Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-26
ENGLAND'S SHAME.
Brutal Treatment of Irish
NatiOnalists.
The Trial of Dillon, O'Brien ct
al. Begun.
A Day of BlOOdshed and Excitement
at Tipperary.
Timothy Harrington Wounded by the
Policemen's Bluageons-John
Morley's Narrow Escape.
Associated Press Dispatches.


DUBLIN, Sept. 25.-Patrick O'Brien,
who was arrested at Cardiff Tuesday,
was brought to this city yesterday and
placed in prison. The police refused to
give any information as to when he
would be taken to Tipperary for hear
ing, but last night the Nationaiists
Learned that he would be conveyed
there by the morning train today
when they at once made preparations
to give him worthy escort. Much to
the surprise of the authorities large
delegation of prominent Nationalists
boarded the train at the same time that
the officers appeared with O'Brien.
Among these were John Morley, who
has been in Ireland for some time
studying the Irish question: John
Dillon, Alfred Illingworth, member
parliament for Bradford; T. M. Har-
rington and several others.
Nationalists CIubbed.
On the arrival Of the train at Upper
ary, the Nationalists started for the
court house in body. They had not
gone far wien they stopped at street
corner. They were ordered by the
police to move on. John O'Connor
member of parliament, took vigorous
eXcep tions to this order and called on
the crowd to give three cheers
for John Morley. The cheers
were given with good will,
much to the evaporation of the police,
who charged upon the group and at
tempted to force it to move forward. In
the melee the policemen did not hest
tate to use their clubs. The Nationalists
continued their way slowly towards
the court house.
AS this was the day fixed for the trial
of the arrested Nationalists, the streets
were full OF people interested in the
case. Nationalists had thronged from
all the adjacent parts.
Another Arrest.
Early in the Cay it became known
that still another arrest had been made.
The victim this time was Thomas j.
Condor. member of parliament for Tip
perary, East. He was taken this morn
ing at Limerick and also brought to
Tipperary.
When the hour for the sitting of the
court arrived, an immense crowd had
collected before the court house, ready
to rush in the moment the doors were
thrown open. The crowd pressed for
ward, trying to force their way into the
court house. The police stouty resisted,
charging repeatedly. For fully five
minutes there was stand-up fight be-
tween the now excited throng and the
police.
The Brutality of the Police.
At last, however, the crowd was grad
ually forced back, and the police sue
ceeded in maintaining clear space in
front of the court house. During the
conflict many persons were wounded
with blows from the policemen's bludg-
cons; among them were Timothy Har-
rington. He made his way into the
court room, his hair and coat collar sat
urated with blood. His appearance
created a sensation and lent additional
emphasis to the complaint which Will
lam O'Brien was making to the court of
the brutality of the police. At
first O'Brien had refused to enter
the room unless the public were admit
ted, but at last decided that he could
accomplish more by appealing to the
court, so he entered the room and bit
terly denounced the clubbing of the
crowd.
Then John Morely arose and appealed
to the court to protect the population
against the wanton use of clubs by the
police. Meanwhile the nationalist lead
ers continued to protest against the ex
clusion of the general public, and the
magistrate finally ordered the doors
opened.
Before Biased Magistrate.
The room was at once filled to the ut
mostcapacity. All the proceedings were
followed with intense interest. At the
outset Dillon objected to being tried
before the resident magistrate, Shannon,
on the ground that he had persona
2 encounter with Shannon once at Cashel.
Shannon had grossly insulted him. He
urged, therefore, the manifest impro-
priety in having Shannon sitting at the
present trial. Shannon refused to admit
the validity OF Dillon's objections, and
declared that he would perform his duty
without bias.
VIM. O'Brien also objected to Shan
non. The last time he saw Shannon the
latter was chief of the police who were
using clubs upon the people. Moreover,
Shannon had already tried him three
times on similar charges. His sitting in
the present case was an indecency and
an insult.
The magistrate answered O'Brien's
objections in the same way he disposed
of Dillon's.
The Line of Prosecution.
Roman, the counsel for the crowd,
asked permission of the court to make
slight alteration in the charges against
the prisoners. The latter protested
vigorously, urging it was illegal. The
court paid no heed to the protests, but
permitted the desired changes.
The defendants protested against the
introduction of evidence touching mat
ters anterior to the dates specified in the
warrants.
The court decided that the prosecu-
tion might produce testimony of gen
eral character to prove the existence of
conspiracy prior to the dates given in
the warrants, but that no evidence
could be permitted concerning the acts
of the defendants done anterior to the
dates mentioned in the warrants.
Roman then reviewed the circum-
stances which had led to the arrests.
These, he said, went back to the time
when the plan of the campaign was put
in force on the Smith Barry estate at
Tipperary, May 10th, and he proposed