Show Trial of the Irish Nationalist DUBLIN Sept 27 There U no abatement abate-ment of interest in the trial of the Nationalist leaders at Tlpperary Then is an impression that the government is trying to prolong the trial It was the desire de-sire of the crown prosecutor this morning that the cases be tried separately To this the defendants unitedly objected The magistrates at last yielded and decided in favor of a collective hearing Crown Prosecutor Ronn submitted with very bad grace and declared he bowed to the decision de-cision because he must He said he would refrain from expressing any opinion of its fairness The Nationalists are elated at scoring this point The sensational featrueof the rooming was the renewed attacs by dofeauants on Magistrate Shannon Aftec their protest thatShannon disregarded Wednesday they decided to bring objection in a more formal way They prepared a statement of the their reasons in the form of an 1 affidavit to which each defendant affixed his signature This joint affidavit the defendants took Into court this morning and attempted to present to the bench The magistrates who had received re-ceived no intimation of the defendants par pose were taken completely by surprise As soon as they understood tho nature of the document they peremptorily declined to receive it Instantly Ronan was on his feet denouncing the action of the defendants defend-ants It was difficult he declared to find language strong enough to fittingly characterize charac-terize it The document they sought to present was an infamous libel on Shannon Shannon himself pronounced the affidavit an attempt to make a scandal of justice This expression was greeted by defendants with roars of hilarious laughter When the preliminary matters were disposed of and the time had come for taking testimony testi-mony it was found that two of the defendants defend-ants were not in the court room and a short recess was taken to give time for the absent ones to be summoned It was decided to adjourn the case until Monday without any testimony |