THE TIMES-PARNELL COMMISSION.
PARNELL'S CROSS-EXAMINATION CONTINUED ARCHBTSHOP "WALSH IN THE BOX. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I ' London, Btb May. Mr. Parnell's cross-examination was coninned before the Commisaion to-day. He , .greed to produce his secretary's (Camp(ell's) shorthand note 9of letters dictated to iim. Sir B. Webster stated that witness heques showed that payments had been node to MCafferty and Cnrley (Invinciblos) , md other suspects confined in Kilmainhau 1 Jaol. Mr. Parnell explained that these )»yments were mads before the sus)eots were charged with any offenoe, md rebuked Ms counsel (Sir Charles Russell) for not seeing that all the ao<!Unents bearing on the point were produced. Further cross-examination was adjourned until these documents could be obtained. Archbishop Walsh was then called, and leposed that the Irish. Bishops now enoouriged their clergy to- assume responsible positions in Ihe League. He considered the Land and National Leapnes were a defensive necessity. The Attorney-General objected to the witness giving: his opinion to the effect that the League had caused a reduction in crime, and Sir James Hannen, President of the Commission, ruled that an abstract question as to the workini; of the Loague was inadmissable, and tho facts only must bo stated. - __— —
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 110, 10 May 1889, Page 2
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196THE TIMES-PARNELL COMMISSION. Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 110, 10 May 1889, Page 2
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