Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-01
TRIES IT AGAIN.
The Rev. Newman Hall Again Venturel
Into MatrimOny.

Into MatrfmOny.
Rev. Newman Hall, D. d., the noted
Congregational pulpit orator of London,
who, in August of last year, obtained a
divorce from his wife, married on Mon
day last the lady to whom he admitted to
the court, during the progress of the trial,
he had communicated his intention to
marry in the event of the success of the
suit against his wife. The Rev. Newman
Hall first began an action for a divorce
from his former wife in 1873, but abandon
ed the proceedings because he was inform
ed by his legal advisers that he had no
legal certainty of success, and also because
he did not wish to imperil, by the scandal,
the efforts which he was then making
to raise money to build his new
church. Last year, however, he re-
newed his former action, and after
a trial which lasted six days, the jury on
the Sth of August gave a prompt verdict
in his favor. He had been married thirty
three years, but had long found it impos-
sible to live with his wife, who had vir-
tually separated herself from him at an
early date, and had abruptly quilted his
home as far back as 1860. She was shown
on the trial to be a woman whose tastes
were at marked variance with his own.
Although woman of culture, she greatly
preferred the company and attentions
of youth named Richardson, livery
stable keeper, to those of her brilliant
and popular husband she was fond of
thoroughbred horses, and liked to follow
the hounds; she was addicted to sitting
up late in the kitchen with male guests
who smoked into the small hours, and even
was not averse to the consumption of the
weed herself when Richardson took GIN
and-water after midnight by the kitchen
fire, she also slipped of the compound, and
when preparing to go out riding with Rich
ardson as her attendant, she was not averse
to changing her habit in a dressing room
which opened to Richardson s.bcd-r room. In
a twenty-eight page letter produced on the
trial, she secuted as ridiculous the notion
of her husband that it was not proper
for her to enjoy little smoking in
her kitchen, where for fourteen
years she had spent SO many happy
hours ~ All this she pretended to regard as
innocent, and declared that her friendship
for Richardson, although warm, was pure
from first to last. The evidence Of Mrs.
Halls criminal instimacy with Richardson
was, however, too direct and circumstan-
tial to admit Of serious question, and the
fury did not hesitate in decreeing a divorce
Mrs. Hall had brought counter-charge of
undue familiarity between Mr. Hall and
Miss Mary Wyatt, member of Mr..
Halls church. whom she accused of being
the cause ofall the trouble between herself
and her husband. On her cross-examina-
ton, Mrs. Hall declared that the proceed
ings for divorce were instituted simply to
give Mr.. Hall a chance to marry Miss
Wyatt, who had "made her home a
hell on earth" But these grave counter
charges were not pressed by Mrs. Halls
counsel, no witnesses were called to prove
them, and they were even withdrawn be-
fore the conclusion of the case. Under the
English law, Mr.. Hall was at liberty to
remarry six months after the divorce was
decreed, but the good parsoD permitted
nearly two months more to elapse before
he welded Miss Mary Wyatt. The mar
riage has been anticipated from the first
Upon cross-examination during the trial
of the divorce suit last August, Mr.. Hall,
on being closely pressed, admitted that if a
divorce were granted, he might marry
again; and then it was literally forced
from him that he chad q person in his
eye" whom he intended to marry, and that
he had already communicated his feelings
to that person.