Diary of the Parnell Commission Author:John Macdonald General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Subjects: Irish question History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missin... more »g text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The cross-examination of Mr. Gilhooly ended with a few questions about four men, mentioned at the beginning of his evidence, as having been tried for an attack on a police protective hut. Gilhooly had suggested that one of the four, a man named Crowley, was secretary of the local branch. He now declined to say whether Crowley was secretary or not. He admitted he did not know who was secretary. Nor, in fact, could he tell whether any one of the four men was a leaguer. TWENTY-FIRST DAY. N0vember 28. Twenty-0ne witnesses, including a youth, who was put into the witness- box by mistake, or at all events prematurely, were examined to day. The youth, who looked shy and frightened, was disposed of in almost less than a minute, for it turned out that the crime -- a murder -- on which he was called to give evidence, and which was committed four or five months ago, was still sui judice. So young Pat Horan was dismissed from the box rather brusquely, as if the responsibility for his untimely presence there rested upon him. And to Pat succeeded Mr. Tom Galvin, a farmer, who had been shot in the legs for paying his rent. That was The Times counsel's view of the transaction. But Tom surprised them by telling Sir Charles Russell, quite bluntly, that, after all, he did "not think that was the reason. Nor was he the only Times witness who, in the course of the day, introduced confusion among his own side. Tom evidently suspected that a family dispute of his was at th...« less