The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-04-08 00:00:00

A PLOT TO RESCUE THE IRISH " INTIN•
CIBLE" cumers.

The Irish authorities are stated lobe in poop...ion of
important inforination as to plots by the Irish Lavin-
ciblee, who are work,u to conjunction with the
American dynamitards. Some months a4o, the
Scotlandiard detectives brought tx Duolin discovered
that a clandestine corresi,ndence was being car-
ried on between leading members of the Invincible.
untiergoiog penal servitude in Dubili pris ice, and
the conepiritors outal le. An investigation war
hell in M .uutjoy prism, and warders were brought
from Spike Island C oarict prison. lovestigations were
continued, and in James Mulletee cell eventually some
Important letters were discovered. These disclosed a
plot to blow up Mountj iy prison and rescue the la-
vincible convicts. The warders were to be bribed from
the skirmishing and dyuamite fund. in Resas. hands,
and were to convey inferual machinea into the prison.
laths confusion caused by the explosions the prisoners
were to escape. One of the lettere contained an
order to murder Delany. the Invincible, convicted of
attemptin4 t murder Judge Laws in. Delany gave all
the a.sietsuce in hi. power to the Cloverument officials,
and throu4h his inform stion wetly arrests sod con-
victions were brou.tht about. Toe design was that
as Delany left the prison chapsl after masa he
should be thrown over the balcony. The removal
of the Invincible convicts to Ecglish prisons, as
recently reported, IrSP, on this disc ivery, immediately
carried out. Delany, however, is kept in Mountjoy
prison for his owe s atty. When the " Invincible.,"
were taken from their cells for removal to England,
groans were given by them for the G.ivernment, and
hearty cheere for the " Invancibles. I unnedi stely
afterwards • number of warders were dismissed, re-
ceiving a month', pay in lion Oi notice.

AY ARISTOCRATIC MATRIMONIAL SUIT.
la the Probst' and Moose* Division of the iligh
Court of Justice us Friday, the mit of Sono v. Smith
(oniowise Eden ) cause before Sr Jsums Moues and •
spatial tory. It was a petition promoted toy Henry
Jemes. Eal of Ist on, eidot son of the Dske of Graf ton,
pray ins fr the u.il,oty of his war.ime with Kate Ws sh
Smith, comworiy cal.l C ountess of Eon:), on the
Around that at the Sine of the first mamas* the reorin•
deo,t than. onsvied woos,. whose hushed' was then
and S. it II alive.
Mr. C. &mil, Q.C.. and Mr. Murphy,
appeared for the postloser ; sod Mr. I oder wick,
Ms. Soule, and 11r. Mootegue Walloon for the steams.

Mr. C. Russell. in opening the moo, said that the
P Minter was the eidetic son of the Doke of Craton,
mid the respondent, Itate Walsh Smith, common.),
Called Countess or Emtoo, ant it wee alleged that at
the time rmpoudoht went through the ceremony of
merrier* wit e the petitioner she was not • single woman
hut th it her turner buitmad was still ahem in the
year 1070 the petitioner formed tee acquaontentis of the
▪ p ted•ot, who was then pawn( by the name of Kam
C mks She was • courtman. Ste told the pet Moiler tbot
atm had been limue with a grutieueen, hat teat she had
left Lite. Th r omit, however, wee toot the merriage of
the petit' ener took Were on Dm thle of May, 1871, at
r, the r.epondont roptematiug 11• rani. it •
yr.d and giving her now... Rote Walah Smith. Tee
froends of too p,titiooor end., turned ti pteveat the
marriage : but without sleet. 02 the matriage the peti-
tioner was poems...el of £lO.OOO in his own roubt. This
he settled on 1. reep tudent ; but uulortuastely the
money was tottusted to Yr urged, and he mute away
with the whole amount. in., puttee lived together for
▪ four plan., but in 11475 4,lfitroneot aro, bet •een
thou ant- • .aperatton 1.1 place. Tort, bid f t.-
nat..ly limn no issue of the =amaze. Toe petitioner
rrint to Austmilie Re attuned U mornotoot woploy•
total, hut evenoue..y he returned to Raglairt, and then
doubts tame as to the respondent being • widow at the
time at white elatt warned the petitioner. It wee dig-
coveted that site had prod i only ruerri..d a man named
0 o go Markley not toO 0.1.4.101 J. it St Manao'e
C Glasgow. Toe rrapoadent bed stetoa that
h., Meehan I. G.orgn Manley Smith, had gene down
in the ill-laird etearair I..sedan;r on inquiry itwoe
fount tbat pallbearer oa teat ill-fetel tamp wail
o rga Malin Suitt'l, but that that permit was not
the re-prod.-et'e fotmer buelhenti. Tie respondent Moo
wearied that at the time she warned Smith he bade wife
alive
_

Ewan°, moraine I by M. C. It sooell.ssld : I
SIC p 111 He'll hi, cow. •n.I forced the acquaint moot
of Kele Cook in 1879. 1 lived with hot for Some months.
and flnaily went through the tualyinge ceremony with
her on the MA Mn', 1871. 1 nettled oCIO,OOO on her.
and Mr. Froggett, tho solicit .r, wan tory trairee Offer.
encl. otosc h4rrhen nri sad 1 wont to Au.tx.ll% whets
I obtains! Omnipotent empOoycornt. mod 1 returned to
En •Innif.

ras-examtned by Mr, Inderwick I lived with her
sin month* before I married her. Sim was tie.
living in Mootpslieryquare I learned that she had
been previously muried. She never Informed me her
former husband waa Site teld me that her former
husband had bean lost in the unfortuitate steamer
Lnodoo.

The jury found that. although the present couutess
WU already inerried at the time of bor marriage with
the earl. still, al her husband's first wife wai than
Uvine, that marriare well unlawful. They found,
therefore, that the earl was lawfully married to her,
aid d6ogase4 his petit on for dissolution of marriage
with costs.