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New Zealand Tablet, 1 April 1920, Page 18

FATHER O’DONNELL AND THE BRITHUNS - living liis verdict on British sincerity. Father T. J U Donnell in a letter to a friend in Melbourne, and pubhshed . in the Tribune (a portion of which we reproduced ~ last week s Tablet) in the following terms comments on the methods of justice meted out to him: . ' j: ~ Now to show the lengths to which these people went, a -++ V j in f ° t,^iese facts. The prosecutor was permitted _to ask me about my : SENTIMENTS as regards the rising of Easter .Week and Sinn Fein, etc. He deliberately said that he desired to show that if I had certain sentiments then it should be concluded that I had expressed them at Killarney. Such a thing was never heard of. But the Judge Advocate permitted it. And the reason I It was this: the prosecutor had some documents m my handwriting which it was said had been obtained by i a raid on the &lnn Fein quarters at Kerry and Cork, and these established me as a most dangerous person. If 1 had admitted certain things about the rebellion and the Sinn rein party these were to be produced; and then it would be contended that I was indeed as guilty as my sentiments and these documents showed. OF COURSE THE SAID DOCUMENTS WERE FORGERIES MADE IN AN IMITATION OF MY HANDWRITING BY STEALING MY LETTERS WHEN IN TI E PRISON COULD PRUSSIANS BEAT THAT? . What scoundrels they are, and to what depths they will go in their villainy. Spies broke into my lawyer’s office in Dublin, and stole his papers. Another came dressed as a priest and pretended to be a friend of mine, and another said lie was my cousin from New York and wanted to see all the. papers in the case. They tried to get the police to work up some other charge against me; but the police refused. We got much information from the Secret Service Department, and they were thus beaten at their own game. But I most certainly ran a great risk, and did a daring thing when I determined to fight this brood of liars, perjurers, murderers, and Prussian demons. I- beat them, and the world has had a good sample of what goes on in Ireland. The case attracted much interest here, in Canada, and America, as well as elsewhere. It cost me over one thousand pounds, and there does not seem much chance of getting any of that hack. But I have had the pleasure of showing up the English Huns in Ireland, who are doing there dark deeds so shameful that the Prussians in Belgium would never dare to attempt. WHAT HYPOCRITES THEY ARE. THESE ENGLISH! WHAT FOUL DEEDS DISHONOR THEM EVERYWHERE. IN INDIA WITH THEIR, MASSACRES, IN EGYPT AND IRELAND. SURELY THE WORLD IS HORRIFIED AT THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY THESE PEOPLE, WHO SAID THEY WENT TO AVAR FOR TATTLE NATIONS. HYPOCRITES! VIPERS! HOW SHALL THEY ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF HELL?