Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-15
THIRTEEN, ALL DAUaHrKRs.
Domestic and Public Career Of the Law
yer Who Floored the ssThunderer."

From the New York Morning Journal
The name Of Sir Charles Russell will be given
an honorable place in the history of the strug-
gle for home rule for Ireland He il the senior
counsel for the Parnellites, and IL was his in
cisive and searching cross-examination that
drove the forger Pigott IN terror from England.
Sir Charles is Q remarkable man in more re-
spects than one. An interesting sketch OF his
career was furnished the Journal yesterday by
Mr.. Florence O'Sullivan a gentleman who had
conducted business in London for many years,
and who is now on visit to friends in this city.
MIR. O'Sullivan is acquainted with the leading
Parnellite members of parliament and also
with Sir Charles, whom he thus describes:
Sir Charles il q man of about fifty years.
He stands feet IL inches high, and ls built
like an athlete. His complexion Ia dorid, and
his hair a dark brown, slightly tinged with
gray. He was born in county Wexford, Ire
land, and has practiced his profession with dis
tinction in Ireland and England for a quarter
of a century. He was knighted when he was
made encouragement OF England, and no
man ever left the Office with higher reputa-
ton. When the Parnell commission was created
Russell was approached by Editor Buckle, OF
the Times, and offered ESQ day to represent
the paper while the commission sat- He de-
clined the offer on principle because he was
ey-general, Sir Richard Webster, was re-
tanned at fl0O day. Russell Is probably not
receiving more than half that sum, because the
Parnellite treasury is limited, and there are
heavy expenses to be met outside OF counsel
There is wrong impression in England,
and presume in this country, as to the own
ership of the Times. People generally inn
agine that the paper is controlled by Sir John
Walter and his brother Henry. This is not the
case. 1t is close corporation, formed under
the limited liability act and the policy of the
men who have divided its profits has been to
keep the public in the dark as to its affairs.
Among its stockholders are the premier, Lord
Salisbury, the marquis of Butte, the notorious
duke of Buccleugh. and other rabid tory aris-
tocrats. The Walter brothers have been put for
ward as nominal owners, while these men
have been drawing the heavy portion of the
dividend and directing the policy of the paper.
But there were no dividends to draw last year
and they won't be heavy this year. descrip-
ton of the storm that is now raging among the
tory stockholders would make interesting read
ing.
But to return to Sir Charles. His domestic
life Is one that any man might envy. He lives
in princely mansion at No. % Harley street,
in the fashionable West End Nearly all the
property in that vicinity is owned by the Duke
of Beaufort. His family worship in the beauti-
full Catholic church in Ogle street, near by.
They are the admiration Of the congregation,
and no wonder they should be. 1t is a sight to
observe the handsome lawyer and his graceful
wife with their thirteen pretty daughters az
they enter church. Yes, thirteen splendid girls,
who rise one above the other like the steps of a
stairway. There is no boy in the household. 1t
takes three pews to accommodate the family
and father and mother always sit in the last
pew. They say in this country that thirteen is
an unlucky number, but in the part of county
Wexford from which the Russells hail no family
is considered complete till it numbers twenty
one. BY that time there may be several sons"