PARNELL-O'SHEA DIVORCE SUIT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2131, 24 April 1914, Page 7

PARNELL-O'SHEA DIVORCE SUIT

HISTORY OF THE CASE BY PARNELL'S WIDOW. By Mesrapa—Press Aesociatidii—Copyristht (Rec. April 23, 10.55 p.m.) London, April 23. Mrs. Parnell is publishing, in tho ruiddlo of May next, tho history of the O'Shea and Parnell divorce case. Tho book will contain love-letters and political revelations, including tho late Mr. Parnell's draft of tho Irish Constitution, with the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone's comments thereon. Katherine O'Shea acted as Parnell's go-between in the negotiations with Mr. Gladstono and Mr. Chamberlain, In September last Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., published a letter in which he quoted the late Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell as saying, in January, 1890, in reference to, the divorce case O'Shea v. O'Shea and Parnell: "If the case is fully gone into it will show discredit and dishonour, not on my side." Mr. Parnell subsequently told Mr. O'Brien, stated tho letter, that the whole complexion of the affair would have been altered had he testified concerning O'Shea. Ho had pressed upon Sir Francis Lackwood, K.C.. Mrs. O'Shea's counsel, that ho should havo examined her, and almost came to blows with Sir Francis Lockwood regarding the point. Sir Francis, many years afterwards, told Mr. O'Brien that ho was afraid Parnell had been badly treated. He had added: "I have some reroorso myself." Two days later Mr. Gerald O'Shea, in a letter to tho Press, in reply to Mr. Win. O'Brien's published reference to tho O'Shea r, O'Shea and Parnell divorce case, stated that his mother is now the widow of the late Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell. He added that he was hastening the publication of the Parnell letters in order to refute Mr. W. O'Brien's nidation.