Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-24
An H ,nor.Dro aud Ganlaut' Husband.

The following sal story was told in the Divorce
Court of Great Britain the 2lst of of November:
In 1851. Miss Theresa Caroline Bishop was intro.
duced to the Hon. Hugh Rowlcy, son of the late
Lord LlngTOrl lrIsu peer at hyde in the Isle OF
1ht Shortly at:er he proposed and he was accept
ed AMI they were IN trrlei At PaiIlnSton ii JdnGa
~. 1872. They went immediately after the mar
ridge to Paris and remained. there TOR three weeks
According TO the evidence of Mrs. ROwley. her nus
band begun to treat her with great harshness
and on one occasion, about three weeks after
the marriage, locked her up in sitting room from
sevel OcI gck in the evening uItil four tie 70 low
! ing MOI ming without Are candies They Wen
| from Paris to CALAIS f." few days and I. ere
| he beat her They next visited Brussels. During
their star they visited Na,eI loo. ami their Jour
| ney home he tore the bonnet from her head and
threw it into tle road and forced his hat over her
/ eyes.
From Brussels they went TO Frankfort. travelling
! in compartment or a railway carriage by them
selves tie kept kicking her during the Journey
btcausea he sail some IN hal looked at her AT tie
station When she arrived at Frankfort she tainted
and was taken ~ d hotel. She asked for glass OF
water coming to her senses, and he forced a
| spoonful Of salt dOwnher throat They afterwards
/ returned Paris and Travelled BY diligence from
! Strasbourg. The Journey occupied twenty hours,
and he did not allow her 70 get out Of the carriage
| all the time. She mentioned various other acts of
i'll usage In March. in 1858, while they were at 30
lOgne lie cut off her hair, saving he did because
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out of bed when she was ILL., and threatened TO strike
her with meat chopper He also refused to let
doctor attend her. and she sent for without his
/ knowledge
In January, 1853, they were at Dundalk. in Ire
! land. where a regiment in which he then held
commission the 10th lancers, was quartered
Among other modes of ill-treatment which he there
praCtCed he never allowed her to leave the house
! lie told her that she officers Of his regiment had
| held sham court martial upon him because he had
boasted of beating his wife The result was that in
| the month Of May following he left the army
! They afterwards lived together at Brussels for
thirteen months but he in the constant habit of
! going away and leaving her for a week at time
During part of the years 1854 and 1855. she lived
! with her mother aud with Mr.. and Mrs. Gye. who
/ are friends of her family. Mr.. Rowley made fire.
/ ouent promises Of amendment and at the beginning
Of 1856 they again lived together in lodgings in Up
/ per Berkev street
On the Path of Nav. 1856 he went away, saying
he would return in few days and take her abroad,
and leaving an address by which she could write.
She did Erte several letters, but received no an
swcr and never saw or heard ANYTHING Of him
until few months ago. She said he had never
given her as much a slX-pencc from the time Of
their marriage She prayed for a decree on the
groand of adultery, dcSertiOn and cruelty. 1t was
proved by other witnesses that NJ. Rowley, after
leaving his wife, had gone to live with Mrs.
Green. widow. at the house of her mother IN
Edmburg and that from May, 1855, until April. he
and Mrs Green cOhabited as man and wife at lppie-
ton, in DeYonshre In April. 1889. Mrs. Green died,
aad he left the place. dissolution Of marriage
decreed.