The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-06-08
SHE CALLS lyman A FRAUD.
Mrs. Frank Byrne on Her Dying Bed
Declares that He Is Not the
a@ Famous mo, l." ~-. .
pARNELL WAS INNOCENT, SHE SAYS.
yhe Woman Who Is Supposed to Have Car.
risd the Knives Used in Phoenix
Park Speak, to The World.

Lying in a darkened room on the
ground floor of tiny frame house in
Providence, r. l.. Is the helpless body |
Of a radiantly beautiful woman who |
but few years ago was the focus of
horror and hatred for all England. She
10 Mrs Mary Byrne. widow Of Frank
Byrne the man who. above all others,
organized the famous "Invincible" con-
spiracy that eliminated in the tragedy
Of Phoenix Park. Mrs. Byrne Is the
woman, II is gene-aily believed, who
carried from London to Dublin the
knives that were driven by Brady and
Kelly into the bodies of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Mr.. Burke.
For three years she has been dying,
literally by inches. of creeping paralysis.
From her feet upward the malady has
crept on. minute by minute, until now
every limb, every muscle, every nerve,
Is dead. and speech itself has almost
left her. But the bright, keen. incisive
mind which led her to active participa-
tion in her husbands plans remains I'M
touched, and she is able to appreciate
the misery of her position. She has will
power enough to fume in hystercal fury
At p. ]. p, Tynan's exposure of the
inner working OF the Inyincibe Organ
ization, In which ne and Frank Byrne
were prominently active. When she
tries to speak all that can be heard Is
an almost unintelligible gurgle--under-
stood only by the wendrously pretty
seventeen-year-old daughter Frances,
who is now her sole support and nurse.
And Mrs. Byrne is not yet forty years
old.
She will allow no one except the one
or two friends that still remain to her
to enter her room. Those who see her
now say that her beauty remains almost
unimpaired in spite of her condition. But
her horror OF being seen by strangers or
casual callers is so intense that all
w6uld-be sympatiiizers have long ago
given up the attempt to approach her.
d The reporter Of The World who talked
with her h, her home, No. $50 knight
street, Providence, on Wednesday night,
stood behind a curtain that concealed
the bedroom from sight, while her
daughter bent over her bedside and
caught the faint replies and interpreted
them.
Her first reply when Tynan's story
had been read to her was emblematic
Of the wild and revengeful spirit that
sickness, poverty and privation have
~ will say nothing in answer to the
man who has betrayed u.s.. she gasped.
Those who ore dead carried their Sc
nussfsn.. I'nr laying S the penalty tor H It
all; What else would they haye?"
Q piteous moan. Her daughter, who in.
herits some of her fathers mental
force, as well as the beauty of her
In defense 81 Parn s At last came this
reply, in thick, short gasps:
"Parnell was innocent. Before God I
swear II krow tS 6etterG W ne hef
doesn't matter. I'll say nothing about 1t.
Do the newspapers think III turn in
former? IN not say word word, a al vt the M,
the wealth of the world; But Parnell
knew nothing of the murders"
There was a pause while she struggled
"Tynan is a liar. a traitor and a
fraud He was not Ne Ia, l. Mind nd, that hat
He never had anything to do with the
direction. I don't Know Mrs. Marguerite
Moore, except that l heard about her
Carey got his pardon on condition that
he would implicate Parnell. He never
knew anything about Parnell to tell: he
self. Tell the reporter that The World
-hall have all 1t wants to know after
Twill you, now that all danger to
yourself Is passed, that those associated
with you arc dead and beyond the reach
1 not nG yoa carried psh those RnivesT was
Mrs. Byrne laughed. "I'n say moth.
ngd i've sisters ,u and eyehsFi IN E"s
It !. "I regsrdsd as an act Of poIiticsi
hostility anyway" was the next sus'
Let we'll enough alone" came bae,, ;
identify me That satisfied the Br tta5i
you. ri not. say whether I carried
those knives"
When Mrs. Byrne was arrested after after
months in Kilmainham Jail. Day afteI
day Carey and others were brought tc
her cell to identify her; but the Govern
her and she was finally released. Blu
the mental strain had so affected hel
nerves that she has never entirely re
her husbands escape, to France soor
after the Phoenix Park murders, Of thu
vain attempt made by the British Gov
eminent to secure his extradition from
that country. OF his subsequent settle
ment here has already been, told. Ate
ne had come to New York the Eng
10 capture him. but the Government a
Washington refused to extradite him
lied in Providence and died three
months ago of heart failure induced b!
rheumatism.
Frank. a boy OF fourteen, capt" JOS
eph Mullen, janitor of the State House
Providence, and her husbands ol'
most deserted Apparently she has n
means of support. Her condition is on