The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-14
LIFE OF JENNY LIND.

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ftem-LIbels ON Miss LIMBS Husband.
From the London Ecto March 81.
Al the Kingston Assizes, yesterday, the case of
Goldschmidt VS.. Wyman was tried. This was
an action for libel brought by Mr.. Otto Gold
schmidt, the husband of the celebrated canta-
trice Jenny Lind, against the defendant, the
printer and publisher Of a weekly newspaper
called Public Opinion.
the libel-
JENNY LIND.-We take the following para
graph from WOOdIJuU d. Cidfin's WeetLy of tue
7th inst, published in New York: Jenny
Lind's husband has at length run through the
splendid fortune with which she retired from
the lyric stage, and she is compelled TO teach
music for living. The Unmatched pair have
separated by mutual consent, and the spend
thrift must now shift for himself"
The Solicitor General, in opening the case,
said that nineteen or twenty years ago Mr..
Goldschmidt married his present wife. II was
q marriage of affection, and they had lived to-
gether ever since, united In bonds of the hearth
est affection. The fortune which Madame Gold
schmidt possessed was settled upon her at the
time of the marriage and since then 1t has been
largely increased, and the whole had been prac-
tcally under her control They had lived in a
moderate and prudent manner, and If there
had been any excessive expenditure at all 1t had
been entirely In connection with those munih-
cent and splendid acts Of charity and generosity
with which the name of Madame Goldschmidt
would always be indissOlubly associated.
Madame Lind -Godschmidt said she was
native of Sweden. In 1852 she married Mr..
Otto Goldschmidt, who had assisted her at con-
cerls IN America. For some years they lived at
Dresden, and in 1858 they came to reside per-
lived at Wimbledon. They had always resided
together and had three children. Prior to her
marriage she was POSSESSED Of some fortune,
which was legally settled upon her. Her hus-
band had most judiciously assisted in the man
agement of her properly. She always had a
clear knowledge of everything connected with
it. Her fortune remained intact and unspent,
and since the marriage they had earned a con-
siderable sum Of money. That still remained
unspent AND was under the care of her former
guardian. She had the most perfect freedom in
regard to her property. and Mr.. Goldschmidt
had lived in a simple and inexpensive manner.
His anu emeDts and occupations had never
been separated from those of the family. There
had never been any pretense for saying that she
and her husband were Ill. matched, and they had
never been separated, except when she had been
away for her health. They had been continu-
ally persecuted since their marriage, and Mr..
Goldschmidt had been treated almost as though
he were q scoundrel. They had been on inti-
mate terms with persons Of the highest position,
| many OF whom we're In Court.
Mr.. Otto Godschmidt gave corroborative testi.
| mony. He had never been addicted to gam.
| bling. He had never been near gambling.
| table or biliard-tasle, nor had he ever had tune
| for such pursuits. He had no extravagant habits
| Every year proportion If the income was sci
! apart for Mime. Goldschmidt and two years age
! the whole of that amount had been vested fo
her in the names of trustees. Nine GOldschmld
! possessed nj the present moment more thar
double the amount of property she had at th'
time of marrying.
The Earl Of Leven had for four or five year
intimately known Mr.. and Nine Goldscbmidt
lie had never had the slightest reason to doub
| that they lived together on the best possD
terms. He did not know any one who tool
more care Of his property than did the plaintiff
Mr.. Du Cane, solicitor, spoke in the lhighes
terms of the attentlon paid by the plaintiff Il
the interests of his wife.
Mr.. Sergeant Ballentine expressed his entir
concurrence with the high terms In which bot
Mr.. and Nine. Goldschmidt had been spoken o
and admitted most fully that an indefensibl
attack had been made upon them. He urge
that the paragraph in question had been copie
from an American paper at very busy time
and had been inserted by the inadvertency of
gentleman In whom the proprietors OF the pape
had always placed the utmost confidence. o
the matter being brought under their motto
they took the earliest opportunity of inserting
full and ample apology. They came into Coui
without any intention TO resist the vereict
the Jury, and had instructed him TO admit full
that the attack was false and foul 0ne but
must at the same time ask the jury TO considC
that their journal had, up to this time, bee
conducted in a most respectable manner, an
that, when the fault was found out, they di
their utmost 10 remedy IT, aud would have COZ
sented TO any course being taken with tht
view.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
damages, E750.
In another action, Goldschmidt VS.. Spotti
woode the wel-known printer, for the publ
cation OF a libel of a similar character In d
American Register, the jury gave verdict
ESQ; and In a third case, against Mr.. Stiff,
verdict of G5OO was taken by consent