The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-01-22
Madame Lmcca--Her Matrimonial
Troubles.

The matrimonial infeiicities of Madame
Pauline Luccs, the singer, are not done with
yet. The facts may he summed up, in brief.
Mime. Lucca, as she il popularity known,
was married On November %, 1865, in Ber-
daughter il the fruit Of the marriage. In
August, 1872, she came to this country,
bringing her daughter with her. Within a
few months after her arrival she instituted
proceedings here for divorce, and on the
I'd of June last Judge Fancher granted her
decree Of divorce, the stipulation in the
decree being that she should retain custody
Of her child, that che should be allowed to
remarry, but that her divorced husband
could not marry again until after her death.
Two days after obtaining the divorce she was
married to Emil Won Wallhoffen. OF the
proceedings for divorce Baron Won Rhaden,
who was still in Berlin, claimed to he ignor.
ant until he saw paragraph in a newspaper
announcing the fact. On this side, applica-
ton was made TO set aside the decree, and
this Judge Fancher refused to do. An
appeal was accordingly taken to the general
term from the order made on his appli-
cation, and it was taken upon this
appeal, as also cross appeal taken
by tie plaintiff, that Friday argument
took place. Her story il, that afte-
April, 1870, they lived separate by mutual
consent, a step which che alledges in her affir
dayit che was obliged to take by reason OF
his adulteries and extravsgant habits in con-
stantly taking and spending her money in
gambling and riOtous living. lie declares,
however, that they lived harmoniously TO-
yVoII L.
ing wounded at the battle of st. Privat, on
August Is, 1870, became an inmate of their
house. He says he was wounded himself in
the same battle, but too dangerously to be
taken home till some time afterwards, when
he found there, to hi. surprise, Won Wall
bofien. He denies in substance all the ale
CATIONS against him, and charges all the
trouble to the rival for his wife's affections.
The only witness besides Nine. Lucca in the
divorce proceedings was Conrad Kessler.
He tes.ifes to the Baron's illicit intimacy
with an actress at enc of the
Berlin theatres, to their frequent
riding and driving in public,
to his sending her bouquets. and on one &C.
casion Christmas tree costing fifty Ihalerr.
He winds up his testimony BY characterizing
the Baron az a man Of very dissipated habits
ss drinking largely. as given to high playing
in Berlin clubs, and "a making no secret of
his connection with the actress above referred
to. The argument was of a peculiar techni-
cal character, and like all such arguments,
peculiarly dull and undressing. These
technicalities had reference mainly to irreg-
ularities Of procedure, but it was insisted on
her side that there were none Of them juris-
diciional, and did not furnish any ground
for setting aside the decree OF divorce. A
strong point also urged in Nine. Lucca's be-
half was under the code il a judgement Of
divorce sgsinst non resident be regularly
obtained. there is nc power to open it
a. a matter Of favor. On the other
hand, il was insisted that the court below
should have vacated the judgment, because
it never obtained jurisdiction over the defen-
dant, because the order Of reference was pre-
maturely made, and that the court below
erred in refusing to vacate the Judgment,
because there was no evidence whatever pro-
duced to the court on which it could lawfully
have been reviewed. The. United States Cir
cult Court, before which the proceedings
took place, reserved its decision. There is
no dispute, we believe, in well-informed cir
cles, that Baron Won Rhaden, Luccs's first
husband, forfeited all marital rights by his
repeated adUltpriea