Parkin and Jobson have appealed to me to testify to certain facts.

I was very reluctant to interfere, for obvious reasons; but was, at last, prevailed on to examine the minute-books of those two Unions, and they certainly do prove that on the very evening before the explosion, those trades had fully discussed Mr .-- --'s case" (the real name was put, but altered by the editor), "and had disposed of it as follows.

They agreed, and this is entered accordingly, to offer him his traveling expenses (first class) to London, and one pound per week, from their funds, until such time as he should obtain employment.

I will only add, that both these secretaries spoke kindly to me of Mr .-- --; and, believing them to be sincere, I ventured to advise them to mark their disapproval of the criminal act, by offering him two pounds per week, instead of one pound; which advice they have accepted very readily." Henry was utterly confounded by these letters.
Holdfast commented on them thus: "Messrs.

Jobson and Parkin virtually say that if A, for certain reasons, pushes a man violently out of Hillsborough, and B draws him gently out of Hillsborough for the same reasons, A and B can not possibly be co-operating.