The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-28 00:00:00

_AN lOU DIVOKGR OiUSE.

In the D.% Court .1 on I Lord Peng
hail before him the cause of Kiogsoote e. Kingecoe aeg
Holier. To lion. F. Thealger was euun-el for Use
petitioner, and Dr. Spirits and Dr. Prichard ter the
re- p, n lent, and Mr. It. Searle for the it i-reispongene.
Mr. Thesigtr said this was a petition by fleet., Brous.
fl II Kiroscote. Ii entenant in tee Royal Artillery. co
dissolution of his marriage with Loupes Catherilie kings.
cote, on tit.. ground of her soldiery with the on-respoe.
dent, an offioer in the 2n4 Life Guards. The respeoenb
and co-roepondent hat 111.'1 pito' in„r the cha-ree.
I Tim paries were married on the Mat of March,
I and the petitioner was at that time 27 years of age,y4
the respondent, • daughter of liket-General Ridley
was at the time 24 years of age. They co-bahlteg
Ostlands, Dorchester, Ito. in ()Weber, 1/170, the
petitioner wes appointed aidedt-camp to tin. Dui,'
Virothl, at Woolwich. Ho then took a furbished 11
In that piano, and resided there till Febmary of this
year, when 'hero Was • sepsration beam,., a
adultery with oe-respond, at. Up to that ins
petitoner dot not have the slightest idea of his wife',
f &Dbl. swiss, though there hat been aocusatioas
estravaganco made. The respondent ere in
of coming an to London at she Allege.' 1.,
and owing to tur sometimes coining home let. Lb,
petit:oner compleined, but Mre. Minootits tap:Amen by
Laying that she had been to ere sotue lady (nem.
The co-respondent wan on Intimate terms with die
parties, and the petitioner and he was in the
cricket alub. In February. of this yra-, the petitiothe
met the co-respondent, and it was at this
and his wife attended • ball at Wintsor, &pi the,
they
ball that the petitioner first complained of hit inks
conduct, aunt he did complain of h., d.tocing too fret
quontly with the 00-respoudcut, awl alter Ito b.j
quarrel WOK place on the subject. For all this the
petitioner wt.,' not ottopicrous till the liith of February,
and on that date the petitioner found • letter hi he
wife's dressing case. The letter commenced,
own, own darling true wife," and it was written ie rag
impassioned terms, though the language WAS MAW
feeble. The epistle ended by the c,•rebnongent aiglinag
himself "Your own hualosnd, Cribrae." After chi,, of
oeuree, Mr. Kingsoote mule ampule, disco, rt.l that
adultery hal houu committed my toll wife on the 10:1,
19th, 20th, 21ot, aol 23r.1 of thot itiontn. iktoretu the
18th and the 'Anti it happoucal th•t Jot petitiottor
away in Liertfurti•ltioe, to two • brother, who Was
to bail for Australia. After fiutbug tLu letter rafetrol
to, the petitioner never abo, ii, tbo holm indrawn.
On the 20th the petitioner returned trout 'holm.
shire, and his wife told him that during hot 'pretax the
had visited some lady friends, and wilo one of thee
she wont to the theatre, sad there root time Cs impend.
oat. The fact Wan that on Ulu ttiri Mn. litsensie
CAM° to L endue, the landlady of the liedford lintel
Teo:Weis a letter from tile ll•rf,SpOUllutia. Ulistllg a
private room, ab. d-room and • dreamier-room, sal,
that occasion the respondent ant co-respondent inset
tbe night together. On the 24th of February ihe
petitioner went to the Button: doter aui sr. the
respondent and co-reap/utast together. Totes was as
suggestion, he believed, that the ptitivaer had het
guilty of any cots-lust which might emeueste that d
his wife. _ .

The evidence of the petitioner, taken by minimills'
in India, WAS then row', which woe a reiterative of ths
iogseutc
F44'4l.'l'l'l
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learned orounsere stetement.
toThthomeupetittoner. who was at present with ia
regiment in India. lie recognised the photographs
dthidollenro.:Tiskeisigthbeerronsaohioesedr'st-ihtwaytifoehioaralleadi..g them. hi
Lord Penzance and the louned ceumel on the oikt
side said that there wee no occasion to read them.
Coarles Gear, bead waiter at the Bedford tfokl, eM
on the 23rd of February • letter was handoil to hum by
the landlady. The letter products] was re. I.,ver. Is
the afternoon • gentleman, calling himself Mr. Lai*
came to the hotel. On his coming he matt d hi
rooms Wtrt) ready, and willies, od 'Loy were. ha Ctif
afterwaida thedody strived iii a cib. Subseqaentlyhe
maid arrived with • trunk on obeli wore tne whale
"L. K. K. They west away tie next nigh'. lid
seen the same-lady and gentleman on the 21Ela nod
and they dined in ri private sitting-mom and rainiest
from 1 p. or. till 11 p. in.
Dr. Spinks did out crusa-ex Holm, the Mites,.
Emma tome, cia.mbermaid at the Be dudhotel, no.
membtrod on the 23rd of February • lady sad csatiouse
miming to the hotel. They did hot ga, ther names
to her. The photographs produced were prtraita of
them.
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They slept together, and witnesa wal miler tt,tm
pression that they were man and elk.
Lard Penzanee : That is sufficient. T rosta s
decree nisi for • dissolutim of LIO 111 Al /fade.
Decree anoordinigly.