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Show t!)&ria!e$S Iris!) tlm$. With Compliments, Directory United Irish League, 3? Upper O'Connell Street. Dublin'. John E. Redmond, M. 1., President. 7th June, 1902. Ballyhauis, June 3. Messrs. Harrel t and Henn, 11. M.'s, sat in the court I house here this morning for . the hear- j ing of the charges of boycotting and in- j timidation preferred, against Michael Morley, Thomas Lyons, Thomas Wal- dron, John Gtogan. all residing in. the Ballyhaunis district. On the silting o fthe court evidence was given for the prosecution. . Mr. Kirwan said he. did not intend to examine any witnesses for the defense. He delivered a forcible and argumentative argumen-tative address in favor of his clients. The prosecution, he contended, arose from a desire on the part of the government govern-ment to kill the people's organization, and so leave the country at their mercy. It was a stand-up fight between the government and the United Irish League, which was trying to safeguard the rights of the people. He-asked the court to dismiss the case brought against his clients. ' At the conclusion of Mr. Kirwan's remarks re-marks there was applause in court, where, b ythat time, a considerable number of peopel were assembled. Mr. Morphy replied at length. The chairman announced that in the case of Messrs. Morley and Lyons, the bench had decided upon convicting, and they sentenced them to three months' imprisonment each, with hard labor. The charges against Messr. Waldron and Grogan were dismissed. Mr. Kirwan said in the case of Michael Mich-ael Morley, one of the defendants convicted con-victed and directed to be imprisoned with hard labor, he (Mr. Kirwan) had respectfully to ask the magistrates to alter the sentence, .so far as the condition con-dition relating to hard labor was concerned. con-cerned. The grounds on which he made the appliactlon were that for some time past for over six weeks he had been under the doctor's care. He had been attended by Drs. Maguire and Crean, and at the present moment was in a very bad state of health. For this reason he would ask their worships to change the sentence, so far as hard labor la-bor was concerned. Mr. Harrel said they would not alter the sentence, but they would attacha-Jiote attacha-Jiote to their warrant requesting the governor of the prison to have the attention at-tention of the prison doctor drawn to Morley's condition. The prisoners were then removed from court,-, and were conveyed to Castlebar prison by the 9 p. m. train. MR. J. P. FARRELL, M..P., SUMMONED. SUM-MONED. On Monday" morning, 2nd Inst., at 8 a. m., Constable Lawlor of Ballaghade- reen canea at the residence of Mr. J. P. Farrell, M. P.; and served him with a copy of a summons, charging him with having incited certain persons, whose names are unknown, unlawfully to take part in a criminal conspiracy to Induce certain persons, whose names are unknown, not to pay rents to Lord De Frenyne of J. C. Murphy. He is ordered to appear as a defendant on the hearing of said complaint at Frenchpark petty sessions on the 11th of June, 1902, at 1-' o'clock, noon. Mr. Farrell yas. on. duty at the De Freyne estate for three weeks, during which he addressed two meetings, .-It is supposed that the speeches made by Mr. Farrell at these meetings constitute the offense for which he is summoned.. ..- Derry, June 3. A special meeting of the Derry torporation was-called this afternoon by the mayor, on a requisition requisi-tion signed by eleven nationalist members, mem-bers, to have a resolution rescinded authorizing au-thorizing the expenditure of 400. of the public rates for coronation decorations. decora-tions. Twelve nationalist members attended at-tended out of sixteen, and there was a particularly ful! muster of the unionists. union-ists. Alderman Thomas .McCarter moved that the resolution to. spend. 400 out of the rates be rescinded. Councilor McNulty strongly supported the rescinding re-scinding of the resolution. ' Councilor Patrick Crampsey, who, on the previous occasion, was the only nationalist na-tionalist to object, reiterated his vehement ve-hement protest against the rates being used for such a purpose. He added they might have their Jubilation, but it might turn out something. else than a jubilation. , Councilor McCarron, trades representative, repre-sentative, joined in the protest against the rates being used as was proposed, j A division was taken. .-with the. result that the motion to rescind was defeated b ya majority of 24 to 11. NATIONAL PROTEST. Belfast. June 3. At the monthly meeting of the council of the County Borough of Belfast, the lord mayor moved that, "A congratulatory addresn be presented to their ; majesties, the king and queen." Councillor N. J. M'Donnell said on behalf of himself and his colleagues, the Catholic, representatives of the board who represented the Catholic portion of the community of Belfast, some 80,000 or 90,000 people, he nro- tested against any address being presented pre-sented from that corporation so long as the king was forced to make a declaration dec-laration insulting to Catholics generally. gener-ally. The lord mayor said he had hoped that on such an occasion the motion would have been passed unanimously. For thercsolution, 39; against, 6. Those who voted against were the Nationalist members Councillors Lov-erty, Lov-erty, Magee, J. J. M'Donnell, N. J. M'Donnell. M'Entee and O'Dempsey. Sligo, June 2. At Sligo today, before County Court Judge O'Connor Morris, the hearing of the appeal against the decision of removables Smith and Harrel Har-rel at a special court in Ballymote on , April 24 and 2,5, sentencing Peter James M'Dermott. D. C, a-nd Michael Gorm-ley, Gorm-ley, joint secretaries of the Buninad-den Buninad-den branch of the United Irish league, to two months' imprisonment with hard labor, came up for hearing. The charge on which the defendants were convicted was conspiracy under the criminal law amendment Act 1S87. against one John Durkan, to compel him to give up a farm which he hal taken. When the case was called today to-day the court was crowded, amongst those present being Messrs. John O'Dowd, M. P., and. B. Collery, ex-M. P. Mr. Howley (solicitor) appeared for the appellants, and Mr. Hynes. B. L. (Instructed by Mr. W. n. Fenton, crown solicitor), prosecuted. After hearing statement of counsel on both sides. Judge Morris said he would reduce this penalty by one fortnight, fort-night, and sentence the traversers to six Aveeks' imprisonment, but he would not make them first-class misdeamean-ants. misdeamean-ants. ' . The defendants were allowed fom time to make necessary preparation before going to pri-.'on. COERSION IN "GAL WAY. At the Ballinasloe petty sessions on Saturday. May 31. before Colonel Long-bourne. Long-bourne. R. M.; A. C. Newell, It. M.; Lord Clancarty, It. R. Wade. J. A. Huggins. Thomas Byrne. J. J. O'Shaughnessy, Colonel Thornhill and J. W. Hynes, J. P.'s, the case came up fojv hewing of D. J. Flower, at the prosecution of the king v. William William Hastings, Ballinasloe. for publishing pub-lishing articles in the Western News, re the taking of grass lands," etc. Mr. Blake, crown solicitor; prosecuted. prose-cuted. Mr. Hastings, the defendant, said lie would ask the crown solicitor to proce the jurisdiction of the court, and he also wanted to know what act he (crown solicitor) was proceeding under, un-der, as he (defendant) was not advised by either counsel or solicitor owing to the fact that the sentence was vague. Mr. Blake said they were proceeding under the Act of Edward III. ' . Evidence was then given of the registry reg-istry of the rper and its purchase by the police. Mr. Blake , then read cx-''- tracts from the Western News of articles ar-ticles condemning grazing and grabbers, grab-bers, reports of United Irish league nuetings. and letters from correspondents. correspond-ents. The chairman said that the majority of the magistrates were of opinion that the defendant should be bound to the. peace in two sureties of C"0 each and himself in 100 for his good behavior fcr twelve months or in default to go to jail for twelve months. Mr. Byrne, J. P. I de.-dre to say that I dissent from the decision of ths? bench. I have listened to the number of articles which Mr. Blake read, and I have come to the conclusion that they do not sustain the charges. I have asked myself if those articles havt; incited in-cited anybody to commit crime to anybody any-body in the district iround to which the articles have referred, and I have come to the conclusion that they have ' not: whether it is :vi.i.j to tne goca I !' mse of the people .r the v?nr o; m-1 m-1 tiuence of the papers, no crime has been committed. The prosecution Is brought under a rusty and obselete a."-t, which has not been used for fifteen years, and which was then unearthed for certain cases. I don't agree with a conviction under an obselete statute which Is revived to seive a purpo.se. The chairman here made an interruption. inter-ruption. 'Mr. Byrne I have a right to say what I" think is proper, Colonel Long-bourne. Long-bourne. I think the case should be brought under a newer and more modern mod-ern act, and if the charges were more specific they might be grievously affected af-fected and tried by the proper authority, authori-ty, instead of by a statute manufactured manufac-tured in Dublin castle (applause in court). The Defendant Pending an appeal. The Chairman There is no appeal. The Defendant The sentence of six-months six-months is heavy, and may I get time to find bails? Mr. Newell, R. M. It is usual to give time. The defendant got until Thursday to find bail and the court rose. ' THE MORLEY ESTATE SETTLEMENT SETTLE-MENT PROBABLE. Mr. T. W. Russell, M. P., who was to have addressed a meeting of the tenants ten-ants on the Morley estate at Dowra, County Cavan, on Saturday, 31st ult., decided ultimately on postponing his visit to a future date. Mr. Russell's decision, communicated by wire' to the secretary of the tenants' combination, us cuieiij, ll nut euwitij, uuc iu mc fact that negotiations opened within the last few days are at present in progress with a view to arranging an amicable settlement between the tenants ten-ants on the estate and the proprietors, with, it is believed, reasonable hopes of an issue satisfactory to the tenants. THE NOLAN-FARRELL ESTATE. Ballyhaunis, May 31. Mr. Hazel, agent on the above estate, held an office of-fice here today to collect rents from the Logboy portion of the estate. The tenants ten-ants were willing to pay if an abatement abate-ment was granted, but the agent point blank refused to give any concession, and no rents were paid. A similar occurrence oc-currence happened yesterday at Clare-morris, Clare-morris, where he held an office also. The tenants on the Ballyhowley portion por-tion refused to pay until a final settlement settle-ment was made with the Logboy tenants. ten-ants. Mullingar,' June 4. At the opening of Mullingar quarter sessions his honor. Judge Curran, addressing the grand jury, said: "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen gentle-men of the grand jury, there is only one case to go before you, a case in which a man is charged with breaking into stores on the railway. I very sincerely sin-cerely congratulate you on the very satisfactory state of the county." ' TJenagh, June 4. County Court Judge. H. Moore, K. C, opened the Trinity sessions for the Nenagh division of the County Tipperary. Addressing the grand jury, he said there was only one case to go before the grand jury, and that was a very short one. It was a case in which a prisoner was charger with having stolen a donkey. Killarney, June 3. County Court Judge fchaw opened the business of the Killarney quarter sessions. His honor, addresisng the grand jury, said h3 was glad to be able to tell them that their work was very light. There was only one bill to go before them for the stealing steal-ing or embezzlement of a postal order. This was-a small case, and the only one, which showed that the district was In a very satisfactory state. .' The representatives of the league have been most successful at the late local government elections throughout the country, a few of the most noteworthy note-worthy being Donegal. There were only five contests, which., resulted in the defeat of Captain McCIintock. Colonel Col-onel W. J. Hamilton, Captain Rickey and Captain Hamilton, landlord and t unionist representatives. In West-meath. West-meath. Sir Walter Nugent,. Bart., was replaced by a United Irish leaguer. In Sligo the new council, is now entirely nationalist. In the County Down the gross results of the elections for district dis-trict councilors show that the new boaid will consist of twenty-eight nationalists na-tionalists and twenty-four unionists, leaving a nationalists majority of four, which they can make' workable by the co-operation of three additional members mem-bers and the capture of the chair. In ! Galway the league captured twelve out of the sixteen seats. In Longford Mr. Farrell, M. P., had a great league victory. vic-tory. In Limerick the sitting ' representative. repre-sentative. Lord . Emly. has been dis-, dis-, placed by J. Sheedy (U. I. L.) In Clare the landlord representatives were swept asidt by the leaguers. In Tipperary and Cork the league candidates were also successful. In Fermanagh there are now ten nationalists elected on the county council and ten unionists. From other counties returns have yet to be made. S COERCION IN. THE WEST. Claremorris, 6th June. Today in the sessions court, before Messrs. Starkie. R. M.: Jephson, R. M.; Valentine Blake and Dr. Maguire, Mr. J. T: Lyons of" Claremorris was sentenced to two months' imprisonment imprison-ment on a charge of intimidating a boy named Conroy at JDskerlavalla, whose father was the occupant of an evicted farm. CRIMELESS" MID-CORK. County Court Judge Bird commenced the business of the Macroom quarter sessions on Wednesday, t4h June, but there were no crown cases for disposal. Yet Mr. Wyndham thinks it advisable, in ,order to maintain the peace of the district, to institute a coercion prosecution prose-cution against two prominent leaguers in Millstreet Messrs. P. J. Rahilly, D. C, and J. Fitzpatrick. . . Sligo. Friday, 6th June. Today before Removables Harrell, R. M and Brown. R. M.. constituting a coercion court. Mr. P. A. McHugh. M. P.; Mr. Bernard McTernan. T. C. and Mr. John George Quilty were summoned sum-moned at the instance of the constabulary constabu-lary for an alleged offense of unlawful conspiracy. Mr. McHugh wah not present in court and was hot professionally represented. The court decided to issue a warrant for Mr. McHugh's arrest, and adjourned ad-journed the . hearing until. Wednesday week. , - |
