PARNELL'S WIDOW.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1852, 11 September 1913, Page 7

PARNELL'S WIDOW.

ECHO OF CELEBRATED DIVORCE PETITION.

MORE DISCLOSURES PENDING, By Telesmpli—Press Association—Oopyricbt (Rec. September 10, 10.30 p.m.) London, September 10. Mr. Gerald O'Sliea, in a letter to tho press, in reply to Mr. Wm. O'Brien's published reference to the O'Sliea v. O'Sliea and Parnell divorco ease, states that his mother is now tho widoiv of tho late Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell. Ho adds that ho is hastening tho publication of the Parnell letters in order to refute Mr. W. O'Brien's allegation.

Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., published two days ngo a letter in which ho quoted the late Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell as saying, in January, IS9O, in reference to tiio divorce case O'Sliea. v. O'Sliea and Parnell: "If tho caso is fully gone into it will show discredit and dishonour, not on my side." Mr. Parnell subsequently (old Mr. O'Brien, states the h-tler, that' the whole complexion of tho affair would have been altered had he testified concerning O'Sliea. He had pressed upon Sir Frauds Lockwood, K.C., Mrs. O'Shea's counsel, that ho sliculd have examined her, aiul almost came to blows with Sir Prancis Lockwood regarding tho point. Sir Francis, many years afterwards, told Jfr. O'Brien that ho was afraid Parnell had been badly treated. Ho had added: "I have somo remorse myself."