The Times-Parnell Commission
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.
1 PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [
London, May 3
To-day the cross-examination of Mr Parnell was coutinued before the Special Commission. Mr Parnell admicted that the statement made by Lim in the House of Commons on January 7th, 1881, to the effect that secret societies had ceased to exist in Ireland, was intended to deliberately mislead the House as to his views, owing to the rejection of Forater'a Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. He undoubtedly had wished to mislead the House, but he feared it had failed, as the Act had since beeu applied. His statement wa» a gross exaggeration and not founded on fact. He intended to exaggerate in order to produce an impression of the influence of the National League. (This admission created a tremendous sensation.) He assumed that some of the books of the Land League were in possession of Egan, but the cash book, the letter books, and the ledgers had disappeared. !Sir James Hannen said he attached great importance to the fact that the books had been lost, and Mr Parnell promised to try aud recover them.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 129, 7 May 1889, Page 3
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