MR DAVITT.
A few days before Mr Michael Davitt's relegation to prison, Mr ParneU crossed the floor of the House of Commons and asked the Speaker for an order to the gallery set apart for distinguished visitors. "For whom?" "For Mr Michael Davitt." The Speaker raised his eyebrows,., but gave the order, not unobserved by the Home Secretary. That astute individual sent for the chief police detective, Mr Howard Vincent, and pointed Davitt out to him. ' 'As you may possibly have something to do with that gentleman yonder," he said, "just take a seat by his side and make his acquaintance." An English Radical member, however, who beheld the unsuspecting Fenian in such strange company, and guessed what had happened, took occasion to stroll into the gallery, "Ha, ■davitt, how are you? I daresay you - don't know your neighbor. Distinguished v men should become acquainted with one another. Mr Michael Davitt. Mr Howard "Vincent, chief detective of police ! "
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Temuka Leader, Issue 551, 12 July 1881, Page 3
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158MR DAVITT. Temuka Leader, Issue 551, 12 July 1881, Page 3
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