Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

case they should abandon. His clients,
he said, also wished to ascertain whether
Pigott was accessible. He promised to
announce tomorrow the course to be
pursued by the Times.
In accordance with the attorney-gen-
eral s request the commission adjourned.
DEATH or PROFESSOR MAGUIRE.
LONDON, Feb. 26.3The magistrate
sitting in the Bow street police court, at
the instance of Messrs. Parnell and
Lewis, this afternoon issued a warrant
for the arrest of Pigott on charges of
perjury and forgery.
Professor Mcguire, Houston IS partner
and colleague, who had been summoned
to testify,for the Times before the Par
nell commission, died suddenly in Lon
don to-day. 1t is reported that he had a
stroke of apoplexy upon hearing that
Pigott had fed.
HOW THE CONSPIRACY WAS DETECTED.
LONDON, Feb % From a gentleman
high in authority in the prosecution of
the Parnell-T Times case, a representative
of the Associated Press to-day heard the
true story of how the conspiracy against
Parnell was detected. 1t constitutes one
of the most romantic and extraordinary
narrative, in the history of politics. The
evidence by which the conspiracy was
exploded was sent to London from
distant point in the western portion of
the United States and but for this evil
dehce, complete in detail and iilvincible
at every point, the Times would
undoubtedly have won, notwithstanding
the spuriousness of the letters Up to
July of last year Parnell, his counsel and
colleagues, were wholly at sea. They
surInised, eoniectured, investigated clues
ell
knew the letters were forged, but the
forgeries were so adroit and the last of
the letters, to say nothing of the PEN
manship, was so like the habitualIy same
phraseology of both Parnell and Egan,
that it was clear crime
HAD BEEN COMMITTED
by some one having access to the eorre-
spondence of both, but although the most
astute detectives and most ingenious of
English solicitors were in the case, every
effort to discover the forger proved futile,
and Mr. Parnell and his confidents were,
If not hopeless, at least depressed and
disheartened. One day last July a young
Irish-American priest, Rev Maudice j /.
Dorney, of Chicago, III. accompanied by
Rev. Herbert Dunn of the same city sent
his card in TO Parnell in the house OF
commons. When they met, Father Dor
Hey AIAOEBl6u L dIHSAl lAS HdI "a DdCEdGB
TO deliver, placed in his hands the night
before he sailed from New York. It con-
tanned, he said, evidence that would re-
veal the forgeries and identify the forger
OF the letters printed in the London
Times. The circumstances under which
he came to be its bearer were singular.
ALMOST ACCIDENTAL.
He received telegram from Alexander
Sullivan of Chicago, whose name figured
so prominently during the trial, asking
him to meet Patrick Egan at the railway
station at New York on the night before
he was to sail to Liverpool. He did so
Egan said he had come directly from
Chicago where he had been in consulta-
ton with Mr.. Sullivan when he had been
requested after they had the documents
and their history in form to select trust
worthy man to deliver them to Nh
Parnell. Sullivan learned that Fathers
Dorhey and Dunn were to take the
steamer that Saturday for Liverpool,
and he selected Father Dorney to bear
the messages. Mr.. Egan was met at the
station by Father Dorney, vino was told
the duty that had been imposed upon
him. They sat up all night, the priest
learned the whole story, and was also to
make it clear to Parnell. He told Par
nell he had carried that package with
more solicitude than if it had been mil
lions, for if it was lost all the gold the
Irish race could send to help him in his
trial
COULD NOT REPLACE IT.
He expressed to him the anxiety of
Egan and Sullivan for the safety of the
package, and when its real nature and in
estimable value became apparent to Par
nell, the home-ruIe leader was deeply |
afflicted. The depression which had been |
visible on his pale face for months began |
to soften. and during the recital of the /
story he yielded several times to emotion |
When the story itself was over he asked |
with painful apprehension how many men
in the United States knew what the pack |
aged contained. Father Dorney replied |
that only EgaG, Sullivan and himself |
were familiar with it, but that Patrick |
Ford of the Irish World would be taken /
into confidence by Egan. Parnell was de- |
lighted. He inquired fearing some one /
knew who might indiscreetlyEtell the story /
warning the Times. He was solictitious /
for secrecy but he said the gentleman |
named would understand
THE NEED OF SECRECY,
without request or n word of caution
and they were all men whose names and |
services insured safety. An hours in
IeFNleW 1OtlOWeus participated III by Dor
ney, Parnell, Sir Charles Russell Lewis
and Labouchere. The discovery that |
Pigott was forger was made by Egan
in Lincoln, Neb. while detectives and |
experts were vainly trying to find a clue
in Great Britain. Egan writes he
was sorely perplexed by forged letters,
fac-similes of which he got in the Lon
don Times. The signature of those at
tributed to him was remarkably good.
Expressions and odd observations pecu-
liar to him were in the text. |
He considered as the possible /
forger Of each several men whom
ParneIlites suggested or suspected
but none of them could have had letters |
from him which would have made spuri-
Gus concessions possible. He recalled
Richard Pigott, and as he had been long
dead in politics and covered with
ACCUMULATED SHAME
Egan dismissed him from his mind. He
that Pigott had been con-
cerned in forgery many years before, but
the idea that he might be concerned in
these seemed absurd. In scrutinizing the
forged fac SMILES he finally Ciseov-
cred that one signed with his own
name was written to certain
address in Paris, and the recollection
dachAd I1poyi him that T1igof4 f3,., 6,,T.-