Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-18
HE MARRIED IN NEW YAWK.
The Sad Experience Of a Four-named
English Colonel Who Welded an
American Girl.

London Timcs.l
In the Probate, Divorce and Admi-
rally division, before the president
and a special jury, the case Of Norton
against Norton and Grantley was tried
on February rs.
In this case Colonel Charles Grant
ley Campbell Norton prayed for a dis
solution of marriage with his wife,
Catherine Norton, by reason of her
adultery with the correspondent, Lord
Grantley, against whom he claimed
damages. The respondent and CO.
respondent filed answers in denial of
the charges alleged against them, but
the suit was in fact undefended, and
the claim for damage was not pressed.
The petitioner, who is a colonel in
the Ottoman %gendarmie, and a retired
major in the British army, married
the respondent, the daughter of a Mr..
MeVicar, an American gentleman of
good fortune and position, at Calvary
Church, New York, on the I'D Of
June, 1870. They lived for some time
at New York, and then at Montreal,
and on their arrival in England took
up their residence at st. Johns Wood.
Mrs. Norton, who was we'll received
by her husbands relatives and friends,
was of delicate constitution, and in
1873 she went to Switzerland, and
thence to Paris for medical advice.
In the following year she accompanied
her father to New York, and there
gave birth to a son, who died in infan-
cy. During their separation, which,
owing to the petitioners circum-
stances, was more protracted than was
originally intended, an a~ffectionate
correspondence was kept up between
him and the respondent, and on his
appointment, in August, 1877, as a
colonel in the Turkish gendarmie, it
was arranged that she should return
to Europe and rejoin him at Con-
stantinople. In March, 1878, Mrs.
Norton arrived in England she
left for Turkey in May, and reached
Constantinople on the 18th of June.
The petitioner had heard that Lord
Grantley, who is his first cousin, was
also on his way to the East in the same
ship as that in which Mrs. Norton had
taken passage, but he wal not aware
that Lord Grantley had also been her
escort from London to Paris, and
thence to Marseilles, where they en-
barked for Constantinople. A scene
occurred between him and the respOn-
dent on meeting. The day after her
arrival he had to visit an encampment
some miles distant from Constantine
pie. lie reached his home about two
o'clock on the following morning, and
was received by the respondent in a
state Of such confusion that his suspi-
cions became seriously aroused. He
at once charged her with having ad-
mitted Lord Grantley, who was at the
time his guest, into her room, and after
a pause, she confessed hSr guilt, add
ing, " was a virtuous woman a month
ago On the following day she left
with Lord Grantley for Smyrna. She
afterward assumed his name, and on
their return to London, in September,
they took apartments at the Langham
Hotel, and passed as husband and
wife.
The charge alleged in the petition,
in support Of which Colonel Norton
was called rs a witness, was fully es-
tablished. A verdict was found in
favor of the petitioner, and the court
pronounced a decree nisi, with costs