The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-11-03
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LONDON, Ocso Ger 81. - Lady Gouch, wife
OF Sir Francis Gooch, well known In cons
nects0n with her attempt TO palm 0ff a spu.
rious chitd on her husband, is dena. Thus
ends the strange history which startled
LONDON d year ago. Lady Gooth has not.
died implied. Ever since the Decembef
morning when che recorder OF London SAID
that the law did not care to deal with l,er
uffence, aud the grand Jury refused 10 lind
a true bin against her, public opihion has
been veering In her favor, and, while 1t
could not Justify, has yet declined to con.
denln. English society has come to be-
;ieye that she was more sinned against than
SHINING. To the foreigner the case was
mainly interesting for the tight IL threw on
the decadence of q very old English family.
The Gooches were not ennobled, but for
centuries they had been lords OF Suffolk
domain. They had given judges to the
bench, generals TO the army, aud bishops
to The church. Their founder had in 1927
been created ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of Vir-
ginia, and it is said OF him that neither in
habitants nor merchants ever complained
OF bis administration. Sir Francis, the
eighth baronet, succeeded to the title ana
estates when he was barely OF age. His
brother had suddenly died, leaving young
widow, and from the position OF aspenni.
less younger son he became st a bound
owner of Benacren Hall and magnificent
rent-roll. His first step was to marry Miss
A unle Sutherland. to whom he had for a
year been engaged. She was country
xqutre's daughter, pretty md lovabIe.th
Forawhile all was happiness. Sir Francis
bought his younger brother commission,
took his sisters and mother 10 live at the
Hall. and in the summer OF 1873 Lady Gooch
gave birth 10 sou. On the same day Lady
Eleanor, the Gowager, married again. Then
the heir died, and the new-found happiness
gradually melted away. The young baro-
net. believing that no other heir could be
born to him, estranged himself from his
wife. ~
"soneh or other" said her advocate
at the trial, "her huS bands love was gone
gone with the little child that was then laid
in Its grave, She became possessed Of one
idea. Night and day she cherished one
dream. II she had another child to take to
lbim-auotber child who she could persuade
| him was his own-tben she might win back
| the love that was lost" Sir Francis went
of, for months on yachting expeditions !;
MS SlSteIS Udu lIsIlHut lazy I'Soho1t WIN
was now once more regarded as his heiresS,
| treat ed her with undsguised bitterness, and
she was left alone in the Hall with certain
Miss Garrod, an elderly companioh. not un-
like Miss Briggs, in s'Vanity Fair"
In the morbid mood thus engendered she
first formed the idea OF getting child from
the Founding Hospital She made little
secret of her Intention She asked the aid
Of the meek Miss Garrod, of The hospital
matrons, OF various doctors at various sea-
side resorts, and when. they all refused,
hired the services OF compassionate nurse,
who conveyed the baby at night into the
Grosyenor Hotel. ".&
Next morning the deception was discov-
cred, and her husband, burning to ayeuge
his wounded family honor and vindicate
| the claims OF Lady Eleanor. summoned his
| haIf-crazy wife into police court. Every
| body will remember the rest. The mags-
trate, feeling that his court was not Il tri-
| bun;.l for the adjustment OF private rights,
sent the case for trial, and the grand jury
| as eXpediiously threw it out. But Lady
Gooch's life was ruined beyond redemp-
| ton, and in dying she has made the only
expiation in her power.-Neao Tort Her.
! AID.