The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-07
0'DONNELL IN BAD OD0R.
THE PARNELLITES DEN OUNCE
HIS RECENT SUIT.

Nearly All the Letters Read at the
Trial Refuted by Mr.. Parnell as
Palpable orgeries-The Costs of the
Suit to the Times $4,000.
LONDON, July 6.-The Parnellites de-
nounce O'Donnell for the course he pursued
in his action against the Times. They sus-
| pect that lyman, the man known as mum
Der one" is the person from whom the
| Times got its information concerning the
league. In the lobbies of the house of com
mons to-day, the Irish members denied that
Mr., Parnell ever paid Byrne 9l0o. They
said the 9l00 given Byrne was in the shape
of check signed by Justin Mccarthy and
represented league subscriptions.
TONE OF THE PRESS.
| The general tone of the English press is
| against the policy of silence or of angry
| deniais III the treatment 10y the irish party
of the revelations in the trial of the ODon-
nell suit, The papers say this will not suf-
! flee The revelations call for disprOof,
either through jury or a parliamentary
| committee.
| The Post says that If such an investiga-
ton is not demanded even the English allies
| of the Parnellites will share the suspicion
! that the members of the Irish party are
| guilty of the charge made against them.
The daily NetOS treats the arguments pre-
sented by the Times counsel as clap-trap,
and says it is astonished at the profound
and eccentric gullibility displayed by the
court. 1t expresses the hope that it has
heard the last of the miserable fanaticism,
PARNELL's STATEMENT.
On the assembling of the house of com
mons to-day Mr.. Parnell rose to make an
| explanation concerning certain stat ments
made in connection with O'Donucll- Times
| trial. He said the upshot of the trial pre-
vented his testifying on oath, and therefore
| he would tender a statement to tho house
He declarsi that he never saw Patrick
! Egaus letter of Feb. a. 1851, which was
read at the trial with a view of showing
that the league instigated the Phoenix park
| murders.
| DECLARED A FORGERY.
| He was convinced that it was n forgery.
| The imputatiOn against the O'Learys was
false. In regard TO his letter dated simply
! Tuesday aud saying: 81 SEQ no objection TO
| your giving the amount asked for-there is
no Likelihood of what you apprehend hap
| penng" Mr. Parnel said that might be
genuine but he could not recollect it. To
| MIR. Egan's letter of October %, 1881, to
Carey saying, sent M. 9200
when YOU get to work give us the value of
Webster stated, the police found in Carey s
house Mr.. Parnel said that doubtless
genuine letters from Mr.. Egan were found
| there; but Mr.. Egan had never been
legally charged, and ne had sent a cable
gram denying the authorship Of the letters
attributed to him.
| ANOTHER REPUTATION.
Mr. ParnelI denounced as an absolute
forgery the letter which it was alleged he
wrote, and which, it was claimed, was
smugglad from KlImainham Jail to Mr.
| e an, urging him to immediate action and
to make it hot for old Forster He never
wrote, signed, saw or authorized the com
| municatiOn.
REITERATEs THE ASSERTION.
Mr.. Parnell then reiterated his assertion
that he had neither signed nor authorized
the letter dated May Is, 1882, which
bore what was alleged to be his signature
and which was published year ago. He
said he had not used a signature similar to
that one attached to this letter since 1879.
He mad adopted different style of sigma
ture. ["Ohl oh!o from the ministerial
benchesl
The letter of June 10, 1889, was also a
forgery.
The Byrne letter was doubtless genuine,
but he had never sent Byrne any money.
He had subscribed a small amount to the
| Byrne testimonial.
WOULD STAMP HIM AS A MURDERER.
"The great maio ity of the letters read
at the trial. Mr. Parnell continued "are
palpable forgeries. If they are credited it
must be supposed that | deliberately put
myself in the power Of murderer; that
was an accessory to the Phoenix park
murders, before and after the fact, and that
entered Kelmainham Jail desiring TO as
sassinate Forster The absurdity of the
whole ser es of letters with a few excep-
tions shows them to be forgeries"
Justin Mccarthy followed Mr.. Parnell
with an explanation of the statement that
he had given Byrne check for Gl00 He
| acknowledged that he gave a check to
Byrne to be anything but hard working
servant CT a society devoted to winning
home rule for Ireland.
The costs incurred by the Times
in defending the suit brought by
ODounell amount to $4,000 1t viii try
to make O'Donnell liable for the amount.
EFFEcTUALLY DISPOSED OF.
LONDON, July T, 5 A. M.-The Daily
Ne,Os says: MIR Parnells plain and frank
words effectually disposes of the absurd
charges made against him by dupes and
partisans He has done his duty by ex-
ploding before the house of commons and
the country fctiors which would scarcely
have deceived a well regulated nursery
"Sir X. f. Webster spent Wednesday in
making defamatory aspersions Of the gross
est kind, which no wholly declined to sup
port. Presently he and not Mr. Parne II,
will stand on trial, and if the house Of com
mons does not insist on probing the scandal
the people will know The reason why"
SUSPICIOUS OF THE TELEGRAPH.
The Daily Telegraph, discussing the
question whether Mr.. Parnell would be able
to obtain heavy damages if libel were
| proved, says: Those who think money OF
more value than character will be as unable
TO understood Mr.. Parnell's attitude as tho.e
whl set character above money. Both
alike perceiving that Mr Rarnell alone If
the libelled men refuses steldfastly
to take the course which no other
libelled man at the combined
instance of honor and interest has hesitated
10 take, will be forced TO the conclusion
that the charges under which he is
content to rest, dreadful as they are, must
be accepted as true.
The Times says "The Parnellite and
Gadstonian partisans may bluster as they
please, but it remains incredible that any
thing but onsciousuess Of its truth could
Induce any political party to sit inactive
under such antndictment."
PRoDDING UP PARNELL.
The Chronicle says: Thousands will ask
why does not Mr. PARCEL prosecute the
n. "A n l.