ABSTRACT
All the “Suspects” of a certain class dined together in Charles Stewart Parnell’s room every evening, and they were allowed free access to one another’s apartments during the day. Notwithstanding so much licence, to one in Charles’s position, accustomed to the luxuries of Avondale, life in Kilmainham, even under such comparatively easy circumstances, was very severe, and it was always remembered as the most trying time he had passed. A month after his return to Kilmainham, Charles was released, and proceeded to Avondale, where he stayed for a while, hoping to recruit his shattered health, which was never the same again as it had been prior to his incarceration. The warder, instead of doing so, immediately informed the governor of Charles’s attempted bribe, thereby bringing on him a week of solitary confinement and stricter surveillance.
