The Special Commission on " Parnellism and Crime" has had
a few sensational scenes during the last week. Besides a fainting-fit of Lady Mountmorres, the widow of the murdered Lord, during her cross-examination by Sir Charles Russell yesterday week, there was another exciting scene on the same day. The Attorney-General, in re-examining; Pat Sullivan, a State bailiff at Ballinorig Causeway, and steward to John Leahy of Killarney, asked to whom he had been talking during the adjournment of the Court for luncheon, and when the witness had named Mr. Soames's manager, pressed him whether he had spoken to any one else, and especially whether he knew either of the Mr. Harringtons, whereupon Mr. T. Harrington, who is a counsel in the case, sprang up and said that he could guess the direction of the examination, and that he had never seen the man in his life. Sir James Hansen stopped him, reminding him that he could not take part in the proceedings both as counsel and as witness ; and Mr. Harrington persisting in giving his testimony without obeying the President's direc- tions, the President of the Commission adjourned the Court. At the end of ten minutes, the Judges returned, when Mr. Harrington made a very proper apology, which Sir James Hannen at once accepted.
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