St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-05
HE THINKS lyman CRAZY.
EY-NiKiSTER PAT EcAN'S VIEW or
MUNGER OWE.
THE IRISH CONSPIRACY.
The London Times Second Effort
to Connect the Assassination
of Cavendish With Parneil and
His Followers-lt Is searching
America. France and Ireland
for Evidence.

ST. LOUIS. June 4.-Hon. Patrick
Egan, ex-minister to Chill, who was
closely related to the late Charles Stew
art Parneil and Michael Dayitt in affairs
OF the Irish Land league, when seen
last night in regard to T. j. Tynan's
book. containing startling confessions
and charges relative to the Irish In
vincible conspiracy. which resulted in
the Phoenix park assassination, said:
ut is stated in New York that Tynan's
writing and publication of this book is
at the instigation of the London Times,
which is believed to be making second
attempt to connect the late Mr.. Parneil
and the Parnellite party with the ex-
IRENE or Inyincible wing of the Irish
agitators charged with The assassination
of Cayendish. The Times object in
doing this is said to be that of throwing
such discredit GU the present home rule
movement and the English Liberal
party as to result in Tory victory at
the next English election. which may
now occur almost any day. owing to the
dwindling majority OF tile Liberal vote.
The result to be accomplished. should
the Times be able to convince England
that Parnell and his followers in the
land league were cognizant of the
scheme of assassination, would be a
vindication of its own
ATTACKS ON PARNELL
and others of the Irish leaders in the
famous. but now discredited, series of
articles on 'Parnellism and Crime
which. appearing in the Times. led to
the clearing of Parnell through the dis
covery of the Pigots forgeries.
II know of my own knowledge that
the Times has been engaged in this sec
Ond movement, now, for the past two
years. l also know that the Times has
emissaries in this country at present
engaged In the search for evidence that
may 20 to prove that Parnell or the
land league was cognizant of the plans
of the extremist wing of the Irish agita.
tors, the wing that urged the employ
ment of force in the struggle against
England and that advocated assassina-
tion. do not express an opinion as to
what may or may not have led lyman to
write and publish this book.
81 cannot pass any Judgment on the
correctness of his details as to the for
nation of the Inyincibies. or as to the
plans for the assassination of Caven-
dish or of Forster. know nothing of
the Invincibles or of the
ASSASSINATION PLANS.
Eat the time of the murder of Caven
dish was living in Paris.
The charge that ParDell knew of
these plans or that he was aware of the
determination to keep the Office of chief
secretary for Ireland vacant by assaS-
sinati0n, or that he urged more vigor-
Gus action waen the Invincibles failed
to assassinate, is absurd on the face of
it. By none will it be more quickly dis
credited than by those members of the
British parliament who served with
Parnell and knew him. If Mr.. Parnell
or the land league, or any Of Parnell's
followers, had had any connection with
those crimes tie fact would surely have
become knawn, because the London
Times ransacked Ireland. France, the
United States and England for evidence
that would establish this connecting
link, buying up every one it could,
pending in all over 81, 600. 900. and then
failed i'll the attempt. cannot account
for Tynan's charges except on the the
ory that he may be mentally unsOund.
If he really was the No. l of the con-
spiracy ending in the assassination of
Lord Cavendish, is it likely that he
would acknowledge it, even though he
might be protected by extradition? l
do not know whether or not the United
States would give him up were de-
mand made by England, but it seems to
me that no man who had really been en-
gagged in such conspiracy and murder
would publish the fact to the world"