Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-18
BRITISH CRUELTY.
a Case Irish Leaders Will Make
the Most Of.
R. W. NALLY DRIVEN TO DEATH

Developments of a COroner's Investiga-
tion-What Came of a Refusal to Tes-
tify for the London Times Against
PAMELA Course of Brutality That
Ended Only at the Grave-His Brother
Driven from His Bedside a Moment
Before the End-Trouble for Tories.
DUBLIN, Nov. 1S-The death of p. w.
Nally, the noted Irish National party
leader, who died Monday week in Mount
Joy prison and whose remains have just
been inferred in Glasnevin cemetery, near
this city, will undoubtedly prove one of
the sensational features of the battle to be
fought in parliament Immediately after
the reassembling Of the houses. For once
ii Is expected that the sympathies of even
some of the Tories will be enlisted in the
approaching inquiry, for it is claimed that
Nally's death was directly due to most
lrsh and Infamous treatment received at
the hands Of the keepers of Millbank
prison, London, where Nally was detained
previous to being transferred to Mount
JOY prison.
Charge of n Coroner's Jury.
The friends of Nally are not the only
people to make these charges; they are
not party charges-not the usual charges
made by Irish Natioualists against the
keepers of the English prisons in which
they have been unfortunate enough to
sojourn for periods of months or years.
The charges made were the result of an
Inquiry made by a coroner's jury in this
city. who, after hearing great deal of
testimony for and against the charges
made, after examining the keepers of the
two prisons, and eliciting from them
some most startling admissions, Monday
rendered verdict to the effect that P. w.
Nally, instead of dying from typhoid fe-
yer as announced by the prison officials.
died from the effects of the harsh and
cruel treatment the unfortunate Irish.
man had been compelled to endure in
Millbank prison.
Didn't Want the Prisoner to Live.
This treatment, according TO the ver-
dict of the jury, so shattered Nally's
health that he was practically in a dying
coudition when transferred to Mount Toy
prison. 1t was also intimated at the trial
that this transfer was not made with the
Intention of in any way benefiting the
prisoners health, but simply in order TO
prevent him from dying in Millbank
prison. 1t was the idea of the prison Off
cials, it is claimed, that if Nally died in an
Irish Jail the matter would not attract so
much attention as il he died in the heart
| of London.
Many Things Are Possible.
OF course it is possible, upon being sub
/ jected to a parliamentary investigation,
that the serious charges made against the
keepers of Millbank prison may dwindle
down to a comparatively small matter;
| but the facts remain that a coroner's jury
| which inquired into the cause of Nally's
death has most distinctly and emphati-
cally announced in its official decision
| that Nally's death was caused by most
harsh and cruel treatment received at the
hands of the prison officials of Millbank
| Jail
Will Make 1t Political Question.
! William O'Bren, John Dillon, and Jus,
| tin Mccarthy have had their attention
called to this matter, and they are already
arming themselves with facts gathered
| from the coroner's inquest and elsewhere
| in order to be prepared to make the death
of Sally a battering ram with which TO
make powerful onslaught upon the Con
servative government. Gladstone's atten-
| ton has also been called to the matter,
and it is expected that he will not let such
"A chance of pummelli1g the Tories escape
| him easily The Irish members claim
that the treatment of Irish political prison
ers is no whit better than the treatment
of anarchists and other political offenders
by the ear.
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