Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-19
NALLY'S SAD FATE.
1t Promises to Give the Tories
Much Trouble.
THE TEMPTER FROM THE TIMES

And How His Offers Were Spurned by
the Prosecuted Prisoner-Liberty and
Wealth offered for Testimony Against
Parnel1-The Disclosures of Snug
gled Letter-Attorney General Webster
Speaks n Good Word for the Worlds
observation-disclosures Foreign News.
LONDON, Nov ia letter is published
iu connection with the disclosures in re-
gard to the coroner's jury verdict to the
effect that P. w. Nally, the Irish Nation
alist who died recently in prison, had
b,en so terribly treated in prison that his
death was due to harsh and cruel treat
ment at the hands of British prison off,
cials instead of to typhoid fever, as those
officials announced. The letter referred
to was smnggled out of Nally's prison by
an agent of the Irish Nationalists through
the assistance of a prison warden. 1t was
addressed to prominent Nationalist, and
describes an interview Nally had with a
creS emissary of The Times.
Was offered Liberty and Money.
1t was previous to the sitting of the
Farnell commission that Nally was Wis
tied in prison by an emissary of The
Times named Thompson, and it is this
experience, described in the letter re-
ferred to, which is published. Nally
wrote: Thompson abused Michael Davitt.
saying that he DavitD had spoken badly
of me. / replied that l did not believe
him. Thompson then abused Parnell
and said that he had spoken badly of me.
Il f,lA II tn1.1 Ia of nax-
lit, that did not believe him. Then
Thompson said: 4 am in { position to
offer you liberty and liberal payments il
you will serve The Times"
Proposals Indignantly Rejected.
Continuing, the prisoner wrote of Thomp-
sons offer: Il felt like a savage, and was
ready to jump up and strangle him or to
knock his brains out with a chair. God
quickly gave me better thoughts, and re-
piled in as mild tone as / could assume:
Go back and tell those whom you represent
that Pat Nally will not become traitor
to his country for all the gold that has
passed through England's mint since it
was founded, nor for the highest honors
England is able to bestow.' Thompson
replied: Think how glad your old parents
would be to see YOU l replied: They
would rather see me a corpse than q
traHor to my country.
Couldn't Pump the Prisoner.
sThompson." the dead mans letter con-
tinues "then protested friendship for Ire
land and lot of similar rubbish in orde r
to try and draw me out. He wanted to
know if Dasitr carried a revolver, and
replied in substance to all his questions:
1.-THE judges were to ask me should rot
reply to even them.' Finally upon rising
81. 1T IL
stand each other. VIII my promises of
reward for you or fear of punishment in
duce you to speaks' No. said positive
ly in reply. l have not mentioned oae-
half of what he said because it is useless
to do So" Thompson also produced a
number of letters alleged to have been
written by certain patriot prisoners "urg-
ing me to tell ALL told Thompson that
/ was confident that all these letters were
forgeries."
Weakens Balfour's Position.
The story of Nally's sufferings has ere
ated a sensation hardly inferior TO that
caused by the Pigott revelations On all
sides are heard bitter denunciations of the
government for permitting such brutal
ity, and it is believed in Liberal circles
that Balfour's position as leader will be
greatly weakened at the opening of parlia-
ment by this new claim of prison abuses
under his administration, and presuma-
bly, with his consent. Nally's friends
charge that it was the intention of the
government authorities that he should
not live out his term in prison, and that
the officials in whose custody he was un-
derstocd this"
Done to Death for a Purpose.
They did not want the story of the at
tempt to secure him as witness for The
Times to reach the house. and he was
gradually done to death with that object.
The smuggled letter. telling the very
story that they dreaded, aud emphasized
by Nally's death, has come upon them
with crushing force, because it was unex-
pected They had hoped that the secret
would die with Nally. The story OF
Nally's Imprisonment and death, with
The Times episode, are to be printed for
extensive use in the general election.
Every English aud Scotch, as we'll as
every Irish voter. will have an opportuni
ty to read it,