MR GLADSTON AND THE PHCENIX PARK TRAGEDY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 3

MR GLADSTON AND THE PHCENIX PARK TRAGEDY.

On the evening on which Itie murders .■wteiWWohimittea; -My (S-iydtftone allteudcd a reception afcihe bouse of tlie Austrian Ambassador., i Wliile 1 enjoying ths occasjon,the first. tele^r^m frpm -J^tibl in contyyikd jtjie mtefhgp'hcp q£' tne (! c^ime was received, ap'cl immediately (iesnatfihed to tne, «hiibasW<J'or V res^eQfla ajj^ iq&i vered to 1 Sir' "Wiiliim Tennon ' Harcpunt, who txndertook thelafcJt 01 coininumc.at ng the •^*^f swfe; m*™^ w'asrftiietjy.c lied aside Apa ukk-en into a pnyfcfe room, where li^ yv^ jnjtor ued or whai'had '-'occurred., ijlie natiurtt] pallor 'df ttfe old niati*s fkce became" aus >lutely , 4'o I^l^ Wf^ififti^P.^i 1 *" nds he staggered to gj jjTj^Qu^.^pj^s |fr| a moment it was tiioughtjie_woulil raiut, a ld'tTicre wap a, rushT.fpr ras^torain es, but gridually 'W^ov'ered, 1 infl n^lu! ing all proffered assistance, dematra*d in a broken 1 V&ici>, -to' «now the pirticuiars. At first he would njt believe tl« story. After lie had become convinced tlu re was tlitf Jieptjclj.'lad bee; i exaggerated, lie rallied, and, making a brief oxruse'to his host, entered a carriage, and was driven directly home, i nd he spent nearl}' the entire night writi ig and feadiiigielegrAtns, dictating "td 'Hi 8j secretary, and forming plans to meet the situation. ! A tiunhmons" teas sent fior the members -of-tW Cabinet to meetjhim at at his home on Sunday afteiupoln. S<> much other bUiiiieVs ' ib'rvHiirftWportance was trai^sap^ed, thjvt^ it was six jin the morning before the I'remier-.Ke-Ltejl. He was again at ninf . .: X^B JWjnisters found the Premier almost cn|med( by the ; intoliigence. . . . ■/• - : .1 I'l { j