A SENSATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 7

A SENSATION.

"PARNELLISM AND CRIME." ARTICLES WHICH DISCREDITED HOME RULE CAUSE. AUTHOR'S CONFESSION. Cj Tclegr»i)li.-P!csi AfuociaUon.— Copyii K lit (Received April 8, 10 a.m ) LONDON, 7th April. A .'■cns.itioii has been caused by mi article in Bin ck wood '« Magazine, written by Sir Robert Andn-Kon. The wiitcr naively confesses that he, while at the Home Office, was the author of the Times' "Parnellism and Crime" article* in 1887— articles which discredited the Gladstone Home Rule cause. Sir Robert Anderson, banister-at-law, was for some yearn nd'visei at the Home Office in matters relating to political crime. Hi> publications includo "Sidelights on Home Rule." He married a sister of the ninth Eiirl of Drogheda. The series of articles "Parnellism nnd Crime " formed an indictment of the chief Nationalist lenders'. As a result a special commission was *et up, and after an elaborate trial (extending to 128 days) Mr. Parnell was cleared of the charge of having been personplly guilty of organising outrages, but his party were declared to have been guilty of incitements to intimidation. A .M>ii6ational incident in th« c.T-e w.is tho flight and Miicide of Pigott, who had imposed upon the Times vith forgeries.