If the case stood alone there it was difficult to understand how a Coroner could come into court and appear by counsel to resist the quashing of an inquisition in regard to which at the very door such gross personal misconduct was demonstrated.

No doubt, he said, he did not read them as originals but as copies, and it was strange, that being so, that he did not inform the jury of what had become of them, and he complained now of not being told by the police of their recovery--not told of his own misconduct.

On the 1st September, Ellen Gaffney applied by a solicitor--Mr.Disdall, and as a set-off the Coroner permitted a gentleman named O'Kearney Whyte to appear--for whom?
Was it for the constituted authorities or for the next-of-kin?
No, but for the Rev.Father Bergin, who was described as president of the local branch of the National League, and the Coroner (Mr.Gowing) alleged as the reason why he allowed him to appear and cross-examine the witnesses and address the jury and give him the right of reply like Crown counsel was, that Ellen Gaffney stated that she had been so much annoyed by Father Bergin that she attributed the loss of her child to him--that it was he who had murdered the child.

It was asserted that Father Bergin sat on the bench with the Coroner and interfered during the conduct of the inquest, and having to give some explanation of that Mr.Gowing's version was certainly a most amusing one.

He said it was the habit to invite to a seat on the bench people of a respectable position in life--which, of course, a clergyman should be in--and that he asked Father Bergin to sit beside him in that capacity.