Omaha daily bee., 1908-01-12
WRITES BOOK In JAIL
Irish Member Of Parliament Suffers
y, Few Inconveniences.
SERVING TINE FOR CONTEMPT
Mr.. Gennell Punished for Taking Part
in Cattle Drives.
LONG BAFFLED THE POLICE
Search Two Islands for Him While
He is at Home.
DEATH OF BANKER" PATTERSON
North Ireland Miser Bequeaths sixty
Cents % NeDhew and -Four
Hundred Thousaad to
Charity.
DEATH OF BANKER" PATTERSON

DbbASiNF Jan. ll.-fSpecial. l-Alr. Gin
nell, NJ p, who IL spending six months
In Kilmainham Jail for contempt Of court
IN connection with his cattle driving aEita-
tion, will have better time than the Irish
patriots who were confined there IN the
days OF Parneil. These men were treated
as criminals. but as Mr.. Ginnells offence
is technical only and consists in displaying
contempt for the court Of chancery. he Is
not treated as a criminal. He is allowed
TO wear his own clothes, to have his own
food sent in from outside the iail and to
receive limited number OF visitors every
day. He y also supplied with writing
materials AID books and he announces that
he is going to occupy his time writing a
book. The cell which he has been assigned
TO Is spacious and well lighted and he has
been allowed to add several articles OF
furniture, 30 that on the whole he win he
fairly comfortable during his enforced Sc
clusion.
Hides in Fathers House.
Mr. oinnell. by the way, displayed a
keen sense of humOr in his dealings with
the police just before his arrest After
his sentence had been pronounced he went
20 his fathers house In County westmeath,
secure I'm the knowledge that the intelligent
constabulary would never think OF looking
for him there, and there he remained for
three days while the police secured Ireland
and England for him. Then he appeared
at meeting to welcome some discharged
prisoners who had been serving a sentence
for cattle driving and before the police
could recover from their astonishment he
was off again and back to his fathers
house. where some more than usually in
telligent policemen found him twenty-four
hours later
Mr. Ginnell does not place much faith
IN the bargain which It Is alleged Mr..
Birrell has made to break up the grass
lands il cattle driving were stopped and
he has advised the people to lay up their
hazel waods for only a month or two, and
Elve Mr. Birrell the opportunity OF proving
his good faith. u the grass lands are not
broken up and the grazing leases are re-
y newed AZ, G4nneil advises the people 60
take down the hazels and take 70 cattle
driving again .4
death Of sBanLer,, -Fatseraon.
1isburn has lost curious character in
Banker Patterson. who died the other
day. leaving more than $4,000 He could
neither read nor write. and the will by
which he disposed OF this vast estate was
signed with an *" Banker Patterson
took his nickname from his business. He
made his fortune by lending money on
MORTGAGES 10 IaTneTb Nuu AIhucHptopAgs
and although he had the reputation OF being
keen and shrewd. he was never hard on
an unfortunate debtor In fact he has
demonstrated by his will that he possessed
q kindly heart. for he has left to several
OF the poorer OF his debtors amounts in
cash equal to the amount OF their mort
cages with the curious proviso, however,
that these iegacies shall not become paya-
bile until the legatee has paid off his mort
gage TO the executors OF the estate without
legal proceedings or other trouble There
are several small iegacies to relatives. In
c.1dlng one of GO cents to a nephew, and
the bulk OF the estate ls to be invested
and the income paid to his sister for life.
AT her death It is to be distributed among
various charities to be chosen by the ex-
ecutors
Almost everyone who has lived In Ireland
is familiar with the official envelopes
bearing the iegeHd ION Hts Majesty's serv-
Ice" In which the unfortunate taxpayer
receives his notices and in which nearly
an official documents sent out. The
North Dublin union has given the lead to
the Irish local authorities, which really
represent the national government Of Ire
land by adopting an envelope for all its
official business inscribed. II seirbhis ma
h-Eiresnn' con the Service Of Ireland')
and recommending It's use TO all other local
authorities. The arms OF Dublin and the
above inscription viii be the only insignia
appearing on IN, official stationery
Laborer Gets Biz Legacy.
James Nolan, an agricultural laborer OF
-elbridge, County Kildare. has Just been
notified that he is the heir TO $4,000. left
by his cousin. Mr.. Patrick White Of Brook
lyn NJ " who died in May, 1895. Nolan,
who Is about to start for America 10 take
possession Of his new found fortune, is 90
years old. and for several years he has
been an inmate Of the workhouse. as the
lnfirmities OF age made him unable to sup
port himself He declares that since he
earned that he was heir TO fortune. he
has received letters from more than 500
persons claiming relationship.
The Iyernian society is the name Of new
organization for the study OF Irish htera-
lure. history, archaeology, music and art.
Il Is 10 be conducted as an auxiliary to the
iaelic league. which concerns itself chiefly
Slth the revival OF the spoken language.
ana which has enough to do In this field TO
occupy ali its energies, Tie president OF
ne Ivernian society is the Rev, Canon
o'Ieary. a noted Irish scholar and the
,ocitty has the endorsement OF all the lead
ng students OF ancient Irish literature and
rt
Complaint is being made IN many quar-
ers about the use Of the Dublin telegraph
messenger corps as a recruiting ground fo-
I ne British army. II Is well known that
n ecruifing BY the OrdinAry means has been
failure Of late years in Ireland and now
ne authorities have turned their attent on
this very smart corps OF boys Military
irIH has been Instituted among the boys
nd the rule that when ths boys reS-h the
ne Of 10 they must leave the service Is
seing vigorously enforced Formerly they
we're allowed 20 remain until there were
'aoancies for them as letter carriers. or
other branches OF the service, but now
hese posts are being filled from other
ouroes. and the boys are discharged with
he plain intimation that the army Is al
Nlys open 70 them and offers them