| Show TOUGH Oli PARNELL The Evidence in the OShea Divorce I Di-vorce Case IS VERY DAMAGING INDEED The Irish leader Makes no Defense Neither Does Mrs OShea Which Causes a lro found Sensation in London LONDON Nov 15The trial of tho OShea divorce case opened before a special jury this morning Parnell co respondent was not represented by counsel OShea was the only prominent figure present Mrs OSheas counsel said he did not intend in-tend to crossexamine any witnesses or call any on behalf of Mrs OShea or take any part in the proceedings This collapse of the defense caused au immense sensation sensa-tion I involves the condemnation of Par nell to pay tho costs Coward briefly opened tho case for the petitioner Ho said as he understood under-stood tho case the respondent denied she had committed adultery as did also the corespondent Respondent forther alleged that the petitioner connived at the adultery and wilfully separated himself from her Lockwood counsel for Mrs OShea I stated that ho did not intend to crossex amine any ot the witnesses for the petition cr He would not cal any witnesses on behalf of Mrs OShea nor take any part in the proceedings Clarke of counsel for OShea said Lockwoods announcement seriously al tered their position now that neither Par nell nor Mrs OShea would take the oath It was therefore undefended and that continuous con-tinuous acts of adultery had been committed com-mitted by respondent and corespondent would bo placed beyond a doubt Witnesses nesses would prove that while the respondent respond-ent was visiting in Bedford square she was visited hv Prn1L who went under the I name of Smith At another house he vis ted her as Stuart and on one occasion he had to escape by tho balcony to avoid OShea Respondent and Parnell actually actu-ally lived together at Eastbourne and Brockley Parnell could notlace the evi dence He allowed judgment to go by de fault because ho dared not go into the witness wit-ness Dos He did not wonder at Parnells refusal to answer the charges of faithlessness faithless-ness base falsehood and the betrayal of a man who trusted him OShea stood for parliament in 1SSO He was then introduced to Parnelt who dined with him and Mrs OShea Mrs Steelo being one of the party Nothing excited OSheas suspicion until 1SS1 when Par nell visited respondent at Eltham His annoyance over Parnells approaches to his wife led OShea to send a challenge chalenge Mrs Steele saw Parnell who assured her there was no ground for the jealous suspicions sus-picions of OShea She wrote Paruell aud the latter replied He answered through the assurances that lie had given The petition pe-tition for divorce he said gven ted in December De-cember last Parnell then put in a simple denial Mrs OShea made a denial and counter charge against her husband alleging he had committed adultery with a number of persons including her own sister Mrs Steele She also charged him with cruelty and having connived con-nived at her adultery for a series of years The plea almost amounted to a confession of adultery Tho husband would be able to absolutely disprove every possible sug 1le gestion against him He could show that the charge of connivance was groundless that when OShea first heard of the intimacy in-timacy lie challenged Parnell to a duel Mrs Steele afterwards saw tho affectionate affec-tionate relations between OShea and his wife continued and Parnell wasagain invited in-vited to Eltham in 1SS2 After Parnell had been released from Parnel I jai he renewed his visits to Eltham and almost al-most habitually slept there Parnell used to drive from pailiamsut to Eltham and L Mrs OShea would go down stairs to meet him Sometimes she slept away from tho I house when Paruell was not there OShea t wrote his wife remonstrating against these t visits Furious scenes occurred between them and on one occasion he found u portmanteau port-manteau belonging to Parnell aa his house and carried it off throwing it out of the railway station Continuing his speech Sir Edward Clarke described all the places and different houses whore ParneU and Mis OShea had met and tho various stcries about them He said OShea always wrote his wife concerning theso stories and always received a specific denial For nineteen weeks in 1SSO they occupied a house together in Sc Johns Road East bourne Later they occupied another house in Eastbourne This occurred before November 1SSO after respondents promise to her husband that a new course would be adopted Later a gentleman call ing himself Fox went to the office of u house agent and engaged house aJent a on Trevillon revion street Brockllv 1n nftrnl 1nn n his name to Preston This man was Par bu nell Mrs OShea was frequently at the house calling herself a sister of the occupant Tho next house that was taken by Mrs OShea was in Regent park she giving as reference Mr Preston of Brockley and Mr Parnell iwo gentlemen in one day said Sir Edward Ed-ward These facts proved tho pair concealed con-cealed their intimacy to the last and cleared OShea of tho charge of connivance Respondent Re-spondent and Parnell used this house together to-gether from 1SS7 to 1SS9 All this said Sir Edward would be proved in evidence and I would surely enable the jury t return a verdict that would liberate Captain OShea from a marriage he marrage now looked upon as a shameful bondage Captain OShea was then called to the witness stand His testimony was corroborative corrob-orative in detail of what was touched upon by Sir Edward Clarke in his opening speech He said among other things that while he was a candidate for Galway ho heard statements about ut Parnell and Mrs OShea Ho remonstrated with his wife but she said her acquaintance with Parnell was for political purposes She told him she knew Parnell had been secretly warned Parnel secrety paragraphs graphs appeared in the papers about Par nells visits to Eltham OShea wrote to his wife expressing annoyance at the circumstance cir-cumstance There was talk about taking criminal proceedings against the news papers but It was thought it would only mane the scandal worse and the idea was I abandoned Afterward ho saw a para graph to the effect that Parnell had been staying at Eastbourne with Mrs OShea and wrote her Sometime after he OShea saw paragraphs stating that Parnell had been Eltham Plaintiff showed this to Par uuu WHO seem en uiuuu annoyed JI1 April 15 lSSi plaintiff saw his wife and had a long and painful intsrview with her show ing her sons letter The letter referred to was read by counsel I communicated matters relative to tho visit of Parnell to Mrs OShea The son said ho had heard the voice of that awful scoundrel Par nell and should liked to have knocked him down but dared not as ho did not wish to offend his mother who told him Parnell had only come to dinner The Parnel tinned Perhaps I ought to havo kicked him You however know more about these things than I do I you wish me to kick him it shall be done at the first op portunity There was no cross examination exami-nation Photographs of Parnoll andMrs OShea were placed evidence and Harriet Bull formerly in the service of Mrs Dawson of Brighton was called She remembered c Mrs OShea Sometfive or six years ouo Captain OShea came there as did also another gentleman whom she identified by I his photograph as Parnell He would come every day and at all times When he came the children would go out and no one bo in the house but he and Mrs OShea They would be together for hours He onco slept in the house when OShea was not wis there She recollected on one occasion Kcing to Mrs OSheas bedroom to speak to her She heard voices tried the door and found it locked Caroline Pothers a widow residing in Cheltenham rented a house in the latter part of 18S3 to Captain and Mrs OShea Two or three days after the family arrived ar-rived a gentleman appeared whom she identified as Parnell He went by the namo of Charles Stewart Ho and Mrs OShea were in the dining room for several hours on one occasion with the door locked They were in other rooms with the doors locked and they used to flrit7f > out in tlm nitrht limn T nrnflll slept frequently at the house when OShea was not there He was in the drawing room at one time with Mrs Orihea with the door locked when Captain OShea rang the front door bell Purnell escaped from the house went to the front door rang the bell and asked to see Captain OShea He did not escape by the stairs There was a balcony outside the window and two rope fire escapes in the house Laughter Witness saw Mrs OShea once go upstairs pull down the blinds and enter Parnells bedroom Mrs OShea used to carry hot water to Prrnells bedroom bed-room Court hero adjourned tho case until Monday unt The refusal of Mrs OShea to make any defense and the failure of Paruell to ap pear in court to refute the charges have caused an immense sensation Tile utter want of defense is i tantamount to an ac knowledgement of guilt and will result in Parnell being condemned to pay the cost of the divorce proceedings |
