The Times- Parnell Commission
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, May 7. William O'Brien, M.P., and E. Harrington, who were released from prison in order to attend before the Times- Parnell Commission, arrived in Courtthis morning. Mr Haraigton was dressed in prison clothes, having refused to put on ordinary dress. Westport, May 8. A resident of Waimangaroa, named Ewart, took action against Griffen, master of Waimangaroa school, for an assault in severely beating his son, a pupil, at the school. After a lengthy hearing the master was fined £1 and costs, the magis trate considering that the punishment was unmerciful. The cross-examination of Mr Parnell was continued. Witness explained that in the year 1881 a speech delivered by him, and quoted by the Attorney-General, referred to the Ribbon organisation. He said he had never heard that the League had paid £100 towards the defence of Moonlighters at Cork in 1881, but upon the Attorney-General reminding him that the subject had been discussed in Parliament in 1882, witness said he had heard the defence was paid for by League cheque in the case of Connell who shot Leary ; and he admitted personally paying for the defence of some men charged with the committal of serious crime. Re examined by Sir C. Russell, the witness stated that Ford advocated and collected funds for dynamite pur- [ poses in 1883 and 1884, but he veered round in 1884. He was afraid that the outrages were the work of the lower class of Fenians and Ribbonmen. Chicago, May 7, Doctor Cronin, a friend of Major Lecaron, the British Goyernment spy, who gave evidence before the Commission, 'is missing, and he ie sups posed to have been murdered. An empty packing case was found near the cemetery, upon which were marks of blood and tufts of hair, believed to belong te Cronin. It is suspected he has fallen a victim to Irish vengeance in consequence of Lecaron betraying the secrets pf the party.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 130, 9 May 1889, Page 2
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