Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14
THE TIMES TACTICS.
A Detective Sent to This Country to Find
Evidence Against Parnell.
He is Given Big Chase Over the Country and
Finally Discovers He Has Been Duped.
Big Rewards offered

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. l3.-The
Courier created profound sensation this
morning by publishing thirteen letters
and a number of kilograms written by
special detective from Scotland yard,
sent out in the interest of the London
Times to procure evidence that would i'm
plicate Charles Stewart Parnell in the
Phoenix park murders. 1t appears that
in August last a Black Rock mechanic
just naturalized, being out of work and
in need of money, conceived a scheme of
making something out of the London
Times. He wrote letter to the pub
fishers of that paper to the effect that
while working as a mason on the New
York acqueduct he came across two IRISH
men VINO were in possession of docu-
mentary evidence that would prove the
letters on which the Times relies in the
present investigation to be perfectly
genuine. His language was:
s'There is two Irishmen here that was
indirectly in the combine to murder
Cavendish and Burke, where / can get
all the proof you want for very little.
This person received a cablegram from
the London Times telling him to hold to
the men
AT ALL HAZARDS,
and that an English detective would soon
be on American soil. The detective duly
came in the person of j. II. Kirby or
"CTis Thomas and was said to be
accompanied by female agent as sharp
as himself Kirby's first letter
to the Buffalo man was written from New
York, and directed reply to be sent to
G.. Thomas, care of Maj. Rice, 1897
Broadway. II Is said the writer was au-
thorized to see him and others well COM
pensated who are willing to give I'M
doubted proofs, and also, if necessary
to 90 to England and give, link by link,
testimony that would be accepted by the
courts Of Great Britain, and also
by the Royal commission He guaranteed
that not only would the rewards be
liberal to all who would serve in procur-
ing proof, but protection would be ample.
He requested the Buffalo man to proceed
to New York with his documents, to
avoid mixing with anyone in the city, anC
keep
A CLOSED MOUTH.
This was written on August %. The
Buffalo man did not go to New York and
his replies to Kirby were opened at Major
Rice's by some third party. There
upon Kirby changed his name 10
"'Cris Thomas, and shifted his
address TO room "a, Gedney Louse,
Fourth street and Broadway. This ar
rangement was making things warm for
the Buffalo man, especially when he pro-
posed a meeting atithe Tiff house here,
but he was equal to the occasion. and
warned the English detective that their
game had been discovered, advising him
to leave the city. Kirby and his fair
companion thereupOn went to Chicago,
where his headquarters were with George
Harvey i Co., l79 LaSalle street, all the
time imploring the Buffalo man TO hasten
TO PROCURE Ills PROOFS,
and paying out money in sums of S25 to
so at a time, aggregating in all about
$500. In his last letter from the Gedney
house he said he was authorized to assure
both Of the suppositious Irishmen COM
Portable farms of their own and secure
them a competence for their lives. He
was willing to pay $500 apiece in cash if
they would give up the papers. Writing
from room 572, Palmer house, November
%, he began to show petulance ,suspecting
he was being duped, and declared he
would not pay out another dollar until
he cOnld see the papers in his own hands.
The correspondence ceased with the thir-
lttiitu lObltI MIllICl Ol IJttcUlDcE
from the Palmer house, Chicago, an
nOuncing his intention of proceeding to
Niagara Falls.
In the course of his wanderings after
proof of the Scotland yard man, he went
to Ravenswood, H., where he said
his son lived, and thence he wrote
Offering to give the Buffalo man $500
if he would make success certain, and
the same TO each of the other men, There
was, of course, no evidence whatever of
the nature sought 10y the agent of the
Times and the British government.
At a meeting of the Irish National
League in st. Stephens han this after
noon, the exposure made by the Courier
was discussed, and the course of the
Times in endeavoring to trump up evil
dence against Parnell, was emphatically
denounced in speeches and resolutions.
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