Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-13
LIE CARON'S TASK ENDED,
His Testimony Before the
 Commission Closed.
HE RElTERATES HIS CHARGES.
The Government Has Paid Him Fifty Pounds Month for Years-Cool and Collected Under Fire from Sir Charles Russell.


 Collected Under Fire from Sir Charles
 Russell.
 LONDON, Feb. 13-The cross examination or Le Caron, alias Beach. was continued by Sir Charles Russell before the Parnell com | mission. Mir. Davitt was present, but did not cross examine the witness, as it was supposed he would do.
 Le Caron admitted that he had received ESQ per month for years from the British Government, and far more from the Canadian authorities; that he was still under the pay of both, and that considerable sum was due him. The British Government paid him 92 GOO between February, '6s, and August, 70
 He allowed that O'Kelly and Esan were expelled from g. secret organization because they joined in the Parnell movement; that he made no report to the British government of his alleged interviews with O,Kelly and Parnell, although both were important, and that although, as he alleged, Parnell told him to sec Devoy, Sullivan, Faner and Hines, he made no report of his interviews with them to Parnell, although he testified he did see them. His reason for not doing so was that Egan had given instructions that he should report to Egan only. He had visited Europe live times since 1867, sometimes in protes- sional capacity and sometimes improvisation ally. He reported himself to the authorities on each occasion, except in 1S67
 Neither Mir. O'Kelly nor Mir Parnel had ever written to him. O'Leary was violent opponent of the league.
 Witness delivered sealed packets from Messrs Devoy and O'Leary to Mir. Egan in Paris in 1881 and acknowledged that the se- curity of the seals alone prevented him from opening the packets He again saw Mir. Egan in America in 1883. Later, Mir Egan intro duced him to Mr. Parnell in the lobby of the house of commons. He conversed with Mir. Parnell and was complimented by him on bis work
 The Irish Republican Brotherhood was then opposing Mir. Parnell.
 MT. Parnell complained of this opposition, and said that the home and sister organiza- tions would have been crippled had they not obtained assistance from America
 The most important of the conversations MT. Parnell had with him was, he said, the one which concerned the Irish leaders views as revolutionist In this conversation Le Caron said that Mir. Parnell declared he did not see why an insurrection would not be successful
 The convention of 1881, he stated, unani- mously agreed upon secret policy of war fare. The V. c. organization comprised the dynamiters apart from O'Donovan Rossa. Tho secret organization was conceived in 1869 and the V. c. in 1872 Rossa was ex- pelled for insubordination. The connection between the Supreme Council and the V. c. was ruptured in 1884, each claiming to be the legitimate organization. MT. Parnell, the witness said, requested him to write to Devoy, Sullivan, Hines and Carroll
 A letter written by Devoy, from New Haven, in 1881, to the witness was then read. Devoy wrote: I've cannot tolerate the kind of thing begun in Buffalo" According to the witness, this referred to an attempt of the Parnellites to disrupt the revolutionary organization, and had no reference to pro tests against violence and crime
 He was very cool the whole time. He did not contradict any of the main points in his direct examination, but Sir Charles Russell managed to elicit from him admissions which must have discrediting effect upon his future testimony.
 Another of Le Caron's Statements Refute<l.
 DUBLIN, Feb 13.-At the meeting of the National league in Dublin Matt Harris, re- ferring to the testimony of Le Caron before the Parnell commission, in which the witness had alluded to him in connection with certain conspiracies, said that be was in prison from April, 1881, to February, 1882, and in Paris for the benefit of his health at the time of the Phoenix park murders. When he heard that the murders had been committed he returned to Dublin instantly, and thereafter remained in Ireland. He had never, he declared, given money to anyone in consideration of the shooting of landlords, nor had he ever asked anyone to do what he would not do himself He had always condemned assassins, and took occasion to do 50 at the present moment
 The old Man Breaking Down.