Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-01
HERE AND THERE.
The Sensations of Many
Lands.
THE PARNELL INVESTIGATION.
Captain O'Shea the First Witness
Examined-A Scene in
Court.
THE PARNELL INVESTIGATION
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Court.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
LONDON, October 81. - The Parnell
commission resumed its investigation to-
day. Attorney General Webster, for the
Times, asked leave to interpose Captain
O'Shea as witness, as he wanted to go
Immediately to Spain.
Witness testified he had been on good
terms with Parnell until June, 1888. At
Parnell's request, in June, 1881, he COM
municated with Gladstone. Witness
did not know Patrick Eagan. Parnell
told him Eagan did not know
about negotiations with the Govern
ment until after Gladstone's speech
in the Commons, May Is, 1882. Parnell
then spoke to him of the awkward posi-
ton he was placed in by Gladstone's
speech, and told how the speech annoyed
Eagan and others. Negotiations then
ceased until 1882, when Parnell and
Dillon we're in Jail. Eagan was then in
Paris. The first proposal witness made
to the Government in 1882 was offered
without the authority of Parnell.
He received communications from
certain members of the Govern
ment replying to the proposals.
When Parnell was released from
Kilmainham, witness told him of the
position of the negotiations. He had
written Gladstone and it was arranged
that any answer he might make should
be sent to Parnell at Paris. Gladstone's
reply was sent to Parnell, who responded
in April, 1882. Parnell, on returning
from Paris, saw Gladstone. Parnell was
anxious for the release from prison
Of Michael Davitt, but he OBJ
jected to Brennan's release. Par
nell authorized witness to com.
municate with the Government. Parnell
undertook to do his utmost for the sup
preston Of boycotting and outrages. He
promised if the Government would set
tie the arrears rent question satisfactorily
he would advise the tenants to pay their
rents and would denounce outrages, re-
sistance to law and all kinds of intimida-
tion. Witness asked Parnell if he was
able to carry out his guarantee to sup
press outrages.
Parnell had said Sheridan would be
the most useful man in the work OF
putting down boycotting if he could only
see and converse with him. Boynton
and Eagan would also be useful. When
Parnell was in Kilmainham Jail, letter
was written and signed by Parnell which
the witness took to Forster, then Chief
Secretary of Ireland. The letter ex-
pressed Parnell's opinion that if the ar
rears question were settled he and his
colleagues would be able to suppress
outrages. The day after the Phoenix
Park murder Parnell showed witness the
murder manifesto. 1t was a mistake,
said witness, to say Parnell was not in
favor of the manifesto.
Seven letters were here shown witness,
who declared with certainty that the
signatures attached were those of Par
nell.
Captain O'Shea in his cross -examina-
tion said Buckle, editor of the Times, had
asked Joseph Chamberlain to get him to
give evidence. Witness denied ever
having threatened Parnell, though he
had once turned him out of his rooms in
Dublin. There were in existence COM
promising letters and documents and it
had been said he was engaged in con-
spiracy to get these letters. He
had been anxious to give the evidence
in order to clear himself and reiute the
Blanders circulated by Parnell and his
colleagues. Mulqueny, a Nationalist.
told him that Parnell paid for the escape
of Byrne. Many memoranda he made,
we're destroyed in 1888, when there was
danger of the Select Committe of Parli-
ment being appointed to inquire into the
Kilmainham treaty, and it was init
mated to him that the utmost reticence
ought to be observed on the subject.
Sir Charles Russell--Intimated by
whom?
Witness-By Sir William Vernon Har-
court, who said it was the opinion of an
other person. namely Gladstone.
This statement caused sensation in
court. O'Shea added ''It was Glad.
stones wishes that 1 should be as reti-
cent as possible from motives of political
expediency."
Witness said he never had any doubt
about the signatures of the Times letter.
He had had numerous letters from Par
nell of about the same date as the letter
referred to, and could not mistake his
writing.