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Show REFUSED PERMISSION TO VISIT PulSOIRS Irish Member of Parliament Gets Himself Into Trouble Through Speeches. I.OXPOX. July IS, i::4J p. m'. Speeches which he had made to prisoners, describing describ-ing them as martyrs, and demonstrations held bv the prisoners when be visited them were given as the reasons by the crown attorney why Laurence Glnnell. ish Nationalist member of parliament for North Wcslnieath, had been retused re-mission to visit Irish prisoners In England when hearing of the charge against him of attempting to gam admission ad-mission into the Knutsfor.l barracks was resumed in the Uow street police court tUTho" crown attorney raid that when Glnnell visited the Irish prisoners at btat-ford btat-ford he told them they had done more for tho Irish cause than anybody else nnd that thev wore looked upon as niartvrs. On a similar visit to the prison at Wandsworth there was a disturbance among the prisoners, who carried dinned din-ned n round on their shoulders. After this Incident an order wns issued refusing him permission to visit any places where Irish prisoners yere detained, de-tained, and he was arrested when he tried to gain adndsslon at Knutstord barracks under the name of I.ebries ilr-Fingle. ilr-Fingle. Mr. Ginned was fined 100. He was given the alternative of six weeks Imprisonment and was allowed six weeks In which to pay the fine. Laurence Glnnelb was arrested at the detention barracks at Knutsford on July If.. On being arraigned be protested to the magistrate against Ida arrest, saying there was no case against him. The name Mi Flngle, be asserted, was Irish for Glnnell and the whole incident eould easily be explnined. He was remanded for trial and released under bond. Mr. Glnnell yesterday caused a short suspension of the sitting of (he house of commons when lie refused to wdtbdraw when ordered to do so by the speaker. |