O’SHEA DIVORCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8739, 22 May 1914, Page 6

O’SHEA DIVORCE

— ** HOWL OF HYPOCRITES” OLD SPIDER” AND THE FLIES. BARGAIN FOB IRISH VOTE. 01/ Telegraph—Preßj Association—Cowries* " "Times'" and Sydney “Sun" Serrices. IK>NDON, May 20. la ter book, Mrs O’Shea (Mrs Partnoll) states that when the divorce dc-| .exoo was issued Parnell, said there; won Id bo a howl, but it would bo tho( ■howl of hypocrites. Ho cried, saying, ’VKisa mo, sweet wrfio, and I’ll tty to . V|deep a little.” "When Mrs O’Shea was acting as ParnoU’e intermediary between Mr Gladstone and other political leaders, Ttfr Gladstone conversed with her, the -two walking arm-in-arm to Downing gtroeb. Mr Gladstone bargained for -the Irish vote. Ho got letters from Parnell dated from her house, while Parnell, after leaving Air (now Dord) Morkry (then Chief Secretary for Ireland), told her that Morloy had saad: “Can’t yon do soothing to stir up -the people?” When the expoearo regarding the Pamoll-O’Shea liaison came, Mr Gtad- - stone and others were duly shocked. Parnell was not angry, remarkmg. '•“Tli© old spider has nearly all my flies in his weh.” (Many statements m the book are ■borne out by letters; others are de- ’ pendent on the authoress's memory.