THE PARNELL CASE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2591, 19 February 1889, Page 2

THE PARNELL CASE.

GREAT SENSATION. l_ltV ELECTRIC TKI.KCRAPIT.—COI-YHKJHT. I London, Fobrn ivy 14. Befohe the Tiines-Parnell Commission Mr Soitnes, London solicitor for tht: Times, produced a number of letters which h. j . stated had been obtained from tlit; clerics of the Laud League. He also produced seven letters signed by Mr Farnell. The body of these letters is supposed to have, been written by Mr Gampbell, MrParnelPs private secretary, Eight letters written by Egan, which the Times obtained from Pigott, and a letter written by Byrne acknowledging the receipt of a hundred pounds from Parnell, were also produced. The Times, he said, had paid £3000 for these letters. A number of forged letters were received from America, but were not used. Mr Flanagan, son of the Irish Judge, and a member of the literary staff of the Times, was the author of the articles on " Parnellism and Crime." February 15. Mr Soames, deposed that Pigott had informed him that Mr Henry Labouchere had offered him (Pigott) the sum of £1000 if he would go into the witness box and swear that he had forg< d the letters which the Times had published in the articles on " Parnellism and Crime." This evidence caused a great sensation in Court. The witness also testified to having received information that Pigott was seen in the company of Lewis, Parnell, Labouchere, and Egan's agent at the residence of Labouchere, and that Pigott had shortly after the interview disclosed the result of the meeting to the Times' authorities. The Times, Mr Soames added, hid not promised Pigott, any money for the information divulged, nor had they p.ud him any, but hn admitted that the proprietors would not see the man i uined. Mr Micdoiiuld, the manager of the Times, stated that Parnell's letter had been offered to the Marquis of Ilartington, who held the portfolio of Board of Control for India in the Gladstone Ministry when Lord Cavendish was murdered, for £1000, but ho refused the offer. The Times then purchased the letters, along with those written by Egan, for the sum of .£1790