The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-12-11 00:00:00

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the offer made by Lady Colin through Lady Miles ell".".....""rsiwr'-rrear r'i—.g.'4.r."-av- - IRELAND.
was dishonourable and immoral, and he strongly IDLE, BENT WAR IN
declined to accede to it. Witness informed Lady THE LANDLORDS DEFIED.
Miles that what had taken place at the interview be
The National League met on Tuesday in Dublin,
should consider private. Lady Miles then said she
when it was announced that the receipts since the last
could speak to an act of adultery of Lord Colin with
meeting from the Irish branches were .£514, and from
a certain Amelia Edwards, and she said she should
Austislia £56. The grants to evicted tenants
place the matter before Mr. Lewis. Witness had
amounted to £165. The Lord Mayor (who presided)
heard Lady Miles's evidence, and be beard all the story
said that so far the Government, though doubtless
about Mary Watson sitting on Lord Colin's knee for
hard pressed by the landlords, had been quite unable
the first time in court. to cope with the anti-rent, or rather anti-rack-rent
Cross-examined by Sir C. Russell, witness stated
movement. Government might employ all the re-
that Lady Miles distinctly told him she had seen an sources of Edward 111., Charles 1., and ottes despots
act of adultery. As far as he knew there was no
of past times, and reintroduee the obsolete statutes
servant of the name of Edwards, but that was the made for the repression of disorder in uncivilised
name her ladyship used.
Sir Charles: When Lady Miles made this state- ages, and they would be as far as ever from attaining
the objects they had In view. Mr. T. M. Healy defied
ment about the alleged adultery of Lord Colin, did the landlords to recover :against the trustees of the
you say, "This is a very awkward story," or anything
tenants by garnishee order. He warned the landlords
of that sort ?—Certainly not. I said nothing. 1 that if they did not listen to reason tiny would be in
gave her no information at all, no better condition than Lord Cloncurry, who ex-
You were not the original solicitor for Lord Cohn' ended £lO,OOO in trying to recover one or two
• -No; Messrs. Broughton were. Eundred pounds. If the tenants remained staunch
Have you the report handed over to you by Messrs.
they had victory within their grasp; if thoy banded
Broughton when you became solicitor of Lord Colin?
themselves together they would soon make their po-
-I have, but I decline to produce it. sition absolutely impregnable.
One witness has been called from the Purfleet Hotel.
Mr. A. M'Hugh, editor of the Sligo Champion, has
Had you other witnesses from the Purfleet Hotel in been served with a summons to appear at the Mullah-
attendance ?—Yes. roe Petty Sessions to show cause why he should not
Had you the landlord here ?—No; not the land- be bound over to be of good behaviour, or go to gaol
lord, for six months, for delivering a speech at Gorteen, co.
Sligo, on October 10, in which he solicited and incited
divers persons to conspire to disturb the peace, and to
raise disaffection and discontent amongst her Majesty's
subjects.
The eviction of Tim Hurley from his residence at
Castleview, near Clonakilty, was effected on Tuesday.
Hurley himself was in Cork awaiting his trial for
naving explosives in his possession. The sub-sheriff
and eight bailiffs, accompanied by the constabulary,
went to the scene by special train. Their movements
were kept secret, and their arrival being quite unex-
pected, no resistance was offered. -
A largely attended meeting, under the plan of cam-
paign, was held on Tuesday at Ballyhannis. Mr.
Crilly, M.P., and Mr. Redmond, M.P., addressed the
gathering, and the tenants of Lord Dillon afterwards
paid in their rents to trustees.

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Why not ?—I am afraid I must decline to answer
that question.
Well, Tom Tidy, the head waiter ?—Yes.
Mrs. Felon, the housemaid ?—I believe so.
Walter Grover, was he in attendance here ?—I think
eo ; Tam not sure.
Have you given directions that these witnesses '
should see Lady Cohn?
Mr. Finlay objected to tin s question, and after an
argument, Mr. Justice Butt decided that it had better
not be put.
Under cross-examina'ion by the Attorney-General,
witness said he did not see Lord Colin Campbell sign
the doeument for the warrant on June 9, 1884. He
was not In Paris at the time. Witness was in Paris
in 1883. He went to the Palais de Justice with his
agent's clerk to give information. The statement in
the information that "our client, Lord Cohn Camp-
bell, has just informed me that his wife is at present
at Monte Carlo with the Duke of Marlborough" he
believed came from Boyd, the detective. He could
note say that Lady Colin had been to Monte Carlo
at all.
By the Solicitor-General: Witress was Lord Colin's
solicitor in the action brought '•-y Dr. Bird for his
fees for attendance upon Lord Colin and Lady Colin.
The defence was that Dr. Bird's attendance was
voluntary. No charge of adultery was made against
Dr. Bird till May, 1885, when the petition was
arrended, and Dr. Bird's name was introduced.
Further questioned by Sir C. Russell, witness said
there was no imputation upon Lady Colin at the last
trial.
The Duke of Argyll was then called by Mr. Firlay,
though he had been subeceaned by Lady Colin. Mr.
Finlay tried to get in evident to the effect that the
duke disapproved of the marriage, but his lordship
ruled it out of order.
Sir C. Russell then called for a hector to the Duke
from Lady Colin Campbell, dated Aug. 15. 1883, in
in which she went into full details of the cause of her
disagreement sv:th Lord Colin, complaining of his
tyranny, and insisting upon her cohabiting with him,
which she found to he impossible in his condition. A.
letter from the Duke was read in reply, in which his
Grace said he behaved the charges against his son to
be untrue, and as he looked upon her ladyship's
letter as part of a system of intimidation he should
decline all further correspondence.
Lord Colin Campbell weneernto the witness box
directly after luncheon. Examined by Mr. Look•
wood he spoke to meeting Miss Blood in the High-
lands in September, 1880, to the circumstances of
their engagement, and to two unsuccessful operatioas
he had undertone. lle was not at the time suffering
from any infectious disease. Before the marriage
he took medical advice from Mr. Probert, and he
carried out that advice to the best of his ability. He
was told by Lady Colin, when Miss Blood, that she
and her sister and some other person had gone to the
theatre with Lord Blandford, and his reply was
that he did not think they were in good company
He had known Captain Shave a long time, but did
not know General Butler or Dr. Bird. He was
married in Jts'y, 1881, and in October, 1881, he was
released by tits medical attendants from the prohibi-
tion rlaced upon him in regard to cohabitation.

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When staying at Argyll Lodge he learnt that Lord
Blandford had called. After he took the house at
Caiogan-place he sent some papers there, and in-
tended to go and sort them over. He told Lady
Colin that he had changed his mind, and should not
go. Afterwards, however, be did go, and found in
the drawing-room Lady Colin and Captain Shaw.
Another day he found Lord Blandford there.
While at Argyll Lodge he objected to Lady
Colin's driving with Captain Shaw. On remon-
strating with her she became violent. Witness knew
when his wife first went to Paris that Lady Miles was
going with her, but did not know who else accom-
panied her. He remembered Rosa Baer being dis-
missed by his wife. He had himself given no orders
in the matter. On the 27th Lady Colin left him to
go to Leigh Court while he was stilt confined to his
bed. She had not during this time devoted much
attention to him. He had a long conversation with
Lady Colin about Lord Blandford and Captain Shaw,
and she promised him they should not visit her. She
asked him not to be suspicious of her. It was
after that he believed that they went to dine
with Lord Blandford. On that occasion his wife
was very irritable, and she went into a room to
talk to Lord Blandford, leaving witnem standing
in the hall. The interview with Lady Miles was in
February, 1883. He had not, fitness said, at that
time made any overtures to his wife to induce her to
resume cohabitation. The afternoon of the same day
Lady Colin came into his room crying, threw her arms
round his neck, and then burned the letter which he
had sent her through Lady Miles. She did not tell
him that she had kept a copy. He did not advise his
wife to use precautions against infection. Witness
went to Sion House in July, and Lady Colin
came down on the following Saturday. He told his
wife he was very uncomfortable about her conduct
with other men. He could not remember what she
said to that, except that she was very violent. She
gave him to understand that she oared more for
other persons than for him. He asked her if she had
been unfaithful, and she replied, "Do you wish to
insult me?" She also said, "If you put me in the
Divorce Court, you'll get the worst of it." Lady
Colin then went to town to see her mother.
At this point the court adjourned till Wednesday