THE INMOST TRUTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 8 September 1913, Page 5

THE INMOST TRUTH.

PARNELL DIVORCE CASE.

LETTER WRITTEN IN 189 p.

(Bv Ei.ectrio Telkokai’h —Corvuioin j [Unixed Press Association.J (Received ( J. 15 a.m.) London, September i.

Air T. O’Brien publishes a letter in winch Parnell in January, 1890, referring to the divorce case, says:—

“if tho case is fully gone into, it would show that the discredit and dishonor were not on my side.” He subsequently 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 pressed upon Sir Francis Lockwood, Mrs O’Suea’s counsel, that her husband should lie. examined, and almost came to blows with him over it. Sir Francis many years afterwards told .Mr O’Brien that ho was afraid 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 handwriting of the inmost truth of the transaction, w.luch, if fully investigated, would have saved him the most painful part in tho discredit. It would have prevented the divorce and revolutionised the history of the last twenty years.”