Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — PARNELL'S DENIAL. [ARTICLE]

PARNELL'S DENIAL.

He Vindicates Him«elt From Charges Contained in Forged Letter a. Mr. Parnell, in the House, Friday, took the first occasion to rise to a privileged question, and, pointed out the letters over what pretended to be his signature, which had been published in the Times, and produced in court, pronounced them as absolute forgeries. Mr. Parnell, in making his statement in the House, read all the letters which had been produced against him and denounced them and their signatures seriatim, as forgeries, each and all, with a single exception, which might, he said, be true. Mr. Parnell pronounced all the letters purporting to come from Mr. Egan forgeries. With regal'd to Byrne, he knew nothing of his departure and never gave him money in his life, except by way of subscription for a memorial to Dr. Butt. Mr. Parnell said he had attended the Chief Justice’s Court two whole days prepared to take his oath that the letters were forgeries, and that the letters alleged to be in Campbell’s handwriting were forgeries. Mr. Parnell explained that in 1879 he changed his signature. The Times’s sac simile of the letter dated in 1882 fibre the signature which he used before 1879, and never later. This was positive .proof of-forgery. Mr. Gladstone listened intently to Mr. Parnell’s explanations, and when they were finished showed, in common with the whole Liberal p arty, his satisfaction with them. The uniform impression is that Parnell has triumphantly vindicated himself.