The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-09-26

= MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH NOBILITY FALLS IN Low
WITH HIS OWN DAUGHTER-HIs SEPARATION FRoA
HIS WlFE-A SUIT FOR RESTITUTION OF CoNJUGA1
RIGHTS. ~
most extraordinary case has recently beer
heard IN the Court of Divorce, in London, be-
lorc Lord Penzance, the Judge of the Court
1he Hon. Henry Lotus, the nephew of the
+ Marquis of Ely, has had his omestic,circumstan
ces revealed to the world, and it would have
been well for him and fdf his own family if he
mad concealed his sorrows in his own breast
In 1851 Henry Lotus held commission as
Lieutenant in her Majesty's Life Guards, and
was allowed by his uncle, the Marquis, $500
per dnnum. He was very handsome, about six
feet high, with large blue eyes, black eyebrows,
and was an exceedingly well built man. At a
ball given at Lady Palmerston's he became ac-
quainted with Miss Adeline Montgomery,
whose father had been chief attache to the
British Embassy in Paris. After few months
acquaintance they were married, and Mr. Lof.
tus sold his commission and went to reside in
Brussels, his income being too small to enable
him to live in England in the style to which he
had been accustomed prior to his marriage.
About fourteen months after his marriage his
wife gave birth to beautiful child that was
christened Emmeline Montgomery. They had
a handsome house on the Rue Madeleine. and
mixed in the first circles of society They
often dined with the King and Queen of the
Belgians at the palace of the King. They be-
came acquainted with q Baron Steiner. a
young and handsome Belgian who wrote beau.
tltul love sonnets, and at the same time was
ar accomplished musician Mr.. Lotus oc-
casionally visited Paris, and sometimes made
short visits to London. Baron Steiner was,
like Dean Swift, great admirer of female
beauty, but only in the abstract. Mrs LOTUS
gns ands e.,
ative of the highest style of English beauty.
and in Baron Steiner's leisure hours, and they
were many, he composed some very beautiful
sonnets addressed to the beauty he so much
admired. lie wrote them partly for amuse-
ment aud partly to CRAFTY the vanity of Mrs
Lotus. In August. 1869, Mr.. LOTUS after
short excursion to Paris, returned unexpected
ly to Brussels, and he found the Baron Steiner
in the drawing-r0om with his wife. The Baron
was half intoxicated and under the influence
of champagne he had been imbibing he showed
Mr. Lotus the last sonnet he had addressed to
his vile. 1t was al lmpassioned sonnet, and
Lotus tore it in pieces and kicked Steiner out
of the house. The Baron, stung by the indig-
nifty, challenged Lotus to mortal combat. Mr..
Lotus accepted the challenge, seconds were
obtained, and in the suburbs of Malmes, which
is situated a few miles from Brussels, they
through the brain and lay dead on the field. |
Lotus returned with his seconds to Brussels
He informed his wife of the result of the duel |
She heard of the Baron's death, apparently
with composure, but at length she burst into
flood of tears. In defiant tone she said to |
her husband: 1t is better that we part" A |
deed of separation was accordingly drawn up, |
and Lotus returned to London. Mrs. LOTUS
REMARKED in Brussels, giving up the house
they had occupied but hired less expensive
house, and her daughter Emmeline was her
especial care. AS the mother grew in years
she became incapable of controlling her pas
sions. On two occasions she hurled at her
daughter carving knife, which, fortunately,
missed her. When Emmeline Lotus arrived
at eighteen years of age she left her home, and
proceeding by the train to Ostend took the
steamer for Dover, and three hours subsequent
ly was alone in the great city of London. Here
she obtained a situation as governess. In Sep
tember, 1870, she was walking in the Regents
Park. London. where she made the acquaint-
ance of gentleman forty-four years of age, as
she was seated on one of the seats in the park.
1t was an eventful day for her. She was abso-
lntey tired of the situation she had taken. 1t
was a very handsome man that accosted her,
although not a young one. An acquaintance
sprang up between them. He proposed mar
riage. But before the marriage ceremony had
been gone through with, she was installed as
his mistress in Hans Place, Stone street, Lon
don. During the time that she was confined
to her bedroom by sickness, her lover, finding
her keys, opened her writing desk and discov-
cred some photographs. AS he was examining {
them he found one that was unmistakably his ;
wife He rushed into the bedroom with the
photograph in his hand frantically asked who t
the photograph represented. The girl, who I
was very low at the time, said it was the pic .
ture of her mother, with whom she had quar-
relied. "Then am your father" he exclaim- |
ed He had hitherto disguised his real name t
to her, living with her in the name of Henry s
Hoghton. !,
Shortly after her recovery it was agreed q
that divorce suit should be Immediately
sought for, and Lord Penzance, being acquain- i
ted with the facts, Immediately granted di- t
vorce. Mr.. Lotus having obtained a large ac- t
cession to his fortune provided handsomely for I
his daughter, but the end was not yet. He re- i
solved to have an interview with his wife, who t
was still living in Brussels, and to whom, a
throughhis bankers, he regularly forwarded the
amount. agreed on by the deed of sesaration.
By the death of the Marquis of Ely and his f
he had become worth f15,000 d
per annum, but his wife in Brussels was living
)n what she considered a miserable allowance s
If E4O0 year On his arrival in Brussels hel t
,taid at the Hotel Bellevue, the best hotel in \
Brussels, and addressed letter to his wife, q
Who was living in the Rue de Waterloo, ask h
ng her to consent to an interview Itwas im- p
possible that as an English member of the v
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