Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — MRS. PARNELL RECOVERING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. PARNELL RECOVERING.

he Murderous Assault ort the Mother of the Great Home Ruler. Mrs. Delia T. S. Parnell, the aged mother of the dead'lrish home rule leader, who was murderously assaulted whije returning to her home near Bordentown, N. J., is now recovering, although her life was at first despaired of. Mrs. Parnell went to Bordentown in

the afternoon, and it was dark when she returned. Part of the Way back she was accompanied by Dan Griffin, and followed, it is said, at some distance, by a well-dressed young man in a light overcoat. Soon after Griffin left her has heard cries, and, rushing in the direc-

tion of the sound, found the old lady lying in the road and bleeding profusely. She had evidently been - struck on the. head with a brick. She was. moved to the house of John and Charles Casey, who work Mrs. Parnell’s farm. It was found that her purse had been stolen and also the key of her house which she carried with her. The Caseys, fearing that the absence of the house key was significant, kept a careful watch on the old mansion

Thursday night. What secrets were locked up in that old house nobody knows. What papers are hidden there that might affect more than one man connected with the home rule movement? Mrs. Parnell has been a central figure in Irish politics in this country. She has for years lived in her present home, overlooking the Delaware. She was the daughter of Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, who commanded the United States frigates Constellation and Constitution during the war of 1812. She was born in 1815 in the old homestead. While attending a presidential ball in Washington in 1841 she met her husband, John Henry Parnell. She was married in 1842 and went to live on the ancestral estate of the Parnell family, at Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland. She left the Parnell estate, fit Avondale, and came several years later to this country. She became a favorite in society and was at one time considered wealthy, having inherited a comfortable fortune from her father’s estate. Speculations in Wall street brought financial reverses, which lost her fortune. She, however, receives a pension of SSO a month on account of her father.

MRS. PARNELL.

MRS. PARNELL'S ROOM.