Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12
The Trial Proceeds and in the Event Of
an Adverse Decision the Matter is
Likely to be Carried Up
FOB TRE SUPERIOR COURT TO DECIDE.
Poor Law Guardians and Clergyman Call Attention to
ths Existenee Of Actual Distress
IN Unhappy Erin
A MoCKERY OF JUSTICE AT T1PPERARY
rsY CABLE TO TIE ptsPATcH3


When it became evident, weeks ago. that
the Government meant to elevate the case
against the Irish leaders at Tipperary to the
rank Of State trial, the Nationalist de-
cided to do their best to spoil the dignity of
the proceedings and the success which at
tended their efforts from the first was
crowned to-day, when, on the reassembling
of the court it was found that the two prin-
cipal defendants had placed themselves be-
yond the jurisdiction of BaIfour's police
magistrates.
1t had already been demonstrated to the
English people how the judicial bench had
been shamefully packed with personal and
political enemies of the defendants, and
how upon every point of fact and law
raised BY the counsel for the defense the
decision had been given unhesitatingly and
with indecent haste against the men on trial
The Impossible Accomplished.
But it was reserved for Messrs. Dillon
and O'Brien to demonstrate that the Gov
ernment was not only unfair, but ludl-
crously incompetent in the use of the
weapons of its own selection. When court
adjourned, owing to the curiously oppor-
tune illness of one of the defendants from
Monday till Friday, most of the peopl, in
Tipperary, except the police, seem to have
known that O'Brieu and Dillon would not
reappear. Timothy Healy had repeatedly
told the Court that those gentlemen meant
to keep their American engagements; but
the statement was treated as e mere boast,
and the police, being too thoroughly hated
to obtain information from the people, were
lulled into false security.
1t seemed impossible to them that, with
all the ports swarming with constables and
detectives and the defendants systemati-
cally shRdowed, the two best known leaders
could leave the country unnoticed. But
the aupposed impossible feat has been cas-
lily accomplished, and the Tories are shout
ing themselves hoarse with impotent rage.
Tory Organs TRADE.
Their feelings may be gagged by the edi-
typical Tory organ, which, forgetting that
both O'Brien and Dillon have given ample
proofs of their courage, denounces them as
a pair of poltroons. ''They have exhib-
ited," shrieks the Standard, ga typ
ical act of cowardly selfshness.
They have run away in order
to save their own precious skins. When
-
individual comfort, they take to their heels
with all the instructive promptitude of
craven natures. It is only natural and
proper that dishonest and reasonable agi-
tators, who began by advocating systemat-
lied robbery, should end by absconding."
A sufficient answer to this vile vitupera-
tion, which forms the staple of every Tory
editorial this morning, is furnished by the
fact that at the conclusion of their tour In
America it is the intention of Messrs.
O'Brien and Dillon to return to Ireland TO
undergo the sentence of imprisonment which
will then await them. The original scheme
OF the Irish leaders was to press on the trial.
Trick That Didn't Work.
Perhaps the meanest trick which this me-
culiarly mean Government intended to play |
was this: The counsel for the Crown was in
stTucted, in the event of the defendants be- |
ing found guilty, of which there has never
been any doubt on either side, to ask, not |
for sentence Of Imprisonment, but that all |
should De bound in heavy bail to keep the |
peace for TO II months. The Government |
knew perfectly well that O'Brien and Dill |
ion, at any rate, would not give bail, SO
that they would have been forthwith sent to
prison in default for long term, while the |
people of America and England would |
have been invited to note the sad spectacle
OF men going to Jail through their own OBJ.
stinacy.
1t was generally assumed that the trial
would be adjourned until the return of Dill
Ion and o'Brien, because less than q week
ago, when one of the defendants was unable
TO attend through illness, the magistrates, at
the request of the Grown counsel. ruled that
the case could not proceed unless all the de-
PENDANTS were present.
The Trial to Proceed.
But Balfour's removeabIes do not worry
themselves about being consistent, and this
afternoon they cheerfully decided to 20 on
with the trial as the Crown so desired. The
necessary steps are being taken by the Gov
ernment to estreat O'Brien and Dillon's
bail Healy has raised some ingenious
objections, and it is probable that
the matter will be fought in the Superior
Court. If the decision should be adverse to
the NationalIsts. individuals will not be
allowed to suffer, as the money will be paid
from the League treasury. This is the only
consolation left for Balfour. He virtually
holds mortgage for e., 900 upon the receipts
,f the American tour.
During the suspension of the great state