The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-12-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.  TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY.  The court was crowded when it opened on Friday by people anxious to hear the revelation, of the " Invincible," l'at Molloy, who had been remanded to prison by the Court for contempt. Molloy was brought into court by two prison warders, and he walked up into the witness-box and took the oath with the air of defiance he had exhibited on the previous day.  MoLLoir TuE Ist-vlNrint.E." "Where do you live ? " said the Attorney. General. "My present residence is Holloway gaol," retorted the witness amidst a titter of laughter. Proceeding in a more sober spirit he said his late residence was 43, York.street, Dublin. He had never been a Fenian, that he would swear, neither did he ever tell Mr. Walker (one of the solicitors engaged in the ease) that he had been a Fenian. fie did not know James Carey, nor did he ever see Frank Byrne till he went to America. A paper purporting te be the statement which witness made in Dublin to Mr. Walker was then handed to witnes-,but he declared that he had never made the statement, that he hail not seen it, that he had not signed it, and that no statement was written out in his presence. " The man Walker" took notes, but witness did not see them written out. The paper was not written out page by page. He would swear he never told Walker that he was the agent to a secret society which was bringing arms to different parts of Ireland. He received a letter from Walker asking him to meet him at the HO-tertian Hotel. He went, and then Walker told I he could tell -him all about himself. He mentioned a lot of things in connection with the Fenian organisation, and said he knew why witness went to America, and that Mr. Davitt, Mr. Biggar, and Mr. Kenny were connected with the Fenian organisation. He never told Walker that he conveyed arms. How Hu Ifumnum;En TnE " TimEs" AcENT. He led Walker on as he wanted to show up the " workings," presumably meaning the methods adopted by the Times of getting up evidence. Ile detailed how he got £ll out of -Walker on the pretence that he owed debts to friends, and that he could not leave Dublin till they were paid. He left his employ in Dublin without notice because he had a dispute with his parents and he made up his mind to go to America. He paid his expenses with money he had saved. lie remembered reading in the evidence of Farrell, the informer, that the name of Molloy was mentioned, but it was not his name. The AttorneyGeneral then read a long ()notation front the evidence of Farrell, the informer, in which a man named Molloy was mentioned several times as taking part in the conspiracy to attack and murder Mr. Barrett. Molloy, he stated, was to give an envelope to Mr. Barrett, and toe attack was then to be made on him. The wi!ness, after hearing this, still denied that he thought the Molloy mentioned in this evidence meant himself.  The Attorney -General then retired, having made very little out of the witness, and amid a buzz of excitement Sir C. Russell rose to crossexamine. Molloy said he had been back in Dublin since 1884, and had been employed in Dublin ever since. There was no concealment about his return.  Sir C. Russell : Well, I suppose the fact was, Molloy, that you were all the while humbugging this gentleman ?—Yes, that is it. (Laughter.)  , Pressed further by Sir C. Russell, he again stoutly declared that he never put his pen to paper before Mr. Walker, and that no paw was ever read over to him. In answer to Mr. Reid, he said he believed the name of Molloy was pretty common in Dublin. When he read the account in the paper of Farrell's evidence he did not think it applied to himself.