PARNELL V. THE TIMES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1891, 14 May 1889, Page 1

PARNELL V. THE TIMES.

London, May 9. The friends of Dr Cronin suppose him to have been murdered to prevent disclosures as to misappropriation of League funds, Sir C. Russell apologised to Sir J. Hannon for his oversight in not having documents in readiness necessary to enable tho cross-examination of Mr Parnell to go on, Archbishop Walsh’s examination was continued. Ho gave it as his experience that the League had diminished crime in Ireland, Secret societies started after Parnell’s arrest were now virtually extinct in rural districts. He said that ha abominated the articles in the Irishman and disapproved of many of those in United Ireland, and he admitted fie had never denounced boycotting, but considered intimidating by force most reprehensible, , He disapproved Parnell’s advice to the people to shun men who took farms from which tenants had been evicted. He also objected to publishing a black list of persons who. refused tp join the League. Sir O, Russell’s fee for defending thje Parnellites is 10,000 guineas. May 10, Before the Times-Parnell Commission to-day Father Considine’was examined, and stated that the National League had never brought to fustics any persons who had committed crime, He admitted saying in 1880 “ That every wretch whp refused to join the League deserved tp go cold dead to damnation,” Father Oonsidine then went on to describe the distressed condition of tho tenants living in Mayo, and said that their houses were worse than the kenn»'s and stables of wealthy landlords. No attempt whatever had been made to alleviate their misery, and neither Lord Dillon, who is an extensive landowner in Mayo, nor his predecessor, had ever seen one of the 4500 of their tenants on the estate. Father Oonsidine admitted having encouraged the priests to become members of the League, and that he had urged them to maintain its legality. The suppression of the League had, he said,, caused a revival of the secret societies, Ha disapproved of boycotting and shunjning men as if they were lepers, May. 11. The theory at first set up that Dr Cronin,l!a friend of Major LeOaronV, had been murdered at Chicago has been abandoned.