New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-15


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THEATRICAL SCANDAL.
der the Flies and Behind the Scenes
New versien Of Man and Wife.
The old, old story of matrimonial in
Judge Ingraham, Of the New York Supreme
Court. Josephine Fiddes, or rather she OF
this nom de theatre, and well known wife
of the actor DOminick Murray, importuned
the court for o decree of divorce from her
husband. Mr.. Edwin James, her counsel,
submit to | the proper initiatory papers, con-
sisting of the complaint, q petition Of the
complainant and her affidavit, all respective
" setting forth the grounds upon which the
divorce Is asked.
First in the complaint is announced the
is D0minick M0rOgh, and then follows the
recital Of the marriage Of the parties, which
took place, it appears, on the sixteenth of
March, 1863, in Liverpool, England. He
was an actor and she an actress when mar
ried. At the outset of his appearance on
the stage he changed the paternal cognomen
MOrOgh to the more euphonious Murray.
ard she chung to her maiden name, which
she still retains. Altogether, during their
md mol Is
the boundaries Of Great Britain. their matri-
m0nial life ran with comparative felicitOus
smoothness, as mutually happy as most
such lives are. They had their !ealousies
and their chickering's, and their ups and
downs, as regarded professional success.
Bothsstill followed the stage, he by his
clever approximations of Irish char
acters, which was his special role.
achieving growing professional re
beauteous blonde, by her sparkling style Of
acting, piquancy and versatility, carrying
captive the thr0nging crowds going to see
them in the dual characters. They played
in nearly all the principal towns and in the
large cities, including London, where
most successful engagement was played at
the Princess theatre. Thus matters ran on
till. the beginning of last year, when Jim
Fisk, j., captured her.
1869, and made her first appearance at the
Grand Opera House as Ariel, in "The Tenn
pest" As is also well known, she did not
come quite up to the managerial expecta-
tons Of the fastidiOus proprietor Of the
Grand Opera House, and so was politely in
formed that her services were no longer re-
quired. Though of that supposititiously
weaker feminine temperament, blonde.
she showed spirit. She was not to be cast
aside in any such way. She insisted on full
fillment of the stipulations Of the written
agreement, and brought suit against Jim
Fisk, Jr She won the suit, and the Grand
Opera House impresario had to give her a
check for $500 for failure to stick to his part
of the contract.
Shortly after this, that is to saw in June.
1869, Dominick Murray himself made his
appearance on our shores and played an en-
at Niblo's. 1t is unnecessary to
speak of the merits Of Mr.. Murray as an
actor, beyond the fact that he fully sus-
tanned his TRANSATLANTIC reputation. He was
not here long before he managed to get into
with Mr.. Henderson, the manag-
ing agent of Miss Lydia Thompson, the par
ticulars of which are too well known to
require recapitulati0n. He assumed to act
as the vindicator of his wife, the two, imme-
diately succeeding his arrival here, having
again resumed their former matrimonial re,
lations. Since that time the two have been
playing together most of the time, until very
recently: They have played in nearly all
the leading cities Of the United States,
Meantime, while assuming upon the stage
the most agreeable relations, and filing the
house with most uproarious laughter and
their pockets with money, through their
mutual smiles Of wit and love, their life off |
the stage, according to her account, was
very far from pleasant.
She charges hum with continuously treat
ing her in most brutal and inhuman man.
aer. In December, 1869, while they were
boarding in the house of Mr.. Beyan. No. |
as Thirty-third street, she saws he pushed
her, in one of his tahtrums, down q fight of |
stairs, from the effects Of which she sus-
tained severe injuries Again, while she
was sitting quietly in her bedroom. he
shocked, as she says, the door to pieces. and
threatened her with personal violence. to
escape which she had to take refuge in
light and hide herself in another room
These assaults and threats became of such
requent occurrence that finally, as she
lvers, she made up her mind to leave him.
As soon as he became aware of her purpose.
70 earnestly begged, however, to be for.
,iyen, and promised if she would recede
rom her resolution he would in future treat
Ter with every possible kindness, and by
lis good conduct thereafter make full
lmends Tor his past cruelty. According to
hese opportunities, she consented to con-
inue to live with him. This fare up, that
. nearly came to final separation, was in
kugust, 1870.
On the twenJy-ninth of last October she
oined her husband at Cleveland, and
and acted with him until the
wenty-ninth of last month, Now comes
he hair breaking the camel's back. This
apillary weight Of crushing woe and power
Vas thrust upon her at Buffalo. At the
otel where they were stopping she says
hat at three o'clock in the morning he en-
Bred the room where she was in bed, and
'ithOut any cause or justification whatever
sized her by the throat and struck her, and
OF satisfied with personal violence called
or by the most opprobrious epithets She
ad to invoke the assistance of the landlord.
no finally rescued her from the madly
lrious husband. and secured her safety by
wing her another room. Her mind was
ZEN and there made up that she could and
0uld stand no more OF this harsh brutality
I'd nonsense and degradation Of herself
fore others, which she atiirms he was
doing.
She determined, and she declares, to leave
m and seek redress in court, The only .
mcdy left her. She at once left Buffalo |
d came on to this city and made known
= case to Mr.. james, her counsel, who