THE DEATH OF PIGOTT.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 102, 5 March 1889, Page 2

THE DEATH OF PIGOTT.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright I PER UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION. \ London, March 1. In the course of an interview today Mr Parnell stated that the expenses in defending the . charges brought by The Times against him had amounted to £50,000. "Before The Times -Parneil Commission to-day, Messrs Lewis, Labouchere, Campbell, McCarthy, and Sala gave evidence in support of the cons fession made by Figott. Sir Charles Kussell, on behalf of Mr Parnell, applied to the Commissioners to make an interim report of their decision regarding the letters. Sir E. E. Webster strongly objected to this, and urged that the Commissioners should not communicate their deliberations until all the evidence as to the alleged foul conspiracy, had been completed. Sir James Hannen, tKe president, announced that the Commissioners would give their decision on the point on Thursday' next, Sir P. E. Webster then proceeded with the general charges, aud submitted evidence in support of his allegation that Patrick Ford, editor of the Irishman, had remitted large sums of the money to the Land League for the purpose of promoting outrages. March 2. It is now asserted that Pigott, under the name of Boland Ponsonby, had been arrested in an hotel in the city of Madrid, whereupon he asked leave to enter his bedroom to fetch his hat, and taking a revolver from a bag which he had with him, shot himself dead, the bullet entering his mouth and death being almost instantaneous. March 3. Houston has tendered a written statement to the Commission, but the contents are not yet known, as the reading of the. document was poatooned. .