The Herald of Wales. — 1889-06-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE PARNELL COMMISSION. RESIMPTION OF THE SITTINGS.  At the ninety-first sitting of the Parnell Commiesion on Tuesday mowing, Mr. Ed. Harrington, M.P., presented his evidence. Cross-examined by Mr. Murphy, he defended the opinions that appeared in the "Kerry Sentinel" criticising Judge Lawson for sentiments that he paased in the county of Kerry. These criticisms, said Mr. Harrington, were perfectly )ustiSed, and if it was necessary again, he should repeat every one of them. Mr. Harrington complained that in the reperbv given of a certain meeting, at which he was pment, the Government did not report his speech denunciatory of crime. llir James Hannan asked witness what he =ant by referring to the Government. The Government had nothing to do with that inTdrY• In re-examination witness gave an explanation of a threatening notice—the matter, the work of his office boys, and for which he was convicted.  I.einn-r.1.1 I  Patrick Berry, who had been chairman of the Castle Island branch of the Laud League, said he had known nothing about the Horan letter untilit appeared in evidence. Of counw, everybody knew that Tim Horan had been secretary of the Castle Island branch Witness had been censured by the National League for having shaken hands with Earl Spencer. He maintained that the Land League did its utmost to , discourage crime. Father Godley, from Ballyburim, stated definitely that in his district there existed secret societies directly opposed to the objects of the tarsi League. Moonlighting was practised by ' men on their own hook. Daniel F. 0. Conner, secretary of the Abbeydawny branch of the League, also depra.d that the organisation always used its influence against crime. The rest of the evidence during the afternoon was on a type with this. Among.st the spectators in the Parnell Commission Court on Tuesday, was Mrs. Sullivan, wife of Alec Sullivan, suspected of complicity in the Cronin murder.  The attendance in the Parnell Court anWeds nesday morning was very thin, and at the outset the prooeedings were not interesting. Mr. O'Connor, the secretary of the Castlers' Land Branch of the Land League gave evidence with reference to different letters written by him. Then David Lym, a Killarney grocer, went into the box, and explained the manner in which the Killarney branch of the League was conducted. He also produced the books of the I branch.  Father Lafor, frou Killoghlin, in Co. Kerry, said that from the time the local branch of the Land League was orgrmiseel until it was there had not been an offence against Er d life or in the district. Indeed, to Ids thinking, and according to his eitperience, the league had had a good effect in preventing crime. As a matter of fact, the branch with which he was connected used to arbitrate in agrarian disputes. The court adjourned at four o'clock.  Mr. T. P. O'Commr, MP., was in the box atll the Parnell Commission on Thursday forenoon. He stated that he became connected with the Irish Press in 1867, and with the English Press in 1870. Shortly after his first election to Pattiament he became a member of the Land League, which, in his opinion, was an institution demanded by the circumstances of the time. Mr. O'Connor proceeded to give an account of his American tour in 1881. ,1 Mr. O'Connor denied in the moat explicit I rammer that the Irish Land League or National League had ever, in any fashion whatever, countenanced crime. He did not know that it I had been suggested that he had ever oountenawed crime, but if there ever was such a linggeetion it was entirely erroneous. He was Icross-examined by Mr. Ronan, who based his I questions for the moat part on Mr. O'Connor's took, "The Parnell Movement." Mr. &Colmar was questioned :at some length about the American Irish whom he met in America. He admitted that he called upon Ford on his arrival in New York, because Ford's paper had been collecting subscriptions for the Irish cause. He denied flatly that he ever said to Ford that Panaell had told him the first contributor to the Land League was the personage known as "Trans-Atlantic." I In the afternoon Mr. O'Connor gave evidence concerning farther experiences of his own in lAmerica, and about the state of Ireland as he ' knew it. He admitted that to denounce a particular instance of land grabbing might be to endanger the grabber, but to denounce the system as a whole was in his opinion to do undoubted good. In re-examination he put it down that there had always been agrarian crimes in 'real& The court adjourned at 4 o'clock.  Monmouthshire .fteeorder