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Show RITTIE O'SHFJ IRISH IfllDEH'S WIDOWJS DEAD .Voman Who Figured in Sensational Sen-sational Divorce Case Passes at 76 LONDON. Feb. G. Mrs. Charles' tew.irt Parncll, widow of the &roat Irish Nationalist leader. died this nomine at ber home In Brighton aft-?r aft-?r a llngerhiK Illness. Shu was sev-tnty-slz yeari old. Mrs. Parnell. known for many I ears to the world as "Mrs Kittle 1 D'Shea." was n woman nbout nrhlcb evolved the latter acts of the drama n which Charles Stewart Parnell was he principal flirure. She was former-1 y the wife of Captuln William ( I'Shea ind wa.s the younfrest duujfhter of he Rev. Sir John Pago Wood She bcrami' lnvol'C.d with an In-1 rigue with Mr. Parnell in 1SS1 which' ?ontlnufd until late fn 1889 when Captain O'Shea brought suit for divorce. di-vorce. The testimony In the case provided pro-vided a sensation at the time, and it vaa declared to be the chief contrlb-jtiiu: contrlb-jtiiu: rau.ie of Parnell's fall as leader )f his party. Parnell and Mr. 0'Shea were married mar-ried In June, 1891, but lne Irish hieftaln lived only a short lime, dy-nG dy-nG early In ocuuber of the same ear. n 1 y 14 . Mrs. parnell published "th ovi- story and political life of C. S. Parnell' the appearance of the book auslnjc a notable controversy between .he adherents and opponents of the fading figure In tho volume. oo |