Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-28
THE TIMES APOLOGIZES.
It Claims to Be a Victim of the
 Conspiracy,
AND DENIES BEING PARTY TO IT.
1t Accepts in Every Particular Parneffs Statement That All the Letters Were Forged-Letters Received from Pigott in


 Forged-Letters Received from Pigott in Paris Containing Further Disclosures. LONDON, Feb 2S-The Times publishes, in substance the following apology:
 "Mr Parnell having in the witness box stated that the letters were forgeries we ac- cept in every respect the truth of his state | ment, and deem it right to express our regret l most fully and sincerely at being induced to | publish them. This expression of regret in cludes the letters falsely attributed to Messi's. Egan, Davitt and O'Kelly. We firmly be- Heved that tine letters were genuine. and it | must be evident to all reasonable persons that if conspiracy existed, The Times victim ized by and not a party to it." This with drawal, of course, refers to the letters oo- tained from Pigott exclusively. The Times has withdrawn its advertisement of ''Parnellism and Crime" and "C'Donnell vs.Walter." Applicants for the pamphlets are informed that they are out of print ''Home rule for Ireland" is tho cry here Charles Stewart Parnell is the hero of the day. When the "uncrowned king arrived at the magnificent gothic palace of justice the crowd outside received him with intense en- thusiasm.
 From St. Clements Danes right down to St. Dunstan's the Strand and Fleet street was packed. When Mir ParneI got out of his hansom and entered the law courts mighty shout of ..Hurrah for Parnellm and Down with the Times" arose.
 It was a representative crowd, too from which those cries came. It contained mem bers of every class from the peer to iEe cos termonger.
 The Times has done more to convert Eng lishmen to home rule than even that honest patriot, Parnell, has done Englshme;,, with all their faults. have their lovo for iair play and will give it once their phlegmatic minds have grasped the situation.
 When the session of the Parnell commission opened the attorney general, Sir Richard Webster, stated to the court that Mir. Shan non The Times Dublin solicitor had received a letter from Pigott who Is in Paris. The letter was not in PigottS writing. Mir Shan non had immediately notified the Scotland Yard authorities of the receipt of the letter. The attorney general then read the letter. It was dated Saturday, and contained the confession Pigott made to Mir. Labouchere on that day, at the latter's T, sdence Pigott added that he desired fully to disclose that he fabricated the alleged fac smile of Mir. Par nell's letter published in The Times and the other letters he had furnished to that paper. He denied being in touch with the American Brotherhood after he had sod his newspaper, The Irshman. He admitted that lie wrote the conversation with Eugene Davis at l.au- same from memory only.
 He told Houston that he found the letters ill a bag but he fabricated them, using gen uine letters of MeSsrs, Parnell and Egan, copying certain words showing the general character of the writing, and tracing them against a window pane. He afterward de Stroyed the genuine letters The second batch of letters ascribed to Mir. Parnel were imi- tated from the fac similc published in The Times He did not Brcslin in America He admitted that Mir Labouchere's account of the interview between them was i'll the main correct.
 The letter dated Saturday was enclosed in another letter bearing date Hotel du Monde, Paris, Tuesday" and saying: Before leav- ing, the enclosed the coniession was handed me- having been left while l was out. 1 will write again soon. RICHARD PIGoTT." It is believed that Pigott posted his letter to Mr. Shannon at the railroad station ill Paris and proceeded directly to Spain Switzer- land.
 On Monday Pigott sold some rare Do oks some of them of an erotic character at a book mart He received in payment for these a check for e25, which he mad c,.Shed at the bank on which it was drawn. He was las, seen in Fleet street at o'clock Monday after noon
 Mir. Parnell was then called and sworn. H. denied signing the alleged letter of the 15tl of May Mir Campbell his secretary, die not write the letter The witness had no heard of such letter until he saw it ill Tn, Times. MT. Campbell had gone to Antwerl to endeavor to find Pigott. Mir. Parnel denied the ganuineness of the other letter purporting to have been signed by hmsel and MT. Egan. He said he and MT. Egal had had extensive correspondence. He die tated to MT. Campbell q letter regarding al interview asked by Pigott The letter whicl the Times reproduced was evidently imitatet from it. He had no interview with Pigott
 Pigott's arrest i'll Paris is regarded as i'm minent, but it is doubtful whether tn French government will regard perjury as al extraditable offense
 The Paris police want the man for them selves He is charged with defrauding deal CTS there by means of obscene pictures an, books
 In the house of commons Mr. Matthews home secretary, stated that the authoritie were taking steps for the extradition of Pigot wherever he should be found.
 In answer to a question Mir. Matthews sai that the government possessed no informatio regarding Houston that would at present ju. tify taking any steps to prevent his leavin the country.
 It was ascertained in the lobby of the hous of commons that Sir Richard E. Webster ha offered his resignation of the office of attol ney general, in consequence of the collapse C The Times charges against Mir. Parnell, bu that the government has yet declined accept it, believing that to do so would sti further commit the ministry to responsibilit for the allegations.
 The celebrated forged letter was written 0 two sheets of an ordinary piece of note pape On the first sheet was the following, whic was alleged by The Times to have been wri ten by Mir. Campbell, MT. Parnell's secretar,
 "15, 5, 'S2.
 'DEAR SRI am not surprised at yol friends anger but he and you should kno that to denounce the murders was the onl course open to us. To do that promptly WI plainly our best policy.
 "But you can tell him and all others col cerned that though I regret the accident Lord F. Cavendish's death cannot refuse