The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-11-16
LOOKS BADFOR PARNELL
Damaging Testimony Against Ns Irish
Leaders Private Life.
NO DEFENSE TO BE PUT IN
The Developments In the O'Shea
Divorce Case the Reverse Of
Satisfactory to ParneIPs
Friends and Admirers.


O'Shea divorce case opened this morning.
Aspecial jury had been empanneled. Par.
nell is correspondent and was not repre-
sented by counsel. O'Shea was the only
prominent figure present.
Mrs. O'Shea's counsel said he did not
intend TO cross-examine any witnesses or
call any In behalf OF Mrs. 0'Shea or take
any part in the proceedings. This col
lapse OF the defense caused an immense
senzation and involves the condemnation
OF Parnell to pay costs.
Coward briefly opened the case for the
petitioner He said as he understood the
case respondent denied that she commit
ted adultery, as did also the correspond
ent Respondent further alleged the petit
toner connived at her adultery and will
| fully separated himself from her. Lock-
wood, for Mrs. O'Shea, stated he did not
intend TO cross-examine any OF the wit
nesses for the petition. He would not call
any witnesses in behalf Of Mrs. O'Shea
nor take any part in the proceedings.
Clark OF the counsel for Captain O'Shea
said Lockwood's announcement seriously
allows the position now that neither
/
in the case. II was therefore undefended.
That continuous acts Of adultery bad been
committed by respondent and correspond
ent would be proved beyond doubt. The
witness would prove that while respond
ent was visiting Bedford square she was
visited by Parnell, who went under the
name cf Smith. At another house he Wis.,
4 tied her as Stuart. On one occasion he
had 10 escape by the balcony 10 avoid
O'Shea. The respondent and Parnell
had actually lived together at East
Bourne and Brockley. Parnell could not
face the evidence. He allowed judg-
ment to go by default because he
dared not 20 into the witness box.
He did not wonder at Parnelfs
refusal to answer the charges Of faithless-
ness and falsehood and breach Of friend
ship of the man who trusted him. O'Shea
stood for parliament in 80. He was then
introduced TO Parnell who dined with him
and Mrs. O'Shea, Mrs. Steel being one Of
the party. Nothing excited 0'Shea's sus-
picions until 'sl, when Farnell visited the
respondent at Ethan. His annoyance at
Parneh's approaches TO bis wife led
OShea 10 send challenges. Mrs. Steel
saw Parnell, who assured her there was
no ground for jealous suspicion. O'Shea
wrote TO Parnell and the latter replied.
The petition for divorce, he said, was
filed in December last. Parnell then put
in simple denial, and Mrs. O'Shea made
a denial and counter-charges against her
husband alleging he committed adultery
with number of persons including his
own sister, Mrs. Steel. She also charged
him with cruelty and having con-
nived at her adultery for a series of
years. The plea almost amounted to a
confession OF adultery. The husband would
be able TO absolutely disprove every pos
sible suggestion against him. He could
show the charge Of connivance ground
less; that when O'Shea first heard Of the
intimacy he challenged Parnell to duel.
Mrs. Steele said that afterwards affec-
tionate relations beween O'Shea and wife
continued. Parnel was again invited to
Ethan in 1882. Afer Parnell had been
released from Kilnainham Jail he re-
newed his visits to Ethan and almost
habitually slept thee. Parnell used to
drive from parliament TO Ethan and Mrs.
O'Shea would go down stairs to meet him.
Sometimes she slept tway from the house
when Parnell was lot there. O'Shea
wrote his wife demonstrating against
these visits. Furious scenes occurred
between them. On one occasion he found
a portmanteau belonging to Parnell at his
house and carried IL of throwing il out Of
the railway depot.
Continuing his speech, Sir Edward
Clark describedal the places and differ
ent houses where Parnel and Mrs. .O'Shea
had met and the varbus stories about
them. He said O'Shea always wrote his
wife concerning these sories, and always
received specific denia. For 1s weeks
in 1856 they occupied louise together in
st. Johns road, Eastboune. Later they
occupied house in Eastlourne. This oc-
CURED before November 1896, after
the respondents promise TO her hus-
band that new course would
be adopted. Later a gentleman calling
himself Fox went to the Office Of a house
agent and engaged hous, on Trevillon
street, Brockley. He afterwards changed
his name to Preston. Thisman was Par.
nell.
Mrs. O'Shea was freqmntly at the
house, calling herself Sister Of the occu-
pant. The next house was hken by Mrs.
O'Shea in Regent park, sle giving as
reference Mr.. Preston OF Irockley and
Mr.. Parnell-two gentleman n one, said
Sir Edward. These facts proved that the
pair concealed their Intimacy TO
the last and cleared 0'Shea of
OF the charge Of connivtnce. The
respondent and Parnell used dhis house
together in 1857 until 1888. All this, said
Sir Edward, would be proved in evidence,
and would surely enable the jury 70 return
a verdict that would liberate Captain
O'Shea from the marriage that be now
looked upon as shameful bondage.
Captain O'Shea was then called TO the
witness stand. His testimony was cor.
roborative in detail OF the points touched
upon by Sir Edward Clark In his opening
address. He said among other
things that while he was can.
didate for Galway he heard state.
ments about Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea.
He demonstrated with his wife, bur she
said her acquaintance with Parnell was
for political purposes. She told him she
knew Parnell had been secretly married
When paragraphs appeared in the papers
about Parnell's visits to Ethan, o'Shea
wrote 70 his wife expressing annoyance
a, the circumstance. There was talk