St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-13
LIE CARON LEAVES OFF.


LIE CARON LEAVES OFF.
The Versatile Prevaricator Con-
cludes His Expose of Parnellism
and Returns Thanks for Small
EavOrs.
Special to the Globe.
LONDON, Feb. 12.-The oss-eyamina-
ton of LIE ,Caron by Sir Charles Russell,
counsel for the Parnellites, was con-
tinued at this mornings session OF the
ParneIl commission. The witness ad-
mitted that neither O'Kelly nor Parnell
had ever written to him. The Fenians.
he said, expelled O'Kelly because he
Joined the open movement headed by
Parnell. The most important of the
conversations MIR. Parnell had with him
was, he said, the one which concerned
the Irish leaders views as a revoiu-
ZIONIST. In this conversation LIE Caron
said that Mr.. Parnell declared he did
not see why an insurrection would not
be successful. LIE CarUn stated that
from February, 1868, to August,
1870. he received $4,000. all of which lie
used for public purposes. O'Leary de-
nounced O'Kelly. The witness believed
that O'LearY was violent opponent Of
the league. The witness said he de-
livered sealed packages from Messrs.
Dewey and 0'Leary to Mr.. Egan in Paris
in 1851, and acknowledged that the Sc
curity of the seals alone prevented him
from opening them. He again saw
Fan in America in 1888. Later Egan
introduced him to Mr.. Parnell i'll the
lobby of the house of commons.
PARNELL CoMPLIMENTED HIM
upon his work. The Irish Republican
brotherhood was then opposing Parneil
SO far as the home organization was con-
cerned. Parnell complained of this OPP
position, and said that the home and
sister organizations would have been
crippled had it not been for money
from America. At Parnell's request
the witness saw Dewey and Sullivan
and two others in America. He did not
write the result of his conversation with
these men to Parnell. as he had not
been requested to, and Egan had in
strueted the witness to write to him.
The witnesses conversations With MIR.
Parnell had no reference to Mr.. Egan.
The counsel on both sides here an
nouneed that they had agreed not to
produce the documents which were the
subject Of discussion on Friday. The
witness said he had spent more than he
had received from the government In
the public service. He had made no ar.
rangement for further reward. The
w. G." organization, numbering $4,000
members, knowingly and deliberately
supported the dynamite policy. In the
convention of 1881, 162 of the delegates
present favored the use. of dynamite.
The convention held ia Madison Square
garden, New York, in 1884, advocated
the dynamite policy. Sullivan, Lomas-
ney, Cronan, Smythe, Scanlon. Hicks,
Furiong and Crane were present at that
convention. lie Caren testified that the
convention of 1881 unanimously agreed
upon
POLICY OF SECRET WARFARE.
The Y. c. organization comprised the
dyEamiterS apart from O'Dopoyan
Rosa. The secret organization was
conceived in 1869 and the Y. G. in 1872.
Rosa was expelled for INSTRUMENTATION.
The connection between the supreme
council and the Y. G. was rupturad i'll
1884, each claiming to be the Legitimate
organization. Mr.. Parnell, the witness
said, requested him to write to Dewey,
Sullivan, Hines and Carroll. A letter
written by Dewey from New Haven in
1881 to the witness was read. Dewey
wrote: I'VE cannot tolerate the kind
I'll tHNtS DtS, III III DultdtO. hSCOIuiii9
to tile witness, this referred to an at
tempt of the Parnellites to disrupt the
revolutionary organization and had no
reference to protest against violence
ana crime. LIE Caron's examination
being concluded, the commission adj
journed. When LIE Caron's testimony
was concluded tile witness gravely
thanked the court and counsel for the
courtesy shown to him throughout his
examination.
AT the meeting of the National
league in Dublin to-day, Matt Harris,
referring to the testimony of LIE CarOn
before the Parnell commission, in
which the witness had alluded to him
in connection With certain conspiracies,
said that he was in prison from April.
1851, to February, 1882, and i'll Paris for
the benz fit of his health at the time OF
the Phoenix Park murders. When he
heard that the murders had been cc.n-
mitted he returned to Dublin instantly,
and thereafter remained in Ireland. He
had never, he declared, given money TO
any one in consideration of the shooting
of landlords, nor had he ever asked any
one to do whathe would not do himself.
He had always condemned assassins,
and took occasion to do so at the pres
ent moment.