THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1838, 8 January 1889, Page 4

THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

The Parnell Commission hearing' was resumed on the 27th. After! wrangling over the production of th« record of the outrages kept by Sergeant Gilhooly, of County Kerry, Sir James Hannen suggested that counsel on both sides should inspect the bookif they did not agree, then the judges should see it. Inspector Davis tes- J tified that there were inner circles of I the League which organise Fenians to j execute the League behests. His' informant was not in the pay of tb/e police, but was a member of t'ae League, who had participated in the work of the Inner Circle. On the 29th Inspector Crane gave evidence to the effect that wherever the league organisation started in Ireland outrages followed. Inspector Ftice deposed that he always understood Moonlighters executed the behests of the League. On tbe 30th Sir C. Russell, for the Parnellites, called the attention of Sir James Hannen to a placard announcing that men named Mitchell and Noah Eitzmaurice, who appeared as witnesses for tbe defence before the Commission, would address a public meeting. The President said the placard was unjustifiable, and he would serve notice on the firm publishing it. A land agent, Hussey, then testified that the tenants who paid their rents were secretly ordered not to pay at all, because they were afraid of being Bhot. There were no Moonlighters, secret societies, or outrages in County Kerry before the League was formed. On the Ist December it was seriously proposed by Mr Parnell's counsel to withdraw from the case until evidence directly against the League was produced, otherwise the dilatory tactics of the Times were such that the Parnell defence fund was likely to give out, and the case thereby fail. On December 6th, the Commission committed Molioy, who refused to Obey a subpoena to testify, to prison, until further ordered, and took the testimony of a laborer named. Burk'«j, who alleged that it was decided Vc a Branch League meeting at CLonbar that Lord Mountmorres f&ould be killed, and that witness w&s asked by a League member on the day of the assassination to take part in killing, and he refused. Then on the evening of the day of killing another member of the Leagu*? told witness that he expected*Lord Mountmorres would be put away that night. Witness afterwards told Sweeney, Mulroe, Fallow, and! Murphy, all members of the League, that he might assist them in doing away with Lord Mountmorres, but he suddenly missed them. Late in the night he saw Mulroe, who had been wounded in the head. Mulroe told, him that he had done away with Lord Mountmorres. On cross-examina-tion, witness said he could not swear that there was a branch of the League at Clonbar before the murder.