Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-28
PIGGOTvf, WHERE IS HE?
a Letter Received From the Famous
Forger.-His Whereabouts Unknown.
The Times Admits Its Case is Hopeless and Re-
grets Publishing the Letters Excite
ment at FeverR eat
PARNELL COMMISSION.
The Times Ready to Apologize for Injuries
Done the irish Ieasier.

PARNELL COMMISSION
The Times Ready to Apologize for Injuries
Done the irish Leader.
LONDON, Feb. % In the house of COM
mons to-day Reg. Henry Matthews, sec
rotary of state fer foreign affairs, said
the authorities were taking steps to Sc
cure the extrad1tion of Pigott from Paris
Mr.. Matthews also said he had no in
formation regarding Houston at present
| that would justify him in preventing
| Houston from leaving the country.
An immense crowd was present in the
| courtroom this morning when the session
of the Parnell commission opened. Much
excitement was manifested. Parnell ar
rived in the courtroom at an early honr.
Attorney General Webster stated to
| the court that Mr.. Shannon, the Times
Dublin solicitor, had received letter
to-day from Piggott who is in Paris. The
letter was not in Piggott S writing
Shannon had Immediately notified the
Scotland Yard authorities of the letter.
The attorney-gen then read the
letter. 1t was dated Saturday and con-
tanned
THE CONFESSION OF PIGGoTT
latter's residence. Piggott added he
desired to disclose that he fabricated the
fac SMILES of the Parnell letters pub
lished in the Times and the other letters
he had furnished other papers. He de-
MED being in league with the American
brotherhood after he had sold his news
paper, the Irishman. He admitted he
wrote the conversation with Egan and
Davis at Lausanne from memory only
He told Houston he found the letters i'll
bag, but he fabricated them, using gen.
uine letters of Parhell and Egan, copy
ing certain words showing the genuine
character of the writing ana tracing
them
AGAINST A WINDOW PANE.
He afterwards destroyed the genuine
letters. The second batch of letters
ascribed TO Parnell were initiated from
the fac SMILES published IN the Times.
He did not see Breslin in America. He
admitted that Labouchere s account Of
the interview between them was, in the
main, correct.
The letter, dated Saturday, was en-
closed in another bearing date of Hotel
du Monde, Paris, Tuesday, and saying:
''Before leaving the enclosed (the con
fession) was handed me, having been
i I
soon.
Signed, RICHARD PIGGOTT -
Attorney General Webster said every
body would agree that nobody could at
tach any weight to Piggott's statement,
and that 1t was his duty to ask the court
withdrawal from answering
THE GENUINENRss OF THE LETTERS.
The Times, he said, desired to express
regret for publishing the letters and the
proprietors of that paper would them
selves more fully express their regret
later. He repudiated the allegation
made by Sir Charles Russell yesterday
that there was foul conspiracy beyond
Piggott and Houston. If such conspir-
acy existed the Times had no share in it.
The court should make the fullest in
quiry.
Sir Charles Russell said he had hoped
that the attorney general would have
made a stronger statement.
ParneU was then called and sworn. He
denied signing the alleged letter of the
18th Mr. Campbell, his secretary, did
not write the letters. The witness had
not heard of such letters until he saw
them published in the Times. Campbell
goes to Paris tomorrow
TO FIND PIGGOTT.
Parneu GSnIeu the SenulHeH6sS OF
the other letters purporting to have
been signed by himself and Egan.
He said he and Egan had extensive cor
respondence. He dictated to Campbell
letter regarding an interview asked by
Piggott, the letter which the Times re-
produced by Piggott. The letter which
the Times reproduced was evidently imi-
tated from it. He had no interview with
Pigg0tt.
At this point Attorney General Web
ster asked that the commission adjourn
until tomorrow, but the court adjourned
until Friday
Piggott s arrest in Paris is regarded as
imminent, but it is doubtful whether the
French government viii regard perjury
as an extraditable offense.
The Times has withdrawn its adver-
tisements of ''Parnellism and Crime''
and go 'Donnell VS.. Walter, - and ap-
plicants for the pamphlets are informed
they are out of print. 1t is doubted
whether Piggott is in Paris, as a report
from the landlord of Hotel du Monde of
that city says he has not seen him. A
rumor is current that Piggott cashed a
check for E25 in London yesterday morn