PARNELL ARTICLES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 5

PARNELL ARTICLES.

-AUTHORSHIP ADMITTED. . tly Toleeraph-Press Assnciation-Oonyrieht London, April 7. A sensation has been caused by an article •in , "Blackwood's Magazine," written by Sir Robert Anderson! The writer naively confesses that he, while at the Home Office, was, tho'author of the "Parnellism and Crime" articles in "The Times" in 1887—articles which discredited the Gladstone Homo Rule cause.

THE PARNELL COMMISSION. '.In 1888. a commission was appointed by Act of Parliament to fry the charges brought against Mr. Parnoll by "Tho Times", in their . articles "Parnellism and Crime." , The gravamen of tlieso charges was that Parnell ' and ■. other Irish leaders', were! sincere in their, condemnation, of agrarian crime, and they were based op a series of letters sold to. '"The Times" by.. a, certain Pigott.. In one of these ietters Mr. Parnell wrote that Mr. Burke, who was murdered in Phoenix Park, had only got his, deserts. ' Under cross-examination Pigott broke down, and confessed that the letters were forgeries. The commission cleared Parnell and the other Irish members of the graver'charges, but considered their complicity in much of the lawlessness of the. Land League proved. .... , From T'B6B Sir Robert Anderson held an, appointment' at",tbri Home Officers adviser, in matters, relating to political crime, and from, 1838 he was head of the Criminal Investigation Department, which position he resigned in 1901. His publications include "Side-lights on Home Rule." ,