The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-07-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHAS. S. PARNELL. This letter I denounce as an absolute forgery. (Cheers.) I never wrote it; I never signed it • I never directed it to be written ; I never authorised it to be written; and I never ROM it. As I have said, 1 have never seen this letter, and I am not able to say whether it is in Mr Campbell's handwriting or not; lent if the body of it is in the same handwriting as the alleged inc-simile of another alleged letter of mine, published by the Times last year, then I most unhesitatingly say that it is not in Mr Campbell's writing. (Nationalist cheers.) The next letter is one main alleged to be signed by myself. It is under date 15, 5, 'B2, and reads : I) Fee SIR,—I am not surprised at your friend's anger, but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy, and you can tell -him and all others that, although I regret the accident of Lord Frederick Cavendish's de,.th, I cannot refuse to admit that Mr Burke got no more than his deserts. You are at liberty to show him this, and others you can trust also; but do not let my address be known. He can write to the House of Commons.—Pours truly, Cues. S. PaRbiELL. This letter was published by the limee in facsimile a year ago. At the time I denied in the strongest terms that it was signed by myself, or authorised by me, or that I knew anything at all about it. (Hear, hear.) I repeat that denial to-day. (Opposition cheers.) And I say that the statement which was made in Court that the body of the letter was in Mr Henry Campbell's handwriting is uritrue. (Cheers.) But with regard to this particular letter, I may mention—l think I ought to mention—a fact which I never mentioned before, because at the time I was dealing with the subject in the House of Commons was not aware of this fact, and it is that the signature which is attached to this letter is a copy of a signature of mine which I have not used since the end of 1879. (Hear.) This letter, bearing date May 15th, 1832. has attached to it a copy of a signature of mine which I have not used, since 1879. (Hear.) At the time I was speaking on this subject in the House before, I had forgotten that I had ever used such a signature. (Ministerial cries of " Oh.") The interval of three years has caused me to forget that I had ever used such a signature, and it was only upon looking over a correspondence with my agent, consisting of about a hundred letters, and covering the last ten years, that I found I had changed my signature at the end of 1879. (Ministerial cries of "Oh," and loud Irish cries of "Order.") And I then remembered definitely for the Stet time that I changed my signature at the end of 1879, when I first went to America. 1 have not been able since then to find a single letter written by me, or a single signature of mine attached to a document, either public or private, which is the same as the sie- -a I used up to that date. (Hear, fact, and the _ to which it is fact, I may say, the letters, the one That, undoubtedly, on, and a fairly good was in the habit of another letter,  HOLM will give it the _ entitled. (Irish cheers.) does not apply to another of dated from Kiltnainham. does appear to be an imita. imitation, &h.% signature I using at Then under date June 16, 1882: Lear Sir—l am sure yod wmr.,el that Jahonidnot ,appear inParliament in the of this thing unless I condemned it. Our position there is always difficult to maintain. It would be untenable but for the course we took. That is the truth. I can say no snore.—Yours very truly„—C. B. l'annuLf... 1 denounce that letter as an absolute forgery. (Opposition cheers.) I __ wrote it; I never beard of it until the Attorney-General read it out in the course of his statement ; and I eertainly never signed it or canoed it to be written. (Cheers.) The applies to the letter of the same date, June 16th' 1882, and subsequently read by the learned AttorneyGeneral. It runs:— Dear shall always be anxious to have the goodwill of your friends. Vaiy do they impugn my Motives? I could not consent to tho conditions they Imposed, but I accept the responsibility for what we bare done.—Yours gray, C. S.