Daily globe., 1878-05-21
LORD LEIrRIM.

Outrage That Lead to Jeliberate Ten-
0eance--Isro of Hts 6tayers Nos0 Safe In
Anserioa.
The New York Herald has an interview
with a gentleman who processes to have
Lord Leitrim are now in this country. The
informant is q relative of two of the men
who were concerned in the death of the Earl
of Leitrim, and who are now, he says, safe
in America, technically, no doubt, within
reach of the extradition treaty, but prac-
tically beyond its operation 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 perfectly assured
he makes his communication with some re-
serve. When asked for his reason touching
the motive which led to the killing of Lord
Leitrim, he drew letter from his pocket,
from which he permitted the reporter to
copy all that bore upon the subject. He
made the condition however, that dates and
names of persons should be omitted, and
also names of places of inconsiderable
extent, but permitted free refer
ence to large towns like Liverpool and Glas-
gov, believing that they would afford no clue
to the police authorities. The letter, which
is written in rather Indifferent hand, is not
remarkable for photographed exactness nor
precise structure, but it at least points very
explicitly to the move of what society calls
crime, and what these men call strict and
stern justice. It runs as follows, no attempt
being made to improve its diction or its
photography:
DEAR COUSIN: Before this reaches you
| there will be news of the death of the old vii
lain whom you aud some others don't love over
| much. You know who name. His times
up and passed. Nor he didn't die in his bed
either, but just in the bed he made for many
hundred and thousand of his own poor
starved victims. and young came
over from the - (their place of business) of
Liverpool more nor fore months ago. -j just
forced -- to accompany him. suppose you
weren't aware that IS neece - died at
sent you word, but isn't shure - in truth, he
isn't shure of scarce anything since her death.
She went against his will the day
she TUX the big wages from the ould varmint-
WELL at any rate she diea poor enough, poor
thing, and the child died afore her. and ever
since then - has his blood up, and no won
der. God help him, for many's the time he
would be awake of nights just thinking of it
all, and so he came over himself and - they
both took lodings in - for fore weeks, and
then went off to-and saw Is brother
for week and then left. 1 can't give you any
of the particulars of the ould varmint's DEATH
bnt maybe you'll 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 they had not
none of them time to say much prayer I'm
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 sail
this week if possible, for there isn't the laste
difficulty, and maybe they'll go by Glasgow, in
Scotland, and maybe they'll go by Liverpool.
The purpose of going by Liverpool is
clew the recipient of the letter did not wish
its publication. But here was the motive
stated with distintness: "--'s neice, -,
died at - last harvest. She went against
his will the day she took the big wages from
the old varmint. Well; at any rate she died
poor enough, poor thing, and the child died
afore her," There was the tale told in few
words, in which resentment and sympathy
we're unconsciously mingled. Was it not
then in the showing of this letter
| another case of the 'sinexpiable
wrong, the unutterable shame?'' Or
was tbs wrong, after all, inexpiable? On the
one hand were the dead child, innocent of
all wrong, the dead peasant GIRL slain by
the intense agony of her shame at a time
when her days should have been brightest;
on the other the dead earl stricken in the
autumn of his days when the honors and fair
fame of good man would have attained
their full fruition, and the dead driver and
dead agent inundated by the very necessity
of this deadly vengeance.
"The NIECE" said the informant of the
writer-"that accounts for it all; that was
the pivot upon which the whole thing turned.
The land question never entered into it. It
will be observed that in the above letter the
name of the Earl of Leitrim is never men
toned, the reference always being to sthe
ould villain,' or the ould varmint.'' - This
fact was pointed out by the Herald repre-
sentative, and in reply his informant said
that before receiving that letter he had receiv-
ed another in which that matter was fixed be-
yond doubt-a letter which contained ..the
head work. as he 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 not consent to do un-
til the security of the third party involved
was assured beyond any possible doubt.
For the other two he had no apprehension
whatever. Their escape without any diff
Guilty or detention he attributed to the fact
that they had not lived in Ireland. They
were not all engaged in agrarian pursuits,
but were active workers among the masses of
one of the large English industrial commu-
mites. The dishonor, however, which had be-
fallen a member of their family ranked in
their breasts, and their plans of retribution
brought them to Ireland. There, with the
aid of the third party, resident of the
country, they succeeded in their terrible and
unfinching purpose.
''Are you quite sure that the third party is
not in custody in Ireland % quiried the re-
porter, and he received the reply that he was
not only not in custody but not in Ireland.
Land Sales IN RenvtEle County.
To the Editor of the Globe:
REDWOOD FALLS, Mimi, May 13, 1885,
Sale of school and internal improvement
lands for Redwood county, came off here
yesterday, and was very largely attended,
drawing the largest crowd ever assembled
here. Competition was limited to few tracts.
About 81 900 acres were offered. of which
$4,000 acres were bid off ut prices ranging
from $5 to $13,75-averaging about SIS. 70
per acre.
Tomorrow the sale for Renville county
occurs at Beaver Falls, and great rush il
antiCipated, There will ha rnnch cornnot;