Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-01
O'SHEA TELLS HIS STORY
Parnell's False Friend on the
 Witness Stand.
INTEREST IN HIS TESTIMONY.

He Gives His Version of the History of MT. ParncITs Connection with Crimes, and Gives His Opinion that the Letters in Question arc Genuine. LONDON Nov 1-The examination of wit nesses ill the Parnell inquiry proved to be much more attractive to the outside pubic than the address of Sir Richard Webster last week The court room ill which the commls sion sits was crowded.
 Capt. O'Shea was called to the witness stand in behalf of The Times. He stated that at Mir. Parnell'S request he conferred with Mr. Gladstone ill June, 1881. The interview was accomplished without the knowledge of Mr. Parnells colleagues.
 Negotiations were discontinued until 1SS2, when MeSsrs Parneu and Dillon were in Kill mailman jail. The proposals which the wit ness made to the government i'll 1882 were made without the authority of Mir Parnell. After the latter's return from Paris he con- ferred with the witness at the latter's house, and at these conferences they were always alone
 The Irish leader authorized the witness to confer with the government, and said that fl the question regarding the arrears in rent was settled satisfactorily he would advise the tenants to pay their rents, and would himself denounCe as outrageous all resistance to law
 MT. Parnell had said to the witness that Sheridan would be most useful in putting down boycotting, and that BOyton and Egan would also be useful in that direction, if they could be convinced of the wisdom of the new policy.
 On the day after the Phoenix park tragedy MT. Parnell showed the witness the anti-mur- der manifesto Mir. Parnell expressed him. self as favoring the manifesto, but disllked the bombast ill the document, which he said was necessary to appease the vanity of Mir. Davitt.
 Seven letters were here shown to the wit ness, who declared that the signatures were MT. Parnell's.
 Sir Charles Russell asked permission of the court to postpone crosS-eXamination of Capt. O'Shea, the latter part of the witness testimony had taken him byTsurprise. Jus tice Hannah said he saw no good reason for poStpOning cross examination, and Sir Charles Russell then proceeded with the witness.
 Capt. O'Shea said that Mir Buckle, editor of The Times had asked him, through Mir. Chamberlain, to be witness Mulqueeny, an advanced Nationalist had been threat ened with death by Gen. Carroll Davis and Hayes, the supposed originator of the Lon don bridge outrage, because he had signed the protest against the exclusion of the wit ness from parliament by MT. Parnell. Wit ness denied that he had ever threatened MT. Parnell, but had on one occasion turned him out of his rooms in Dublin in fit of anger. He had been anxious to give evidence in order to clear himself and refute the islanders uttered against him by Mr. Parneu and his colleagues.
 Mulqueeny had told the witness that Mr. Pa;nell had paid for the escape of Byrne He could not recollect paying Mulqueenys expenses to Paris to procure signatures to the protest against his exclusion from the Par nellte party. Much of the memoranda he had collected destroyed in 1888, when there danger that select committee would be appointed to inquire into the Xiii mainham treaty. It had been intimated to him that the utmost reticence in the matter was necessary.
 'Intimated by whom!' asked Sir Charles I Russell.
 By Sir William Harcourt, who said it was the opinion of another person-Mr Gladstone"
 The fac simile letter of The Times was shown to the witness, who was decidedly of the opinion that the writing was that of MT. ParnelL He had received a number of letter from MT. Parnell about the same date and could not mistake his signature. The commission then adjourned.
 The sensation which the Tories believed would be made by the revelations of Capt
 
 far short of their expectations The captains testimony was given with apparent fairness and is really favorable to Mir. Parnell, iu re gard to the charges that the Irish leader pos sessed full or even partial knowledge of the outrageS committed in IrIand or those con templated The most interesting item of tn, witness testimony to thoss behind the scenes was his emphatic statement that he severed his confidence ill and for MT. Parnell in June 1886, statement which can and will b totally refuted
 The fact is undeniable that reporter, wh, will be called to the witness box in due time interviewed Mir. Parnell in Capt. O'Shea' house in December, 1SS6, and the data O that interview will be forthcoming A other times the captains recollection of fact and dates became somewhat confused but ol the whole, he made very credtable show ing as truthful witness, considering tn trying circumstance of his being confrontet with conflicting memoranda ill the presenc of the man he was giving testimony against
 Sympathy for the Pope.