The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-20
WOlnan's influence

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WOman's influence
ROM ANTIC WILL CASE
The final decision on a "wl case," involving
facts or issues and circumstances of n most rO-
mantle nature, has recently been given in Dub
lin, by Mr.. Justice Champion. The case was so
complicated and puzzling, that it occupied the
time and attention of the legal Tribunals for sew.
eral years-sometime portending or pronounc-
ing victory for respondent, and occasionally
opening up vistas of hope for appellant.
In delivering the judgment of the court of del
egates, or of final appeal Chief Justice Cramp
ton recapituated full bill Of particulars evolv-
ing such history of crime, RIGHTEOUSNESS, fe-
male fascination and intrigue, professional per-
fidy, mental imbecility, and infatuation, as but
seldom transpires in a contested family claim for
the subdivision of property.
A Dublin attorney, named Hugh Kelly, |
through great ability in his calling, and by indie
fatigable noIstry and unusual probity in early
life, accumulated large fortune-amounting to
$4,000 per annum of real estate income and
over $l25,000 of personal property. He did
not marry in early life, but contracted an init
macy which produced an illegitimatc daughter
on whose care and culture he iavished an abun-
dance of paternal love. In the year 1922, he
happened to be at Bath, in England, where his
daughters education was being completed. In
that gay and fashionable resort, he met young
lady of beautiful person and fascinating manners
named Edgecome, to whom, according to testi-
mony given on the trial, he made proposals of
marriage, which were then rejected. In the year
1927, this lady came over to Dublin, where she
again encountered and renewed her acquaintance
with Mr. Kelly Her extreme beauty and irresist-
ibe attractions of manner and accomplishments
procured her many devoted admirers but, Ell
ther from impure associations, perverted do
nestle training, or radically corrupt inclination
her morals were not guided by the principles or
practices of virtue She lived under the protec-
ton of several gallants--at one time as Mrs.
Meredith, Mt another as Mrs Cue, and so forth.
In the language of the poet
"When once sunk in,
Her woman Is soul could know
No pause in SIM"
In the Irish metropolis she fell so low, and be-
came 80 degraded as, in the summer of woman
hood educated and beautiful. to become mistre SIS
of disreputable establishment in Danze street,
Immediately at the rear of Mr.. Keliy's splendid
mansion in Merton Square. The millionaire
soon found his old acquaintance out, and became
permanent visitor at her notorious residence
And here, too, in this haunt of fashionable and
npper-ten vice and prehgacy, the poor old man
(for his years were in the midwinter of exstence)
became so infatuated by this English womans
eleRan: manners and fascinating person, that he
prosta.ed bis mind and judgment beneath her
Influence and control. Mr. Kelly not only took
her from her infamous abode but became united
to her by some private and questionable cere-
mony of marriage. Having magnificent seat
in the county of Roscommon, named Kiltoon,
the old man was 80 fond of his prize that he lost
no time in taking her down to show her off to
his country neighbors. So desperate was be
touching all antecedents of her life, and so rccb
less did her influence render him, that he took
his beautiful fallen angel TO public bali in the
town Of Roscommon, where she appeared in
blaze of pearls and diamonds before the proud
descendants of some of the Oldest and proudest
blood of ti@e-honered Milesian race of the West
of Ireland The heightened aristocratic ladies'
present on the occasion were not only alfronted
that vulgar attorneys wife, forward and i'm
pudent paryenu, should force her wealthy pre-
tensions on them, but some Of the gentlemen
fox-hunters recognized in the person of Mrs
Kelly the notorious courtezan, Mrs Cue, Of
Danzille street
An instant storm was the consequence Kelly !
was kicked down stairs, while his lovely but
frai! partner was allowed to decamp with n
'stiger," in which those ladies', whose pedigrees
dated from before the food, heartily joined
This incident so CALLED the subject of it, that
she appealed touchingly to, and worked upon
the sympathies of the unhappy man she had rem
dered her slave. Through the agency Of wes
and nachinations, Of which she was perfect mis-
tress abe contrived to separate Mr. Kelly from
all his relatives connections, and friends, there
by preventing them benefting by this wealth,
oithar duriuU his life or after hia death
Shortly after this. the monaire's health be-
gan to break down his spirits became depressed,
nervousness and irritability supervening to
great extent The young and charming wife
became indispensable to his being, to sooihe his
ruffled temper and satisfy his whims and cccen-
tricties. Finding his health declining, and ideas
Of death occasionally fitting across his mental
wanderings, he resolved to make will, in which
he rendered certain dispositions OF property TO
his relatives and charitable institutions, which
wee by no means agreeable TO his better half
The event of this testamentary document and
other misovings created uneasiness and alarm
ia the mind IF the cormorant with whom the
miserable old ia associated his fate Born of
= rood family in Lancashire, England, and pos
sessed OF a decidedly superior education, this
woman knew that the most undonbted security
of the Iur was necessary to insure her the pos
session Of the vast personal .and real estate ac-
cumuIated by her victim, in the event OF his
death With this view she formed species OF
semi criminal association with an unscrupuIUls
and unprincipled attorney named Malone. with
whom she pretended to be smitten, and to whom
che promised her hand and fortune Immediately
after the old mans demise BY the advice of
this 1" Oily Cannon" and in obedience 10 GER
tain netincts in reference TO her marriage, she