The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-22
The Editor Informs Justice Hammer That He
Is Ready to Assume the Responsibility ard
Is Immediately Assessed $500.
Irish Nationalist Think Their Liberal
Supporters q Trifle Lukewarm.
Another Sensation ia Whitachapel,a Drunk.
en- Woman Claiming TO Have Been Murder
ously Acknowledgement Cable News.
THE PARNELL COMMISSION.
An Irish Editor Airily Assumes Responsible


An Irish Editor Airily Assumes Responsible
ity, and Finds tho Price Very High.
LONDON, Nov. 21.-At the meeting Of the
Psrnell commission. to-day, Mr. Reid, counsel
for Mr.. Edward Harrington, stated that Mr..
Harrington did not choose to adopt the course
he had advised in relation TO the article abusing
the commission which had appeared in Harring-
toms paper, the Kerry Sentinel. Therefore he
[Mr. Reid was not in o position to say any
thing.
Presiding Justice Hammer asked Mr.. Harrlng-
ton II he had anything to say.
Mr.. Harrington replied that he had no state
mens to make, except that he would accept
responsibility for what appeared in bis paper.
The judges retired, and Mr.. Harrington con-
verssd unconcernedly with his brother Timothy
until their return. In ten minutes the judges
reappeared. and Judge Hammer said he regretted
that Mr.. Harrington had refused to adopt Mr..
Reid's advice. 1t would be wasting words to
indicate how serious was the contempt OF court
Of which his paper had been guilty. 1t was
necessary that the authority of the court should
be maintained, and, therefore,, such things must
be stopped. He then fined Mr.. Harrington t5O0.
The taking Of testimony was then resumed,
oa8 WIZ y SottOe
tails of the murder Of his father. After the
murder the Curtin family were boycotted, and
their male servants were compelled TO Leave
their service. On cross examination Curtin
testified that be was q member OF the league
whom it was first organized. His father was
vice-presidept Of . branch. The witness had no
reason to believe that the league was IMPLICATED
in the crimes against his family. Various
branches Of the league, he said, had denounced
the murder Of his father.
Nora EitZmAurica deposed that In June. 1887,
q letter signed by q man named Bowling,
secretary of Q branch of the league,
was received by her father request
ing him to attend q meeting. Her
father did not 60 to the meeting. After this
incident7 the peoples demeanor toward her
father changed and he obtained police protec-
ton. The witness gave in detail the facts In
connection with tho shooting Of her father while
he was on his way to attend the Listowel fair in
January.
On cr-oss-examination the witness stated that
her father and uncle had disagreed respecting
the farm on which her father resided. and the
people sided with her uncle. She knew that
the league had been suppressed in county
Kerry.
Council for tho Parnellites here read an arti-
Gle published in tie Kerry Sentinel, condemning
the murder OF FitZmeurice and regrettinx that
the league had been suppressed AID the pene-
fetal effects which arose from the organization
lost.
The fact that Mr.. Edward Harrington was
fined $500 by Justice Hammer to-day for con-
tempt OF court. was entirely due TO the Kerry
editors stubbornnsss. He not only did not
write the offensive article. but there is positive
proof. aside from his own statement, that he
did not know of its existence until it appeared
in the paper. Concerning the matter, MIR. Har-
rington said in the House. last evening: When
l read the article it actually made my ears tin
gle" Mr.. Harrington will make no effort to
evade the payment OF the fine By appeal or 9TH
erwise. and the money will probably be raised
by subscription among his friends, many of
whom have already expressed their willingness
TO contribute.