The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-20
MRS. PAKNELL MAY DIE
MOTHER of THE LATE sUNCROwNED
KING" ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.
Found Bleeding and Unconscious Near
Her Jersey Farm-Sufferfng from
Conclusion of the Brain.

BORDENTOwN, N. J., April 19.-Mrs.
Della t. Parnell. mother of the late Charles
Stewart Parnell who lives at Ironsides.
overlooking the Delaware river near here,
was found bleeding and unconscious late
last night by Charles Casey, son of the
farmer who has charge of the farm at
Ironsides. While descending hill which
marks the boundary of the property for
merly occupied by Mrs. Parneirs father
young Casey heard the means of some one
apparently in distress. Hurrying to the
spot from which the sound issued he found
Mrs. Parnell lying beside the fence with
her face covered with blood BY her side
were two small pieces of board. a piece of
fence paling about three feet long and
brick. Help was obtained and she was
carried to the house of farmer Casey DIR.
w. III. Ships, who was hastily summoned,
made an examination, and found that, be-
sides several bruises about the face, the
woman had lacerated wound on the right
side of the face, from which the blood
flowed freely.
The authorities are convinced Mrs.
Parnell was assaulted and robbed. Her
hand bag was found alongside the railroad
track near by, with her pocketbook MISS
ing and papers scattered in all directions.
Mrs Parnell frequently came to this place
at night ana remained until a late hour.
She was here last night. The authorities
have sent kilograms to all the nearby cit
les and towns asking that a lookout be
smooth face, light overcoat and Derby hat,
who was seen in the vicinity about the
time the assault is believed to have been
Mrs. Parnell regained consciousness this
evening. but was unable to throw any light
suffering from the effect of concussion of
the brain and shock, but no symptoms have
YET ye m vIe p9ih r 20 OF the
loss of blood 1t is impossible to foresee the
outcome of the case. 1t has been learped
the hardware store of Samuel F. Burr and
rendered a $40 check in payment of bill
left for home, walking down m the raiiroa a.
tracks. where the assault was doubtless
made made Two Two tramps giving ag, the names Of
Brennan, of Newark, were arrested on sus-
pieion to-day by Marshal Jones. They were
property. but as they proved to know moth
Ing of the assault they were released.
Mrs. ParneIIs house stands on hill
about one mile from Bordentown, and is
known as "Ironsides." 1t is a big. old
two-story frame structure, and was built
by her father. Commodore Stewart, many
years ago. 1t is as dreary a place as ons,
could imagine. The aged woman has nc,
close acquaintances in Bordentown, and
previous to 1890 had been living in desti-
tuition. In that year the attention of Con-
gress was called to her straitened circum-
stances, ana the united states government
granted her a pension of 80 per month.
At that time she lived alone in the bleak
house, the only other person about her
observation-disclosures farm being gardener.
The rooms of the deary old building are
most desolate. During 1888 and 1889, in a
fit of desperation, the old woman stripped
the house of its furniture in order to OBJ
tain food, and her rooms have never been
entirely refurnished. The paper on the
walls hangs in shreds. Mrs. Parnell had
often expressed a desire to go abroad be-
fore the death of her favorite son, Charles
Stewart Parnell. but she never appealed
to him for assistance. She was once asked
why she did not ask her son to aid her
and replied: He is at the end of his
means" How well she told the truth is
history. She never talked of her situetion
and one has ever heard her utter a
complaint. AT one time she wrote to Mrs
Carlslake, OF Trenton, saying she would
have to leave her home, because she was
unable to pay the rapidly accommodating
taxes. but friends came to her assistance.
and later the pension was obtained for her