' failed, says the " World,'. 1 In his special oommiqsion to get from Mr Sheridan two letters ■ written by Mr Parnell. The letters abound m covert phrases, of which the following, m Mr Dillon's lo'ter to Sheridan, is a sample : — ( We are all sorry to think such extreme measures had to be taken, but there was uo otber way, and the end justified the meaoa. ' X ought to adcl that dutlre credence Is withheld at present from this atrange story on the ,^»n o£ th,e <» WotW,"