The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-29 00:00:00

THE QUEENSBERRY DIVORCE
CASE.

On Saturday, in the Court of Session, Edinburgh,
before Lord Trayner, evidence was heard in the
action for divorce at the instance of Sibyl, Mar-
chioness of Queensberry, living at 18, Cadogan-place,
London, against her husband, John Sholto Douglas,
Marquis and Earl of Queensberry, residing at 24,
James-street, London. The Marchioness of Queens-
berry was represented by the Dean of Faculty, Q.C.
(Mr. Mackintosh) and Mr. Graham Murray.
Major Hugh Montgomery, formerly of the oth
Dragoon Guards, and now resident in London, wos
the first witness. He deposed that he was a first
cousin of the Marchioness of Queensberry. He was
present at the marriage of the Marquis and Mar-
chioness, and he knew that they afterwards lived
together as husband and wife. •
Thomas Gill, 32, at present a servant of the Mar-
quis of Queensberry, deposed that he entered his ser-
vice in October, 1885. His lordship was living in
rooms at 24, James-street, London. He had a
sitting room, a bedroom, and a dressing-room. The
bedroom door wit; opened off the sitting room, and
there was a separate door into the passage. Lord
Queensberry lived there alone. Witness never saw
the Marchioness of Queensberry there. He remem-
bered the marquis telling him on November 2 that a
lady was going to call upon him. He mentioned the
lady's name, and said he was not to be at home to
any one else. The lady called late in the afternoon
and stayed to dinner. In the course of the afternoon
witness had occasion to go up into the dining-room.
He first took up tea and found no one in the
room. Ho went up about half an hour afterwards,
and there was no one there then. After that he
went up to the Marquis of Queensberry's bedrooin
with hot water. He knocked at the door and tried
it, tut it was locked. His lordship answered him
from within, and told him to place the hot water
down at the door. Later on in the same
evening, about eight o'clock, the witness went into
the dining-room and saw the young lady standing
between the doors. Lord Queensberry was in the bed-
room. He let the lady out about 11 o'clock that
evening. The lady called next on November 23. The
same thing exactly happened, with the exception that
witness did not try the door. When his lordship
called him from the sitting room for hot water he
walked into the bedroom and found them 'he'll there.
The next time that the lady called was in 4..1-113 end of
March or the begianing of April. The le,z,t occasion
on which the lady called was October 15 last. Wit-
ness let her in between five and six o'clock. She
dined with the Marquis of Queensberry. They were
together in the bedroom on that occasion.
Wil:iam lluckling, 31, deposed that at one time be
was valet to the Marquis of Queenfeerry, whose ser-
vice he left on May 8, 1885. He had seen the
lady referred to in his lordship's rooms in James-
street. The witness satisfied himself that his ma-ter
and the lady were in the bedroom. That happened
several times.
, Lord Trayner said he had read the evidence taken
in London, and he pronounced a decree of divorce.

The desili was announced on Monday of Mr. Sajeant
Sleigh at Ventnor.