Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-20
From the New York world.l
pprMA DONNA IN COURT.
lin. Iucca's Divoce Suit-Baron Won
phade's side Of the Story.

r.o divorce suit of Mime. Lucca. the
Ill III Inown prima donna, was before
,'n Smmeme Court, General Term, We
ne si,v with Judge Davis, Daniels, anu
nl":hne & ON the bench. The appeal
" nv both parties from an order
@,,ci by Judge Fancher opening the
.,%"ment of divorce, and allowing the
,snd.nt 10 answer. Maria Pauline
y le,e ne.a was married to Adolph Won
Rh.de in Berlin, Prussia, on the 18th
# November, lSi5. They nave ono
.h;ld. now four years old. She COM
"erced an acton for divorce from him
IN tLis city in March last, and the sum-
mons and complaint were served by
,,,I,Ii,ation. he being in Berlin. She
iisyed that since September, 1872, she
..J heen All inhabitant Of this state;
rnd charged her husband with marital
,nc,;thf,Ine>s. There seems to have
Inon a number of technical faults. BY
mistake in making up the order of pub
I,nti, ma Marine Court summons was
,tached to the order of publication re-
nnirinp the defendant to answer in six
laws instead OF twenty days as it should
hav. been. This, however, was cor
r~.ted in the actual publication. The
brdcr directed copy to be mailed to
khe defendant at Berlin, Prussia. II"
secure its reaching him the clerk put
bn the envelope the husbands club.
1hc order of reference was Obtained
dav before the time for Won Rhade
ko answer had expired, and last of all,
Skhe single witness who testified to Won
*Rhade's infidelity said that 1t hap
heDed after the suit had been begun.
Nevertheless, a report was given in
lmcas favor, and she obtained
decree of divorce June 2, 1878.
bn June 1873. she mar
fied Emil Won Wallhotfen. The de-
endant shortly after applied to the
court to open the default for the
ALLEGED irregularities in its conduct. In
Dis petition he SAYS that he is b years
old; that until the Summer of 1872
}limsclf and wife lived together, he, on
bis part, diScharginy all the duties and
|obIi. cations OF good husband, kindly
nSnw and treating his wife; nor did she
give him eau .e to think that she was
in any way di>plca>ed or dissatisfied
aln.i The Fall of 1870. Then there was
change in her feelings aud actions
towards him, and she became fOrEetitil
*Of her duties as u wife and m0tlie from
&the time tla; one Emil Won WallhOiicn
WAS introduced in his family, in Sep
Htember. 1870. Wallhotfen remained
there until April, 1871, being treated
there for his wounds received ut the
battle of st. Privat on the 18th OF Au-
gust. Won Rhade was himself like
wlse seriously wounded in battle two
iayS previously, and was not aware
lhat Wallhotien had been removed to
bis house till he found him there when
hc state of his wounds permitted his
Femoval to his home. Won Rhadc
s'ae> further that his wife, unbeknown
% llln and against her agreement with
Iie director of the Royal Ol era in Bcr-
IN, where she was engaged, lett for the
MED States. lie first learned of the
al'orce through the public journals,
,louSh he is "not prepared to believe
nat such can well lie the case"
His motion was heard before Judge
faiicher, with IA counter motion by the
alh'iff for amendments of the record
cure the Irregularities. Judge Fan
.her heid the defects to be merely
irregularities, and granted an order to
mend the record, but refused to vacate
nc Judgment; yet permitte him to
"' IN an ans, cr if he would swear to
Y. FROM this both parties appealed,
FIcn being UiSSati >fiaI