Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-27
HOW IT CAME ABOUT.
A Story of the Expose OF the ConsplraC
AgaInst MIR, ParneIi.

A story of the Expose OF the Conspiracy
Against MIR. Parneli.
LONDON, February 2G.-FrOm a gentle
man high in authority in the prosecution
Of the Parnell- Times case representative
Of the Associated Press to-day heard the
true story Of how the conspiracy against Par
nell was detected. 1t constitutes one Of the
most romanticand extraordinary narratives
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 Unitei States.
Without this evidence complete in detail
and invibcible at every point the Times
would undoubtedly have won, nOtwith-
standing the spuriousnes5 of the letters.
Up TO July of last year, Parnell, his
counsel and colleagues, were wholly at
sea. One day Last July q young Irish
American priest, Rev. Maurice j. DOrney,
of Chicago, accompanied by Rev. Herbert
Dunn, of the same city, sent
his card in to Parnell, at the House
Of Commons. When they met, Father
Dorney informed Parnell that he had a
package to deliver placed in his hands the
night before he sailed from New York. 1t
contained, he said, the evidence that would
reveal 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 and almost
accidental. He received telegram from
Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago, asking
him 10 meet Patrick Egan at railway
station IN New York the night before he
was to sail for Liverpool. He did So
Egan said be had come directly from
Chicago, where he had been in con-
sultation with Mr.. Sullivan, when
be had requested after they had
gotten the documents and their history
IN form TO select a trustworthy man TO
carry them to Parnell. Sullivan learned
that Fathers Dorney and Dunn were to
take the steamer that Saturday for Liver
POOL, and he selected Father Dorney to
bear the message. Mr.. Egan was met at
the station by Father DOrney, who was
told the duty that had been imposed upon
him. They sat up all night. The priest
learned the whole story and was able to
make it clear to Parrell.
He told Parnell he had carried tbat
uackaee with more solicitude than if it bad
been millions; for were 1t lost all the gold
the Irish race could send to help him in
his trial could not replace it. In that
package were a number of letters that had
passed between Egan and Pigott. BY
comparing them with the handwriting on
the forged letters, he saw that be
had the forger. lie submitted
letters written by PigOtt to
ex oerts together with the fac similes Of
the forged letters They Immediately de-
tected characteristic peculiarities, which
were confirmed under the microscope.
Epan had Pigott's letters and forgeries
photographed and started for Chicago,
where be placed all the papers before his
friend Alexander Sullivan, who is well
known lawyer. They were afterwards
brought to New York and given TO
Fathers Do1ney and Dunn, piior to their
sailing for Liverpool.
No hint Of the contents Of the package
ever became public until Parnell himself,
in the interview he had with Plgott in the
presence of Labouchere and Lewis, asked
Pigott certain questions, which disclosed
/ 10 the GulDIlL Al1l VIC" oNNN+~N
couyicting him of the crime. Pigott
either reported his fears 10 the
TYaes or was watched by its detectives
ard traced into Parnelps presence. Then
he had to partially confess to his employ
ers; and the Attorney General and his
colleagues then compelled LecaIon ID tes-
tify and be as malignant as possible,
swearing that Parnell declared to Lscaron
that be favored armed revolution and
that Alexander Sullivan got him into
a secret revolutionary association. This
was for the purpose Of breaking the force
of Parnelrs information about PigOtts
sntecedents. But Pigott had no suspicion
of the overwhelming completeness of the
knoledge conveyed in the package to the
Parneliites and did not realize until he
cot into Sir Charles clutches the fatal
effect upon him and on the Times case OF
what Parnell knew.