OBITUARY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2374, 2 June 1906, Page 6

OBITUARY.

PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, May 31. I Air Michael Ouvitt died alter mid- | night at a private Hospital in Dubiin. I (Mr Davitt was born in Ireland |on March doth, 1340. He began work I when ten years old in a Lancashire cotton mill. In 1857 he lost his rigid 1 arm through a machinery accident. : He was employed as news-hoy, planner's devil and assistant letter-carrier | subsequently. He joined the Leman Brotherhood in 1864 and was am--:-j ed and tried in London for treason land felony in 18i0, and sentenced to J If) years' penal servitude; released on i ticket-of-leave in It'll ; with the late Air Parnell and others no founded tin* i Irish Land League in 1879. He was ' arrrested on a charge ol making a seditious spech tin- same yea: hut the : prosecution was abandoned. Mr Davitt then went to the l nited States til America to organise the Auxiliary Land League Organisation in 188 U. He was arre sb rtly alter his i i turn in 1881, and sent hack to penal servitude, he was released on May , hth, liv'd, arrested in I>s3, and tried under the law ol King Kdward 111. tor seditious speech and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Deceased was first elected to Parliament tor County Meath v. lien a prisoner in Portland Convict Prison in 1882, but was disqualified by special vote ot the House of Commons for non-ex-pirv ot sentence for treason-felony, tie unsuccessfully contested Waterford Cit\ in 1891; was M.P. foi Norl Meath in 1892 ; unseated on petition, and returned unopjxised fur Northeast Cork the same year. He resigned in 1 <93. owing to bankruptcy pro- • : Nor t Meath election petition. In 1895, while in Australia, he was returned unopposed tor Hast K.-rrv and >l-111 .Mayo, and r« signed in 1899. Mr Davitt hqs written several hooks.)

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