Putnam patriot., 1910-06-24
A Crime Against the Irish N,,a-
First Appearance Of the Forged t...
 Number FOar.I
THE FLIGHT or THE Foratp

The court room roared with ianybto.
 Patrick Pagan did not send the asaev explained the witness, and the faa,t. came a eonvulsion. Then Sir fsb..s-.
 Russell produced letter after letter f,a,s Pigott 10 Forster, from which if .n
 peared that the trustful statesman xs. continually giving Pigott sums ra,.
 ing from s250 to s1 900 to go 10 4 n1e,;e.
 Australia, and .other places to which
 Pigott never remembered to ga A. each new letter added to the lauvb,., in the court room, Pigott became so r,,- tied that he gabbled uninteIligiblv ana the hearing adjourned until he eoula regain his reason.
 So the week ended. The Commiss;on was 10 resume its sessions on the fol. lowing Tuesday, Feb. 18th. on th., day there died suddenly, Prof. Maguir
 who was to have been summoned as . witness. He was the conspirater who supplied Houston and Pigott with funds. His death gave rise to famors of poison, and questions were asked about them in the House of Commons It was the first approach of The irage. | dy which was to sober the laughing faces that now greeted every mention of Parnellism and crime.
 When the Commission met that day | Pigott was not there. Pafnell applied for and secured warrants for hIs arrest for forgery and perjury, at Che same time promising to provide for the i'm. poverished swindler's wife and chil. dreH. Sir Charles Russell then jn- formed the Commission that on satur. day Pigott called on Henry Laboachere and offered to make full confession of the forgery. Labouchere declined to listen to him unless witnesses were present, and George Augustus ~alawas l summoned. In his presence Pigott confessed the whole thing and signed l the con fessien. Sir Charles Russell charged that behind Pigott, Houston and Mcguire there was foul eonspira- cy, and he declared thai Pigolt had l made his escape assisted by body l guard consisting of an Irish constable | and two Scotland Yard detectives
 To the last Pigott remained the ire 1 sistibly comic figure he had been from I the moment he took the stand The | Attorney General now read letter 1 written by Pigott on Sunday the night 1 following his confession, in which he 1 said: sl informed MT. Labouchere on Saturday that forged all the letters I l gave to The Times. That is not soi The reading of the letter was inter. rupted by wave of laughter. l When order was restored Pigott's l letter was found to contain revised 1 confession, to the effect that he forged the body of certain letters ard one Casey the signatures. The letter ended 1 with the characteristic whine about his needy wife and family, which was feature of all Pigott's letters, the black mailing ones included.
 Sir Charles Russell then got interest ed in the question, who gave Pigott the money to flee with. He had only s25 at the time of his flight. He did not succeed in ascertaining.
 Now came the revelation of the way in which the forgeries were detected. It was due 10 the acumen of Patrick Eagan. He found the clew in Lincoln, Nebraska, while studying the fac-simi-
 
 les printed in The Times. The sigma lures attributed to Eagan were remark ably good. He found in the text ex- pressions and abbreviations peculiar 10 himself. Puzzling over this, Pagan discovered that one letter signed with his own name, purported 10 have been written at a certain address in Paris, and the recollection instantly flashed over him that Pigott was the only man to whom he had ever given that ad- dress. MT. Eagan then played Sher. lock Holmes. He secured specimens of Pigott's writing, submitted them 10 experts, together with the forgeries, and found under the microscope simi- larities which proved Pigott the forger.
 
 In July, lsss, Parnell was called out of the House of Commons to meel stranger. IL was young American priest, Rev. Maurice J. Dorney ofGhi. cago, who gave him package saving that il had been placed in his hands the night before he sailed from New York with instructions to deliver il 10 Parnell alone. Parnell opened lhe pack age and found il to contain mass of evidence which Eagan had collected, proving Pigott the criminat. Nilh these in his hands, Parnell demanded the investigation, and thus followed the train of events that had appaFent- ly ended in Pigott's flight, but had not ended there. On Wednesday ihe A. torney General received and read to the Commission letter written hy figoii, in Paris, whither ne had fled, in which Pigott admitted that LaboucheFs re port of the visit to his home, on -alnf- day, was correct, and gave full detalis of the way in which the forgefies were committed.
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