Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-14

NEW YORK, March 13.-Patrick Egan, the
/ former treasurer of the Irish lard league,
arrived to-day. Being asked the name of
the vessel on which he arrived and the
| port from which he sailed, he asked to be
excused, answering, as to do so would give
| clue to private matters Egan SAYS that
publications here respecting his escape
| from Dublin were entirely without founda-
| ton. Egan, in answer to questions, said
that the chief purpose of my visit is com
| mercial. [ have been long wanting to visit
| Chicago, St. Louis, ST. Paul and other
| large flour exporting cities, in connection
with the business of my firm in Dublin,
as we deal largely in American flour,
and my decision to come here was fastened
| by the urgent request of Sheridan that 1
| should give evidence in the extradition
| proceedings, and also by strong letters
from Mooney, the resident Americans of
| the land league and other friends, who
pressed me to come to America to give
| the leaders of the movement here such in
formation as 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 al
ways held, with John Mitchell, that the
more England is obliged to coerce US, the
more tightly she is obliged to put on the
screws, and the sooner will we attain our
independence. The brutality practiced the
past two years by the iberals-or, as
O'Connell truly called them, ''the base.
bloody and brutal Whigs"-has widened
| the gulf between England and Ireland
one hundred fold. l am firmly convinced
that the present state of things must
result, before long, in the attainment by
| the Irish people of some measure of ma
| tional self government. As a matter of
course the government would be wanting
in its duty if it did not do everything pos
sible to break up assassination and con-
spiracY, and to convict its members, pro-
vided it acted fairly and squarely, but the
whole course adopted toward men now I'M
der arrest has been, to my mind, simply
| atrocious.
| They arrested number of men whom
| they believed belonged to the
| Fenian organization, and marched
them to the castle yard.
before window behind which were a num-
Der of wretched people who were thus able
to arrange their identifications and their
stories. The prisoners had been kept in
close confinement without an opportunity
| of communicating with their families or
arranging a defense. Every means had
been used to spread terror. The result is
| the defense has been a mere scramble,
| provided in some cases by private sub
scriptions and in others by money scraped
up by their unfortunate relations.
It is currently rumorsd in Dublin that
a certain magistrate who took an active
part in the Investigations will receive
100000 and the goysrnorship of a colony,
| if his labors secure ten convictions. Not
a penny of the land league money was
ever supplied for the purpose of conspira-
cy. On the contrary the, money has been
expended in preventing outrages to
an extent of sending men to
localities where there might be
danger of attempts against landlords.
Among those who owe their preserva-
ton to'the land league, is Lord Ardilann,
formerly Sir Arthur Ginners. But for its
protection he would have fallen victim
to his harshly treated tenants. The game
of the castle officials is to connect the land
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and thus to damage the national party. 1
am informed that leading castle officials
said they would spend $4,000 to hang
Eyan.
OF the packed jury" system, 1lgan says:
In capital cases the prisoner has twenty
challenges and the crown an unlimited
right to challenge. The prisoner soon ex-
haGsts his twenty, and when each Catholic,
Liberal, Presbyterian, Methodist or Qua
ker is called, the crown orders him to
stand aside, and by this process selects a
jury of twelve tories. With jury of this
kind, the prosecuting judge and we'll
coached battalion, bribed in testimony,
the castle can, if it so desire, convict with
perfect certainty.
Cardinal McCabe or Bishop McEwily
have now admitted at the castle to one of
the officials, and made the admission to
myself that Hynes was hanged in wrong;
that they now know the real murderer was
Dougherty, but that having hanged Hynes
they no not want to open up the case again.
Beyond doubt the four others, Walsh,
Myles Joyce, Paffe and Barrett, were inno-
cent of the crimes for which they suffered.
The charges against Sheridan are abso-
lutely ridiculous. Forster repeated in the
commons that Sheridan was constantly 60
ing back and forth from Men to Paris to
outrage the mongers in the west of Ireland.
As matter of fact Sheridan left ireland
for Paris in October, 1881, and has only
returned there once since. That visit was
made in December, 1881, when he was of
course disguised, as a warrant for
his arrest had been issued. His OBJ
ject then was to investigate and
harmonic certain alleged difficulties in
connection with the ladies' land league.
l then gave him e10O, helf of which he
gave Rev. Mr.. Lawler, of Valencia, for the
relief of evicted tenants in great need.
He also gave other sums to evicted ten
ants, and gave the vouchers for all expend-
itures.
In April, 1881, Richard Pigott wrote me
he had been offered $500 by the
castle officials to publish state
ment in his paper, The Irishmon,
alleging misappropriation of land league
funds. He said he needed money and
| threatened to accept the offer unless sent
him $500. Of course refused, and defed
him to do his worst. subsequently
| pamphlet, the manuscript of which was in
| PiCOtt's Handwriting. was SET m in TYNE for