The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-21
VOL. XV.---NO. IL
MUST CUTIT SHORT
The Parnell Commission
Weary of 0utrages.
VERY rREsuprcED WITNESSES.
Giadstene's Amendment Defeated I'm
the Hease-feur Of hts
Members secede.

LoSnoS, Nov. N.--The rarnell COM
mission resumed It's sitting to-day.
Attorney General Webster, counsel
for the ffmes, complained OF the difh-
Guilty experienced in bringing wit
nesses from County Kerry. He called
the judges attention TO an article in
the Kerry Srntiael Edward Harring-
tons paper) which states that the
judges composing the parnell COM
mission were showing signs of measles
now although At the opening OF the
inquiry they appeared to be spotleSs.
The Judges were creatures Of con-
spiracy entered into by the govern
ment and the TSnses. and were mani
testify united in their prejudices. The
attorney general appealed 10 the court
to take action in the matter. as such
publications tended 10 defeat Justice
and amounted TO the grossest con-
tempt
Reid, in behalf OF Harrington, COM
planned that no notice of a charge of
This character had been given them.
and il was absolutely impossible to
make answer az present. lie asked
that the matter be adjourned until to-
morrow. Presiding Justice Hanncn
aud the attorney general agreed to
this, and the matter stood over.
The examination of witnesses was
resumed. Farmer Cuiloty Of Castle
island, County Kerry, testified that
because he served notices on tenants
in lSS2. two men visited him, One of
them struck him with spade and the
other shot him i'm the leg The leg
had to be amputated. He was after
wards boycotted.
On crosS-examination he said the
quarters of the nearest branch OF the
league was six miles distant from his
farm. He considered rents through
out Kerry too high. He denied that
the two men who attacked him were
relatives OF seryant-giri whom he
had wronged.
sPY's TESTIMONY.
Constable Mccarthy testified that
he searched the house OF man named
Mcmahon who was treasurer of a
branch OF the league, and found
number of papers.
Other witnesses from Kerry were ex-
amined, all OF whom attributed the
outragcs in that county TO the instiga-
ton OF the league. a laborer named
Williams testified that he had been
fired at by a captain of moonlighters,
and said that placards had been posted
in various places offering $500 TO any
one who would shoot him and his em-
ployer, who had taken an evicted
farm.
WORTHLESS WITNESSES.
On cross-examination, however.
none OF the witnesses succeeded in
connecting the league with any OF the
outrages they had referred to.
Sir Charles Russell then read an ar
ticle from the Kerry Sentinel, denounc-
ing the outrages.
Lydia Curtin was next called and de-
scribed the boycotting OF her family
and the murder OF her father.
Counsel for the Parnellites read a
circular issEed by the League, de-
nouncing the treatment OF Curtin.
Near the hour of adjournment, Mr..
Reid, in the absence of Sir Charles
Russell, appealed TO the opposing
counsel to bulk the oufrages TO which
they wished TO refer, and 20 cease CIV
ing such evidence in detail. The in
quiry threatened 10 last long enough
TO ruin anybody il the present method
was continued.
Sir Henry James declared that the
Times was equally anxious To hinit
time and expenditure.
Justice Hannen said there must be
am earnest effort to shorten the work
OF the commission. lie considered
that there had already been enough
detail of outrages, and other branches
of inquiry ought to be proceeded with