The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-23
The "Times" Investigations.

LONDON. October 22.--The commits
sion, appointed to investigate the
charges made by the Times against Irish
members of Parliament, opened this
morning. Sir Charles Russell, leading
counsel for Parnell, applied for the re-
lease from Wexford Prison of William
Redmond. Justice Hammer, president
OF the commission, said the same course
would be adopted with Redmand as in
the case of John Dillon. His release
must not be construed to mean he had
been grsnted immunity from imprison-
ment. He would be set free only under
strict conditions. These would not al
low his taking any part in public life
and would compel him to hold himself
STRICTLY PRISONER ON PAROLE.
Sir Charles Russell intimated that for
the present he would not insist upon his
application for Redmond's release. A
discussion then ensued upon the length
of time the court should sit weekly.
Counsel for both sides concurred in
proposal to hold sessions four days,
every week day except Saturday, and
| asked counsel to expedit the proceedings.
Acknowledgement Webster opened the
case for the Times. He promised to give
| the court the fullest information in the
| Times power regarding the source OF
evidence against the Irish party, which
the Times published. He would not
treat the case as having any thing to do
| with the
| uEp1rs op DFMERrrs oF HOME PILE
or any supposed burning Irish ques-
ton. The inquiry was strictly into the
specific charges made in the O'Donnell
action against the Times, and he would
be careful not to introduce questions
beyond the charges. The attorney
general then proceeded to review tee
Times articles on Parnellism and crime,
going over the old ground. The
general public was not admitted. Par
nell and numerous other Nationalist
members of Parliament were present.
1t would be shown, said Webster,
that many of the men mentioned in the
| Times particulars have personally taken
part in crimes of the worst kind, while
with scarcely any exception, the per-
sons mentioned had never denounced
the outrages or crimes. Owing to the
failure of the officers of the National
League to comply with the commits
slon's order regarding the discovery of
bank books, the Times counsel had
been unable to shape their case as they
had expected, still, even without the
bank books, they would prove that
money had been bald by the League to
men appointed for the actual
commission of acts of violence
and crimes. A few of the men
thus connected were with the American
League and we're provided with monev
from the funds obtained in Ireland.
From the outset of the Land Leagues
existence, and since the formation of
| the National League Parnell and his
COLLEAGUES had been intimately asso-
ciated with the Irish-Americans who
were advocates of dynamite, and re-
markable evidence would be produced
to prove this connection and to show
also that an extraordinary
NUMBER OF UNTRAoED CRIMES
were due to the Indictment of tn.
leagues. Referring to the letters al
legged to inplicate Parnell and Others
in the crimes, Webster promised to
produce before the commission all the
| letters which had been mentioned in
the trial of O'Connell's cass. He then
recounted his story of the leagues con-
nection with the Agarian agitat-
ions, and showed how they were
related to Fenianism. He recited
instances where DaYitt, Deroy, Welsh
Eagan, Brennan and Matthew Harris
had held communications with the
Parnellite party, and declared they
were linked to that party by common
interests and aims The Attorney
General quoted from speeches of the
Nationalist leaders from the year 1879
EDWARDS. When court adjourned for
the day, Webster was apparently only
small way advanced in the presenta-
ton of his case. The vaguene5s and
general character of his statements left
the impression that the Times has no
absolute proof of the truth of its
charges. Instead of producing the evil
dence that Parnell and his associates
were accomplices before or after the
fact with the Phoenix Park murderers,
he Will attempt to justify the Times ac-
cusation by raking up outrages at
lfributed to members of the League and