Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-25
LORD LEITRTM.
His Death the Penalty for q Dishon.
ored HOme-The outrage that Led
to Deliberate vengeance Two Of
HIS Stay ers Now Safe i'm Asn"rtca.

ouidSe, VI WAS III q DARK prO1uct OF pSTS IN al
yengeanceT is a question which has beea mach
discussed and hitherto not satisfactorily set
tied. The noble Lords relations with his ten
anus gave warrant for either hypothesis, and
eacn tnereO1 found numerous supporters. Yes
terday there came into the possession of the
Herald information of character which
sweeps away the presumption that land trou-
bleS had anything to do with his taking Off
and goes far to prove that his death resulted
from the fierce resentment which sought to
avenge dishenOred home. The inform INT is
a relative OF the two men who were concerned
in the death of the Earl of Leitrim, and WAC
are now, he says, safe in America, technical
~, no doubt, within reach of the extradition
and beyond the potent and far-reaching sway
of British gold. Only one other party, he says,
had anything to do with the shooting Of Lord
Leitrim, and as his security is not yet so per-
fectly assured, he makes his communication
with some reserve. He himself left Ireland
when quite boy, and has not been there for
tWenty-Seven years.
He has memories, however, of some of its
worst days of landlord sway and autocratic
tyranny of dispoSsessed tenants, of prOfigate
and, not having known any of the amelipta-
tons OF these evils, is in quick sympathy with
what he would doubtless still call the will
into a strain of passionate, natural eloquence,
avOwing that he would, without ruth or mer-
cy, kill the highest official in the land il h.
should be guilty of violating his home; There
was nothing agrarian in this" he said; there
was no organization three men, and only three
men, had anything to do with it, and TWO OF
them are where British gold can never bring
them back. When asked for his reaSOii
touching the motive which led 10 the killing of
Lord Leitrm, he drew letter from his pocket
from which he permitted the reporter to copy
all hat bore upon the subject. He made tue
condition, however, that dates and names o.
persons should be omitted, and also ma hes of
places of incOnSiderable extent, but permitted
a Tree reference to large towns like Liverpool
and Glasgow, believing that they would afford
no clew to the police authorities. The letter,
which is written in rather Indifferent hand,
is not remarkable for photographed eXactneSS
ner precise structure, BUTT at least points very
explicitly to the motive OF what society calls
crime and what these men call strict and
stern justice. 1t runs as follows, no attempt
being made to improve its diction or its Or
thOgraphy
DEAR Cousin -Before this reaches YOU
there will be news of the death of the ould
over much. You know who L name -.
His times up and passed. Nor he didn't die in
his bed either, but just in the bed he made for
many a hundred and thousand of his own
came over from the . (their p place sce q bust.
messy Of Liverpool more nor fore months ago.
pose you weren't aware that - neece -
died at last harvest, and - says as
how he thinks ne sent you word, but isn't
anything since her death. She went against
his viii the day she TUX the big wages from the
ould varmlnt.weil, at any rate she died poor
euOuSu, pour IuluS, anu me cnllu uleu a1Or6
her. and ever since hen -- has his blood
up, and no wonder. God help him, for many's
the time he would lie awake of nights just
phinkin of it all, and so he came over niuISeif
and and they bOtht lodgings in -
for over fore weeks. and then went off 10 -
and saw IS brother for week and then
left. 1can't give you any of The partiklers of
he Ould varminlfs death, but may be you'u
heer it from their own lips afore long and the
death of the Driver-that cud not be helped
and the, agent that was with them both, as
prayerIm touId. SO you see the law is 0iferin'
CRATE sums OF money for Information, but
there's nobody going to get it, for men can't
inform much on themselves you know. They'll
Taste difficulty, and maybe they go by elias
gov, in Scotland, and Maybe they'll so by
The niece" said the informant of the
writer-"t that accounts for it all that was the
pivot upon which the whole thing turned. The
land question never entered into it," 1t vii,
be observed that in the above letter the name
of the Earl of Leitrim is never mentioned,
the reference always being to the Ould vii
lain or 1.-THE old varmint." This fact was
Ropted out 6y the Hrad and
ing that letter he had received another, i'm
which that matter was fixed beyond doubt
a letter which contained 1.-The head work." as
ne put It, and in which, in fact, the Earl of
Leitrim's death was planned. He was asked
if he would not be willing to give publicity TO
this document also, but this, he said, he could
party involved was assured beyond any pos.
>ibe doubt. For the other TWO he had no ap-
prehenSion whatever. Their escape without
any difficulty or detention he attributed TO the
fact that they had not lived in Ireland. rhey
were not all engaged in agrarian pursuits, Du
were active workers among The masses of onH
Of the large English industrial communities.
The dishOnors however, which had Def allen
member OF their family ranked in their
breasts, and their plan of retributiOn brough
them to Ireland. There, with the aid of a third
q nj no mfr
ceeded in their terrible and unflinching pur
pose.
Their deed was denounced as murder and
retributiOn. They did not account it any
worse than what has been justified ere now as
"Smlting the smiter with the scimitar.'' The
Leitrim and his companions the informant OF
the writer could not communicate, but he said
that no obstacle stood in the way of their es-
hey Were ed at London by
came by that way and the other by Glasgow.
One arrived in Boston and the other in New
s dork the the latter Landing first BOTH have
ceeded. II have been with them, and they
are now where they cannot be reached; nor
do believe, from the sentiments expressed by
the press OF New York, that they would ever
be given up"
Are you quite sure that the third party is
not IN custody in !reland?" quered the re-
not only not in custody. but not in Ireland.
Finally the person who supplied the above in
formation assured the Herald representative
that as soon as the safety Of that party was
beyond all doubt land he intimated that it
would not be long until it was so) he would
cheerfully supply further details, and would
place the document containing what he called
the head work at the disposal Of the Herald
readers.
LYDIA SHERMAN, THE DERBY (CT) POS
oNER, preserved to the last the cool unconcern
which enabled her to put three husbands and
seven children out of the way before she was
discovered, and died in the role of the peni.
tent Christian she represented during her con-
fnement. Though over so years of age, Mrs
Sherman did not go into the wholesale arsenic
business until about thirteen years ago, when
the New York police officer, with whom She