Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-14
Beautiful Specimens Of British
Justice as Practiced in
Ireland.
Sentence Pronounced in the
Castle, the Courts Merely
Issue the Decree.
The Efforts to Break Down the
League and Smirch the
Leaders.
An Interesting Review OF Irish
Affairs, Unoolored by British
CensoIs.
Special Dispatch to THE BBE,

Special Dispatch to THE BEE.
New YORK, March 13.-Patrick
Egan, former treasurer of the Irish
land league, arrived to. day. Asked
the name of the vessel on which he
arrived and the port from which he
sailed, he asked to be excused answer.
Ing, as to do 80 would give q clue to
private matters. Esan says the pub.
locations here respecting his escape
from Doblin are entirely without
foundation.
Egan, In answer to questions, said:
"The chief purpose Of my visit is
commercial. I nave been long want
Ing to visit Chicago, 81. Louis, St.
Paul and other large exporting centers
In connection with the business of my
firm In Dublin, as we deal largely In
American -four, and my decision to
GENE here vas fastened by the urgent
request of Sheridan that I should
give evidence In the extradition pro
ceedings pending, and also by strong
letters from Moonev, president of the
American land league, and other
friends. who pressed me to come to
America to give the leaders of the
movement here such information as Is
In my power regarding the situation
at home. Although at this moment
the national cause Is surrounded by
some difficulties, the prospect is
ENTIRELY HOPEFUL.
I have always held, with John
Mitchell, that the more England Is
obliged to coerce us, the more tightly
she is obliged to put on the screws,
the sooner will we attain our indepen.
dencs. The brutality practiced the
last couple of years by the liberals, or,
as O'Conneil truly called them, base,
bloody and brutal wings, has widened
the gulf bet England and Ire
land . hundred fold. ] am fismlycon-
WINGED that the present stateof things
must result before long In the attain.
re-. BY the Ir:sh pscrle If rome
measure of national self-government.
As . matter of course the government
would be wanting in its duty If it did
not do everythir g possible to breakup
THE ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY
and convict its members, provided 1t
acted fairly and squarely, but the
whole course adopted towards the men
under arrest has been, to my mind,
simply strocious. They arrested a
number of men whom they believed
to belong to the Fenian organization
and marched them Into the castle
yards before windows behind which
were a number of wretched people
who were thus able to arrange their
identifications and their stories. The
prisoners have been kept In close con-
finement without an opportunity of
communicating with their families or
arranging defense Every means has
been used to spread terror. The re-.
suit Is the defense has been a mere
scramble, provided In come cases by
private subscriptions and in others by
money scraped up by their unfortu
nate relations. 1t Ia currently ru.
mored in Dublln that a certain magis-
trate who took an active part In the
Investigations will receive 20, 900
pounds and a governorship of a colony
of his lsbors secure ten convictions.
Not a penny of the land league money
was aver supplied for the purpose of
conspiracy. On the contrary, the
money was expended in
PREVENTING oUTRAGEs
to the extent of sending men to lo-
c~alities where there might be danger
of attempts against landlords. Amongst
those who owe their preservation to
the Lau,d League is Lord A,dilaun,
formerly Sir Arthur Guinness. But
for Its protection he would have fallen
a Victim to his harshly treated ten.
ants. The game of the castle officials
is to connect thu Land League with
the commission of outrages, and thus
damage the national party. I am In
formed leading csstla officials said
they would spend $4,000 to hang
Egan."
OF THE Packet JURY SYSTEM
Egan says: SIN capital CASES the pris-
oner has twenty challenges, the
crown an unlimited fright Of chal-
lengs. The prisoner soon exhausts
his twenty, and As each Catholic.
Liberal Presbyterian, Methodist oil
Quaker Is called, the crown orders
him to stand aside, and by this process
select a jury of twelve tories. Will
a jury Of this kind, a prosecuting
Judge and a well coached battalion 0,
brlbsd testimony, the castle can !
they so desire convict with certainly
Cardinal McOabe or Bishop McEvil,
are not admitted at the castle. On
of the off cials made the admission t
myself that
HYEEs WAS INNOCENT,
that they now know the real murdere
Is Doutsghy, bur that having hange
Hynes for IL they do not want TO ope.
up the case again. Beyond a douh
four others Walsh, Myles, joyce
Poff aud Barrstt-Wers innocent q
the crimes for which they suffered
The charges against Sheridan or
absolutely ridiculous, Foster repsate
In the commons that Sheridan WI
constantly going back and forth fror
me Ia Paris TO the outrage mongers
the west of Ireland. AS a matter q
fact Sheridan left Ireland fc