The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-10
A ROMANCE IN A DITORcE coUhT'
A Member Of tho English Nobility
Separates from his Wife and Aieei'
wards Falls in Love with his Dsugh-
ter.

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wards Falls in Love with his Dsugh'
ter.
from the Toronto LEADER
A most extraordinary case has ~recentl!
haan heard In the Court Of Divorce In LondoI
before Lord P~enzancs, the Judge Of the court
Ths Hon. Henry LOTUS, the nephew Of th'
MaronIsi of Ely, has had his domestic circum
stances revealed to the world, and 1t would
have been we'll for him and his own family !
he had 'concealed his sorrows in his OWL
breast.
In 1851 Henry Lotus held q commission al
lieutenant In her Majesty's Life Guards, ant
was allowed by his uncle, the Marquis, fSW
per annum. He was very handsome, aoou
Six feet high, with large blue eyes, BLACK eye
brows, and was an exceedingly Well-oln,
man. At q ball given at Lady Paimerston'
he became acquainted with 9 Miss Adelint
Montgomery, whose father had been chief at
tache TO the British Embassy In Paris. Aftel
few, months, acquaintance they were mar
.rIed and MI. LOTUS sold his commission ano
went TO reside In Brussels, his income oei9g
too small to enable him to live IN England 10
the style to which he had been accustomeo
prior to his marriage.
LIFE IN BRUSSELS.
About fourteen months after his marriage,
his wife. gave birth to q beautiful cniio, VINO
mas nhristened Emmeline Montgomery. they
had q handsome house on the Rue Madeline,
and mixed In the frat circles OF society. They
omen dined with the King and Queen OF the
BeleianB at the palace OF the King. They De-
came acquainted with q Baron Steiner, q
Young and handsome Belgian, who wrote
beautiful love %sonnets, and was at the same
time an accomplished mnslclan; nj. Loltns
occasionally visited Paris, sometimes
made short visits to London. Baron Steiner
was. ike Dean Swlft, Q great admlrer OF female
beauty: bat only In the abstract. Mrs. LOTUS
Was q handsome woman, q fair representative
of the highest style Of female beauty, and In
Baron .Stelner's leisure hours, and they were
MANY he composed some very besuilfal SON.
nets addressed to the beauty ne 90 muca aa'
mired. He wrote them partly Tor amusement,
and partly to CRAFTY the vanity OF Mrs. Lotus.
I Q 4l.& DUEL.
In August, 1889, Mr.. Lotus, afler o shor:
EXCURSION 10 Paris, returned unexpectedly to
Rrrssels, and he found the Baron Steiner In
thetdrawing room with his vile. The Baron
Hps half intoxicated, and under the influence
OF the champagne he had been Imbibing, he
showed Mr.. Lotus the last sonnet he had ad,
dressed to his wife. 1t was an impassloned
sonnet, and Lotus tore 1t to! pieces, and kick-
al S,einer ont of the house. The baron, stuDg
bys the iindiguity, challenged Mr.. Lotus to
mortal combat. Mr.. Lotus accepted the chsl-
lenpe-seconds were obtained, and In the
suburbs OF, Matines, which ia eituated q few
miles from Brussels, they met. They used
pistols. Steiner was shot through the brain,
and lay dead on the field.
Mr.. LOTUS returned with his seconds 70
Brussels. He Informed his wife OF the result
of the duel. She heard of the Baron's death
with composure, but she burst into q flood OF
tears. In O defiant tone she said to her hus'
band, sit is better we part"
DIVORCED.
Added Of separation was drawn up, and
Mr. LOTUS returned to London. Mrs. Lotus
remained in Brussels, gave up the house they
had occupied, but hired q less expensive
house, and her daughter Emmeline was her
especial care. As the mother grew In years
shs became ~ t ,ncap peSss,s OF o sSs SnF.sd he q, P SsE
daughter, q carving knife, which fortunately
missed her. When Emmeline Lotus arrived
as eighteen years OF age she left her homo,
and proceeding by train to Ostend, took the
steamer for Dover, and three hours subse.
duently was alone In the great City OF London.
Here she Obtained g sltuation as 3 goVerness.
In september, 1870, she was walking In Re
GENTS Park, London, where che made the 40.
qu~aintance!of q gentleman forty.four years OF
q "a she was seated on one of the iron
seats In the park! Il BiT
MARRYING BIS OWN DAUGHTER.
SItSWas an .eyenttul day fol. her. She was
sbabjnf6ly tired OF the situation she had taken.
Is was a-very handsome man that accosted
her, though not atyoung one. He proposed
marriage. But, before the ceremony had
been. performed, 3er lover, finding her
keys, opened her writing desk and discovered
some Photographic. As he was examining
. sho,, ho.A{soouaroa nna that waa unmIatQkn.
bly, the photograph Of his wife. He rushed
into the bedroom with this photograph In his
hand, and frantically inquired who it repre-
scented. The girl, who was very low at the
time, said 1t was the picture of her mother,
with whom she;had7 quarrelled. ''Then ! am
your father he exclaimed. He had hitherto
disguised his real name to her, living with her
IN ihe name or Henry Honghton.
~ gf ANOTHER DIVORCE.
Shortly after her recovery It was agreed that
q divorce cult should be Immediately sought
the facts, granted one. Mr.. Loftus having OBJ
tained o large accession to bis fortune. provi-
ded handsomely for his daughter. But the
end; was not yet. he resolved to have an IN.
terview with Ills wife, who was still 10 Brus.
sells, and to whom, through his bankers, he
regularly forwarded the amount agreed on 10
the deed of separation. By the death Of the
TarouIs of Ely and his grandmother he had
become worth $4,000 a year, but his wife was
living In Brussels on what she considered q
miserable allowance of f40O Q year.
Onsbis arrival In Brussels he stayed at thf
Hotel RelleYna, the best hotel 10 Brussels. ant
addressed letter 10 his wife, who was living
In the Rue de Waterloo, asking her to consent
to ar, Interview. It was impossible that as al
English member of sristocracy she could OBJ
ject to grant an Interview with her husband
although she had been separated for go many
years. He told her the sequel of his life afleI
he had separated from her. MIR. LoftuB's wife
listened to the history with patience as It was
told to her BY her husband.
q FIRST WIFE TRANSLATED.
As Lotus was leaving, having stated thai
this unfortunate daughter vas well provided
for, and drawing in strong language y picture
of his misery, his wife asked him If he would
live again with her as her. husband. Mr.
LOTUS told her 1t was impossible under the
circumstances, There. was NO possibility o.
bridging over the: chasm, and their misery
they must both carry to the grave. Mrs. Loft
ma did not believe this. and as Mr. Lotus hat
no evidence against his wife In reference Il
her IMPROPER intrlgues With the Baron Steiner
she commenced q suit against the Hon. Mr.
Ioftns; for a,reslitntlon Of coDjugal rights;ant
under the peculiar circumstances OF the case
seeing that Mrs. Lotus had committed ~
crime OF which the Divorce Court could taxi
cogul1anCe, Baron, PenZance had no alterna
tive hut to relngtate Mrs. LOTUS In her 0rlgl