3-071-075 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The arrest of Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., at Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, 1881. 'Mr. Parnell in Parliament, from a sketch made during the reading of the Land Bill; Chas Parnell; Mr. Parnell's arrest; Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, where Mr. Parnell was arrested...The arrest of Mr. Parnell, M.P. for Cork city...is the subject of our front-page Engraving...the Chief Secretary to the Government of Ireland, Mr. Forster...signed warrants for the apprehension of Mr. Parnell and others, under the provisions of the Act for the Protection of Life and Property in Ireland, sometimes called the Coercion Act...This Act gives to the Irish Government, authority to arrest and imprison, without trial or formal indictment, persons reasonably suspected of certain seditious and treasonable practices, or of conspiring to injure or intimidate the Queen's subjects, or to prevent the due execution of the law...[Parnell] was not yet dressed, when Chief Superintendent Mallon...knocked at the door, and was admitted by Mr. Parnell...Superintendent Mallon informed him of the business, and produced two warrants for Mr. Parnell's arrest. Mr. Parnell received the information quietly, and, having looked at the warrants, laid them aside, and proceeded to complete his toilet'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.