3-071-030 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Irish Land League Trials in Dublin; the traversers leaving the court, 1881. 'The trial of fourteen leaders of the Irish Land League...began...in the Court of Queen's Bench...The defendants, or "traversers" as they are styled, are Messrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P.; Thomas Sexton, M.P.; Thomas Brennan, secretary of the Land League; Patrick Egan, hon. treasurer of the Land League; T. D. Sullivan, M.P.; John Dillon, M.P.; Joseph Gillis Biggar, M.P.; Michael O'Sullivan, assistant secretary of the Land League; Michael Boyton, Patrick Joseph Gordon, Matthew Harris, John W. Mally, John W. Walsh, and P. J. Sheridan. The indictment charges these persons with a conspiracy, first, to impoverish and injure the owners of farms let to tenants for rent; secondly, conspiracy to impede and frustrate the administration of justice, and the execution of legal writs for levying of moneys due for rent, or for recovery of land on non-payment of rent; thirdly, conspiracy to prevent the taking of any farm from which a tenant has been evicted; fourthly and lastly, conspiracy to excite discontent and disaffection among the Queen's subjects, with ill-will and hostility between different classes - that is to say, between landlords and tenants in Ireland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.