, 1876-10-28
Vic. WOohhuII's Divorce.


Vic. WOohhuII's Divorce.
BRooKLYN, Sept l0.-YesterdNy morn
ing the report Of the referee in the suit
Of absolute divorce of Victoria G. Wood.
hull against her husband, Col James II.
Blood, was presented to Justice Dykman
tor confirmation.
The plaintiff in the proceeding is
known to the world as Victoria c. Wood
hull. She is woman OF wide notericty
as an cXpotent oi spirituaiSm, Il trance
medium, a lecturer on the rights Of won.
en- and an advocate Of free love. She
figured prominently in the great scandal,
and is supposed to he the first who re-
fcrred in any way to the scandal through
the public press. Mr.. Theodore Tilton
was for years on intimate terms with
Mrs. Woodhul, and 1871 wrote and pub
lishcd her life in No. 3 of the GolIea
age IractS series.
Victoria Catlin Woodruff was born in
Homer, Ohio, ON September 81 1880,
and was the seventh of ten children OF
RoXana and Buckham ClOtln, She was
born in the year that Queen Victoria rs.
ccnded the British throne, and hence her
first name. According to Mr.. Tlton, an
gels have been her constant companions
from early childhood, and she goes and
comes at their behest, They absolutely
control her brain and pen, and she spends
a part OF nearly eyey day of her life in
trance. The spirit which chiefly intluen-
ces her is that Of old Demosthenes, and
Mr.. Tlton says that Demosthenes him
self could hardly excel the fierce light
and heat of some OF the sentences which
her biographer has heard from her in
her glowing hours.
vICToRIA's FIRST MARRIAGE.
When very young, probably not more
than fifteen, Victoria Clahin was married
to DR.. Woodruff. He was, according to
Mrs. Woodhull's own account, profit
gate and debaucher, and having born
him several children and endured an
amount ofconjugal wretchedness which
very few women, happily, are called to
undergo, she obtained divorce from
him.
Soon after Mrs. Woodhun's divorce
from DIR, Woodruff, she married Col.
James II. Blood, the present defendant
Of this marriage, Mr.. Tilton says it is safe
to say that it was made in heaven, de
creed by the selfsame spirit whom Vlcto-
ria is ever ready to follow.
Col. Blood was commander of the
Sixth Missouri, and at the close of the
war was elected City Auditor of St.
Louis. He was President of the Society
of Spiritualists in that city, and had, like
Victoria, been legally separated from his
mate. One day Colonel Blood called on
Mrs. Woodruff whom he had never seen,
to consult her as Spiritualist physician.
He was greatly startled to see her pass
into trance, during which she announc-
ed, unconciously to herself, that Colonel
Blood's future destiny was to be linked
to hers in marriage. Then, by their mu
tual arrangement, they were betrothed by
the power Of the air. They were mar
ried, but afterward by mutual consent
they annuled the legal tie, and lived to-
gether on free love basis.
COLONEL BLOOD.
In the light of the present divorce pro.
ceedings, 1t is very pleasing to know that
according to Mr., Tilton, Colonel Blood
is man of philosophical and reflective
turn of mind, q recluse from society and
an expectant believer in u stupenduous
destiny for Victoria c.: Woodruff. Mr..
Tilton says; He is modest and seques.