He also scored for a second or two.

He went on to remark that he had been under the influence of the massacre at Mitchelstown; but scarcely had these words proceeded from his lips than a look of dismay passed over the faces of his Irish colleagues.

Close beside him were several men who, like himself, had stood on the platform of the historic square when the police descended upon the meeting, and which ended in the death of three innocent men.

They at once perceived that Mr.Dillon, by some break of memory, had made a mistake in his dates.

The incriminating speech had been delivered in December, 1886, and the Mitchelstown massacre took place in September, 1887.