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Pigott was a journalist for The Times who admitted to forging letters implicating Charles Parnell of the Phoenix Park murders. He famously was forced to give a confession after a brutally effiecient cross examination by Charles Russel. Baron Russell caught Pigott by having Pigott try to spell the word hesitancy. Pigott mispelled the word, just as the forger had.