| Show THE tit ehnts solicitor artates a station bi his LOS DOK feb 15 parnell was present at to days session of alie purnell flames solicitor of the was furl lier croas examined he offered in evidence evid enco a schedule of all the pie natures 0 parnell he possessed lie said that nells writing varied considerably sider ably and produced a letter in which name was written in six different ways justice hannan ordered the letter to be photographed witness den ed he lad heard eliat pigott and the league clerk he interviewed in ireland had a grievance against pai nell pigott made a stain lory declaration that solicitor lewie offered him if he would swear he forged the letters said to have been written by parnell the times paid the wit res had pigott batched and traced him into lh company of labouchere Libou chere he paid houston secretary of the irish loyal and patriotic union altogether no bargain was made when tta letters were first brought to the wies their genuineness was to be tested first saw pigott and told liim of he had had with the Boli and the latter sent pigott several 10 notes pigott showed witness a letter from solicitor him pigott of baling admitted he forged alie letters and his reply whereupon witness required that s statutory declaration be made in which pigott detailed all alie communications between himself and solicitor including the offer of one thousand thoua and pounds by lewis on behalf of labouliere if he would swear he bad forged the letters the bbate ment caupell a sensation did not tell him of the correspondence he lid biad archbishop calah of dublin regarding the letters he never heard of aliis until lie heard it mentioned in court last evening paid if the parnell letters were forgeries then the writing of with the names of egan baitt and pJ prelly elly of tyrone have been forged the body of six disputed parnell letters was in the writing 0 campbell macdonald manager of alie tunes that in october be irot five carooll and six eean letters he stipulated that their authenticity roost be tested before the payment of the price houston said he gave for them when the okella and davitt letters were tested he gave houston the exact sum expended in gaining possession of them witness had asked about the difference in ahe body of the letters and iho signatures and houston told him it was ine practice of alie leaders of the movement for one to w rito the letter another to sign and a third to addrece the envelope ahn bodies of the letters were all moro or lesart written in disguise excy it the one letter dated kilmainham Kilmain ham it ness had heard the letters were offered to lord hartington before they were alie times witness was convinced the letters were genuine 1 scandal 1 ob 15 the star ellesbury Alles bury began a suit tor davs di dorco from his wife before marriage known as dolly tester it is stated he names as respondent co a bookmaker named riley who owna a racing actable revelations are expected |
