The Meeker herald., 1889-03-09


meeting that the good priest OF the par
ish WAS absolutely ignorant ot the revo-
lutionary plots which were being laid at
his chapel.
At that convention Colonel Thomas
j. Kelley was elected chief executive of
the brotherhood. and Colonel Richard
O'Sullivan Burke, now II resident of
Chicago, and employed in the city EN-
gineer's Office, WAS an officer OF high de-
gree. The Irishman newspaper, then
nominaiiy controlled by Richard Pigott,
was the only organ the Irish National
lists had and It's editor necessarily was
given considerable insight into til.
plans, the aims and objects OF tho
brotherhood and the methods by whlcl.
these objects were Ia be accomplished.
formation, nB tn tho bi6thsrl,ooti, and
the leaders were arrested, tried for trea-
son and sentenced To Ion. terms OF
penal seryitudc. Among them WAS
Colonel Burke, who received sentence
Of fifteen Years, five of which he served
In yariou, English and Irish prisons.
His recoilections OF "Dick" Pigott ARE
not pleasant.
II first suspected figoit OF double
dealing with the Na,ionalis,s as early as
ISIS" said Colonel Burke 10 the re-
porter. 1T WAS after and some others
had been released from prison, and ""
wished some statements about our
prison III. and other matters published
". supposed, OF course, that the
aNowed organ Of the Satlonalists would
do this, but pigott consented only with
the pEoylso tia, he would b- permitted
10 revise our statements and eliminate
any parts ho thought proper. That We
could not allow, and the statements
were no, published. soon found the
motive of the action Of pigot,. The
irishman, though under hi, ostcns!bic
con,fol!'~as owned by ono of the Dub
lin banks, and fi.o;t was owned with
III, paper. He wa, Il poor man, Il. had
no money by inheritance. and WAS max.
Ing none by everyday work, and vet hc
affected society and tried 10 be swell.
1lir money had To come from some
where.
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his talk aiout tfliling things that
amounted Ia no.hiug even II accom-
plishci. but on important. grave gur,-
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fond of money. which he always
wanted. nni sometimes found diihc"i'
TO get, fond Of display. vain and unrt-
liable. Iic was IN very bad oior Win
the Irish Saiionalss,s, anu after tue
break np Of the Irish H'publican h'"oh-
cfhoci by the prosecutions oi is''-, hc
was inirusicd with no important
knowledge.
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p'iH's" v" we '.i''"" 'H'''H ~
been written u! ihh'"' ~ ""'' s"'
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iorsrd thcm' "'"'' I" 'n" ''""'"'
Times on september ~. isss' iohR l'''
ter. showing tue "hsuTdi'! "i c"afS'hs
The irish leaders Win cohip'S''! w
pctt, explosions or transformations. Inc
Irish leaders are men oil in'.HIsehc'
and thcN "onld not a'''ihp' 70 "He'"'I"
the p,FaIniis with u rin. dih hot 'as
any steps to prove figott TIC i"rscr OF
the letters further than to suggest tue
likelihood that he had hand III ~ .
"Thcrr are other things oi whieh
suspect iigott. lhcT. mas b'ch pun
lishcd secret history OF fehiai'isth'
aud the English press have made a great
read /, st once associated plgott with
IL. authorship, Thc half truths In 1t
could com. only from the government
officers WHO had aIl the facts accumu.
lated during the trials of 1857 s. or from
three certain men who were. TO a lim-
tied degree. in the confidence Of the
brn,h,rbood leaders. One of these was
piyvot. The others may bc implicated.