OLD SCANDALS REVIVED.

Northern Advocate, 8 September 1913, Page 5

OLD SCANDALS REVIVED.

THE O'SHEA-PARNELL DIVORCE. SIDELIGHTS ON THAT FAMOUS CASE. LONDON, Sept. 7. Mr William O'Brien is publishing a letter in which the late Mr Parnell, writing in Ja.nuary, 1890, and referring to his divorce case, says:—"lf the case is fully gone into it would show that the discredit and dishonour is not on my side. , ' Subsequently Mr Parnell told Mr O'Brien that the whole complexion of the affair would have been altered had he given evidence concerning Captain O'Shea. He had impressed upon Sir Francis Lockwood, Mrs O'Shea's counsel, that her husband should be examined, and almost came to blows with hiirt over it. Sir Francis Lockwood many years afterwards told Mr O'Brien that he was afraid Mr Parnell had been badly treated, and added, "I have some "remorse myself." Mr O'Brien adds, "The letter is important, as the only confidential glimpse in Parnell's hand-writing of the inmost truth of a transaction which if fully investigated would i have saved him the most painful part of the discredit, would have prevented the divorce and revolutionised the history of the last twenty years."