The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-04

America. my heart turns to Ireland.
for there live the FIVE children who
lave been left to me out Of family OF
II. am a very old woman. and II Is
light that ! should end my days among
Them. have not been In Ireland since
1892. when visited the grave that Is
gald to contain the body Of my son.
saw the grave. but Il stirred no emo
lion within me. II the body which re-
poses within the grave be that OF my
con, Charles Stewart Parnell, then !
I'm firm and answering In my belief
hat he was the victim of British NAL
ce. which instlgated his murder IN
order to remove from the field the
greatest champion Of Irish free
dom. and thus clear the way for that
species OF perpetual quietly carried on
oppression which was renewed In Ire
land from the very day OF his dlsap-
pearance. was In America at the
time my son died, but | have been
often told since that no one who knew
/ The face OF Charles stewart Parnell was
allowed to see him after he was Oaid
10 have died. have a letter from his
wife. who had been Mrs O'Shca. which
ellis me that even she did not see the
body OF her husband and my son after
his supposed death; that abe was for
chilly kept from seeing the body. She
wrote me that on the nlght before he
is supposed to have died Parnel com
planned OF rheumatism Ia his left arm.
She did not see him after he retired
that night. and never looked upon his
features again,
"But the physicians who eNamined
the body, from the sight % which
every one who had known Parnoll was
kept. pronounced that he had died 81
rheumatism Of the heart Who ever
heard OF rheumatism travelling from
the left arm to the heart and killing a
man In a single night? There was Q
reason for all this. Either Charles
Stewart Parnell was the victim Of an
English assassin, who so mutilatod the
body that II would have been impossi-
Die for his friends TO have looked upon
Il without forming suspicious, Of
Charles Stewart Parnell did no, die a
all, and the body Of another man wa,
substituted for his In his coffin, whll,
he himself disappeared
Il myself firmly believe that my sor
10 alive today. This belief ls shared b,
some OF my children and by many o
the friendo who know and loved hin
before bis disappearance. An Irlsl
lady Of very high standing and charae
ter. and a very old friend OF my fam
lily. has written TO ne that not lonl
after he was supposed 20 have beer
buried she herself saw Charles stewar
Parnell standing within the shadow O
I vault In the cemetery sadly watching
the friends Of his other days Will
they covered with flowers the gray
which the world imagInea TO he hi,
She was 80 overcome that she sam
back falnting upon one OF the cemeter
benches. AMI when she recovered her
self my son had disappeared,
"Many other circumstances comhln
o to add to my determined belief tina
j. my son lives. There are two ways 4
= accounting for hts disappearance, tn
n FIRST Is that. having exhausted all OF hi
J. means In assisting the Irish cause
r and. indeed, De was $4,000 In del
when his death Is said TO have take
2 place and eadtcred sad overburdeno
l. by the undeseryed disgrace which ha
boiallen him. he resolved to voluntarll
10 disappear. after dcvlsing means
y make II appear that he had really died