The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-15
A Domitian-like MISUNDERSTANDING
ary Cruelty to Young and Hand
aome Wife.

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The following sad story was told in the Dl-
vorce Court Of Great Britain on the 21st of
November: In 1851 Miss Theresa Caroline
Bishop was introduced 10 the Hon. Hugh
Rowley, sen of the late Lord Langford, an
Irish peer, at Ryde, in the Isle Of Wight.
Shortly afterward he proposed and was ac-
cepted, and they were married at Paddington
In January, 1882. They went Immediately
after the marriage to Paris, and remained
there for three weeks. According to the evil
dence of Mrs. Rowley, her husband soon be-
gan to treat her with great harshness, and on
one occasion, about throe weeks after the mar
riage, locked her up in sitting room from
seven O'Clock In the evening until four the fol-
lowing morning, without fire or candles They
went from Paris to Calais for few days, and
there he beat her. They next visited Brus-
sells. During their stay they visited Waterloo,
and on their journey home he tore the bonnet
from her head and threw 1t into the road, and
forced his hat over her eyes.
From Brussels they went to Frankfort,
travelling in q compartment Of a railway car
riage by themselves. He kept kicking her
during the journey because, as he said, some
one had looked at her at the station. When
she arrived at Frankfort she tainted, and was
taken to a hotel. She asked for glass Of
water on coming to her senses, and be forced
spoonful Of salt down her throat. They af-
forward returned to Paris and travelled by
diligence from Strasbourg. The journey ooca-
pied twenty hours, and he did not allow her
to got out Of the carriage all the time. She
mentioned various other acts Of ill-usage. In
March, 1858, while they were at Boulogne, he
cut off her hair, saying he did 80 because she
priced 1t. About the same time he pulled her
out of bed when she was III, and threatened to
strike her with meat chopper. He also re-
fused to let doctor attend her, and she sent
for one without his knowledge.
In January, 1883, they were at Dundalk, in
ireland, where regiment In which he held a
commission, the sixteenth Lanoers, was quar-
tered. Among other modes Of i'll treatment
which he there praotioed, be never allowed
her to leave the house. He told her that the
officers Of his regiment had held q sham court
martial upon him because he had boasted of
beating his wife. Tho result was that in the
following May he left the army. They after
ward lived together at Brussels for thirteen
months, but he was In the constant habit Of
going away and leaving her for week at a
time. During part of the years 1854 and
1855, she lived with her mother and with Mr.
and Mrs. Gye, who are friends of her family
Mr.. Rowley made frequent promises of amend
ment, and at thebeginning Of 1856 they again
lived together in lodgings, in Upper Berkeley
street.
On the 24th of May, 1855, he went away
saying he would return in few days and
take her abroad, and leaving an address to
which she could write. She did write several
letters, but received no answer and neye,
saw nor heard anything of him until few
months ago. She said he had never given hei
as much as a sixpence from the time of thsil
marriage. She prayed for a decree on the
ground of adultery, desertion and cruelty. II
was proved by other witnesses that Mr.. Row.
ley, after leaving his wife, had gone to live
with Mrs. Green, a widow, at the house Of
her mother, in Edinburgh, and that from May
1858, until April, hennd Mrs. Green cohabited
as man and wife at lpplepon, in Devonshire
In April 1859, Mrs. Green died, and he left
the place. A dissolution of marriage wal
decreed. L-AL ~ A---