THE PARNELL CASE.
(BY ELECTUIC THr.EflltAl'U.— COI'TIIICUT). London, May 22. To-day the examination of Mr William O'Brien was continued. He stated that he had never been a sworn member of any Fenian Society, though he had never made any pretence of loyalty until 1885. Witness also stated that illegality was inbred in the Irish people as the result of oppression. He stated that his paper, United Ire'and, had never incited outrage. Mr O'Biien declared that personally he had not been connected with the commission of crime directly or indirectly. Boycotting without intimidation, he thought, was quite justified and constitutional. He admitted that he had advised the Mitchelstown tenants to light for their homes. He justified resistance to evictions, and said his paper, United Ireland, although it had never denounced secret societies, had tiied to win young men from them,
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Waikato Times, Volume 2632, Issue 2632, 25 May 1889, Page 2
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139THE PARNELL CASE. Waikato Times, Volume 2632, Issue 2632, 25 May 1889, Page 2
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