The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-27
pIGOr,T'S FLIGHT.
He ConfesSes the Parneil Let
tiers We're FOrgeries.
TIE TIMES DARK BLUE TIM
appearances Indicate that the Great
Newspaper q as Cause to Wish Abe
Witness Out of the Way.

com mission resumed its sitting thi
morning. Sir Charles Russell stateC
that on Saturday Richard Pigott wen
to the residence of Henry Labouchere
and in the presence of George Angus
tus Sala signed confession stating tina
the letters upon which the Times basec
It's charges against the Irish member
of the House of Commons were for
geries.
Sir Charles Russell then applied TO-
a warrant for the arrest Of Pigott.
The warrant was issued, but Pigot
did not appear. After the court hac
waited for some ii ne, counsel for the
Times stated to the judges that Plgot
had left the hotel at which he wa!
stopping at II o'clock last night, and
that counsel were ignorant of his
whereabouts.
The statement caused sensation in
the court room. The court took a re-
cess,
PIGoTT's CONFESSION.
Pigott in his confession said he had
forged all the letters secured by the
Times which purported to have been
written by Egan, Parnell, Davitt and
| O'Kelly. He also admitted that he had
been guilty of perj2ry in his evidence
before the commission.
phatically denies doing anything
"A in IN -,
make his escape.
Attorney General Webster said that
Shannon, the Dublin solicitor. who is
assisting the Times, had receiI ed letter
from Pigott yesterday, and he would
Charles Russell ssid he regretted that
he had not heard of the letter earlier.
He desired to put in evidence the letter
from Rgan to Labouchere. Webster
objected to the introduction of the
letter. Russell said that owing to the
Attorney-Generals objection he would
not read the letter, but as the letter,
with other documents, bore upon
Pigott's disappearance he claimed in
the interest of justice, that he should
make statement.
Justice Hannen said the evidence
must be called in support of the sta .e-
ment. Sir Charles acquiesced. He
added that the letter and documents
showed the means by which he had
fixed upon Pigott as forger. Pigott
had confessed to Lewis, ParnelPs So
licitor, that he was the forger. La
bouchere and Parnell, who were pres
ent when the confession was made
would corroborate this statement. On
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called upon Labouchere and stated
that he desired to make confession
Labouchere declined to listen until
witnesses were present: whereupor
| George Augustus Sala was summoned
and Pigott made the confession.
Sir Charles Russell also said that
whatever course was adopted by Attor-
ney-General Webster, he should pursue
his own course and should insist thai
the whole matter be thoroughly inves-
tigated because it was deliberately
charged that behind Pigott and Hous-
ton there had been a foul conspiracy
He asked the court to lmpound docu.
ments, which arrived at Anderson's
addressed to Pigott in care of Houston
WHO KILLED COCK RoBBIN?
Sir Charles added that Pigott had
made his escape, assisted by body
guard consisting of an Irish constable
and two Scotland Yard detectives.
Labouchere, Sir Charles said, had re-
ceiVed letter from Egan in July, 1888
in consequence of which number OIL
documents were handed to Labouchere.
Sir Charles asked permission to call
witness to testify to information which
the court ought to have.
SAYS He IS A FoRGER.