The Parnell Divorce Case.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 413, 6 February 1890, Page 3

The Parnell Divorce Case.

Now that the Home Rule battle (writes a contemporary) is to be fought out in the Divorce Court, it may be well to give a resume 0! the causes which have led to the suit in which Charles S’uart Parnell is co respondent. In Mr Parnell’s early manhood ha was betrothed to the lovely daughter of the late Sir John Page Wood; they were devotedly attached to each other, and preparations ware being made for their marriage, when the young lady died. Many attribute Mr Parnell's continued bachelorhood tn the irreparable loss of his early love. On her deathbed she placed the hand of her elater—Mrs O’Shea—in that of her betrothed and pledged them to a friendship that has been continued all these years. Captain O'Shea shared the friendship for many years, and at Parnell's suggestion, was returned for an Irish oon. stituency. although his election was not universally favored by the voters. As the gallant captain failed to keep his pledges with hie constituents when in Parliament, he was requested to retire, Mr Parnell no longer using his influence on behalf of a Parliamentarian who in important divisions took exactly the opposite side to that which he had pledged h[msell to. Since then O’Shea has been the Irish leader’s implacable enemy, and was one of the chief witnesses with useless testimony against him in the Times-Parnell enquiry, when it was mooted that the captain would make some preliminary reference to his present plea for divorce, for which no one believed there was the slightest ground. He did not, however, and there was great disappointment amongst Parnell's enemies. A sensational story is told of a plot to murder Mr Parnell; of which Mrs O'Shea, the respondent, by some means became cognisant in time to save him. Tne lady is held by all, except her husband, to be, like Casar's wife, above suspicion. She has been married twenty-two years,