Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-21
WORLD VIKINGS.
Irish Witnesses Before the
Parnell Commission.
THE COUNTY KERRY OUTRAGES
Powderly's Iron Grip on the Knights
Barry Will Organize a
New Order.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |
LONDON, November 20.-The Parnell
Commission resumed its setting. to-day.
Attorney General Webster, counsel for
the Times, complained of the difficulty
experienced in bringing witnesses from
County Kerry. He called the judges
attention to an article in the Kerry
Sentinel Edward Harrington's paper,
which stated that the judges composing
the Parnell Commission were showing
signs of measles now, although at the
opening of the inquiry they appeared to
be spotless the judges were the creatures
of conspiracy entered into by the
Government and the Times, and were
manifestly unable to veil their prejudices.
The Attorney-G General appealed to the
court to take action on the matter, as
such publications tended to defeat JUS
tice and amounted to the grossest con-
mpt.
Reid, on behalf of Harrington, COM
planned that no notice of charge of this
character had been given them and it was
absolutely impossible to answer at pres
ent. He asked that the matter be ad-
journed until tomorrow.
Presiding Justice Hannen and the
Attorney General agreed to this and the
matter stood over.
The examination of witnesses was
resumed. Farmer Culloly, of Castle
Isemand, County Kerry, testified that
because he had served notices on tenants
in 1882, two men visited him and one Of
them struck him with a spade. The
other shot him in the leg. His leg had
to be amputated. He was afterward
boycotted.
On cross.examination he said the
quarters of the nearest branch of the
League was six miles distant from his
farm. He considered the rents through
out Kerry too high. He denied that
the two men who attacked him were
relatives of a servant girl whom he had
wronged.
Constable Mccarthy testified that he
searched the house of a man named
Mcmahon, who was treasurer of a
branch of the League, and found num-
Der of papers. Other witnesses from
Kerry were then examined, all of whom
attributed the outrages in that county to
the instigation of the League. A laborer
named Williams testified that he had
been fired at by captain of
Moonlighters, and said that placards
had been posted in various places offer
ing $500 to anyone who would shoot him
and his employer who had taken an
evicted farm. On cross examination,
however. none of the witnesses sue
ceeded 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, denouncing
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 cir
cular issued by the League denouncing
the treatment of the Curtins.
Near the hour of adjournment Mr.
Reid, in the absence of Sir Charles Rus
sell, appealed to the opposing counsel to
bulk the cutrages to which they wished
to refer, and to cease giving such evil
dence in detail. The inquiry threatened
to last long enough to ruin anybody
if the present method was continued.
Sir Henry James declared that the Times
was equally anxious to limit the time
and expenditure. Justice Hannen said
there must be an earnest effort to shorten
the work of the Commission. He con-
sidered that there had already been
enough detail of outrages, and other
branches of inquiry ought to be proceeded
with.