Putnam patriot., 1910-06-17
A Crime Against the Irish Nation.
First Appearance. of the Forged Letters.
 Number Three

HOW riaorr FOUND THE LErrE Efss.
 Houston was Secretary Of the Irish
 Loyal and Patriotic League. He told of his negotiations with Pigntt, whom he had asked to secure the letters which might incriminate the Irish leaders. The accommodating Pigott, getting them. Houston sounded William I. Stead on the proposition of publishing articles on the subject In the Pail Mall Gazette, but Stead refused, saying he h ad lost VI i, ,oo0 in his "Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon sensation, and was not looking for anything except "sure things" In the money-making way. Houston accepted the letters, he said, on pigott's bare word, The stage WAS now set for the appearance of Rich. ard Pigott, of whom Harold Frederic, the London correspondent of the New York Times, wrote thus, In dispatch to that paper when he appeared on the witness stand
 X new historical figure has been added this week to the worlds rogues' gallery.
 Richard plgott Is sort of elderly Guiteau, miau, i'm agination and phys teal courage Bat In the collection of celebrated state senundrels, he will be mere often compared to Titus Oates.
 tlIs the purely sdeentitious olrcum stances that eisalt was born belated in the day of newspapers and popular ed. ueallon, which prevented hts doing as grave and erae mischief Us the wretch Oates achieved, As 1t is, he succeeded in seriously aAstting the political aad social state el his native country for nearly two years la inducing tens ot thousands of honest people to believe that Me. Parnell plotted murder, and in bringing on great statc tftal iavei- siag the expenditure ol over million dollars.
 Ky hts own word of mouth this Pi. gotl k shown new 10 have been for years most utterly disesedlted man in Dublin, ekingo out squaiid existence by begging, saindling and hlscsmail. ing, and to have been known as an it- re,eemable scoundrei and unconseion- able liar to everybody in town, No ifishman would lend him shilling or even listen to his stories; and vel he was able to wheed le nearly slo,enfrom ,k.4 4.,. Al. f.,.nt.s and fla atlx yn naI.,, oil hts clumsy forgery upon the Lon don Times, by merely appealing with plausible glioness 10 their political ss- ptralioa and animosities. IL Is this revelation which has the deepest signi- fleaaee. for IL Is an object lesson on the dull ignorance of the Irish character, dlsdain for Irish opinion and siolid seli-eon fidenee. as against everything Irish. which now, ,As . eensa " ago, make English rule in Ireland as rtdic- 1 uloas IS It Is exaspcratfng.
 Pigoll was . confessional Irishmsn-- the son of tss manager of the Dublin Nation. when that paper, sixty years ago, was awakening Irish hopes by the 1 genius of is brilliant writers.
 He was the owner of tAs fiax q Ifs- land. As . collector cf eaads 1ps 4f families of Irish fasntiiss Aevn guilty of dishsoe~ty. Aa1l e
 him out of esap.cyWers tp " hoQ
 lie went on shs staSd en lUoruasy l 9Oth. isss. and by the nexs mosntns l the Times cAss wes . wrvck~ Russei forced him to confess thai e the tune Ihas paper was about to publish "far- nsliism and. .Crimess rtsoss wrose so Aschesshop wslsh. sinfornins him q Ihs blow shat vas about ts fall ea the