LORD MOUNTMORRES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1862, 7 March 1889, Page 4

LORD MOUNTMORRES.

The Now York World, Dec. 29, 1888, says ; —The examination of Lady Monnttnorrss before the present London Commission recalls lo mind the ciicumstances attending the death of that peer. Tbs real facts in conoection with the killing of this man have never boon given to the public, although well known in certain Irish circles. The bringing of Lady Mountmorres to give evidence before the Commission was done for melo-drainatic effect and to further stain and blacken the Irish cause before mankind, which is the evident purpose of those who are controlling the management of this mock court of justice. The ostensible purpose for which the British Parliament created this special Commission was to examine and inquire into the relations said to exist between the Irish Public Provincial movement and the Secret Irish National organisation which caused the death of the Brilisb Secretaries in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Not having material enough to approach this domain they have sot up a systematic course of slandering the Irish race by exhibiting the unfortunate vict.raa of their own misrule and reopening every possible event that could aid them in their purpose of lowering the Irish cause. The evidence of :Lady Mountmorres is nd illustration of this vile object, and that unhappy lady’s grief and sorrow, which she could not restrain on the witness stand, wheu she was forcibly reminded of the loss of her husband, was a trump card to play in this game of slander.

The real cause of Lord Mountraorres’s death was his infamous private life. Allied to this be was a tyrant, and took an active part in the landlord movement. A short time before his death Lord Mountmorres, inflamed <vith drink, visited the cabin of an Irish peasant to whose daughter he had made infamous overtures. On entering the cabin he found this young girl and a small boy the only occupants. The frightened girl seeing him enter looked herself in an adjoining room. Mounlmorres quickly despatched the boy on an errand, and bursting iu the door pursued the Irish maiden into the chamber. The girl's struggles and screams fortunately brought assistance. Mountmorres succeeded in escaping, or he would have then and then fallen a victim to the outraged farmer, who was hurrying to the rescue. A similar but an accomplished crime on another victim had brought back to Ireland the brother of the outraged girl, who had just arrived in the neighborhood at the time of this occurrence. Filled with vengeance he heard of this fresh attempt at the outrage and was on the trail of the titled libertine. On Saturday, Sept. 25, 1880, Lord Mountmorres attended a meeting of magistrates (held in the Court-House, Clonbur, a small town in Connaught) summoned to take measures in opposition to the Land League, then beginning to spread, ami growing very numerous over the country. After regaling himself with a full botlla which ho brought with him, Mourtmorres drove home by himself on an outside car. lie left Clonbur about 8 o’clock in the evening. When he reached a place culled Rushenn, about a mile from his home, he was stopped by the avenger, who was on the alert. The young peasant reproached him with his many infamies. Mountmorres enraged, struck (he youth and his wife, at the same time using vile language to him and his family. The young man responded by drawing a revolver and shooting down the tyrant and libertine. The horse, with the empty vehicle, arrived at Mountmorres’s mansion, gave the alarm, and the dead body of their master was found by bis servants on the side of the road. The face was blackened with gunpowder, showing how close to his person was hold the weapon which killed him.