Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-25

The Carnegie case which is now before a
Paris tribunal, and is apparently destined 10
come more fully before the Eugli,h courts,
reads like a sensational novel. One side
represents French diplom' list as paIming off
founding for his deceased wife's child BY
her first husband. The other holds up the
daushte Of Distinguished French general
as disowning her grandson for the purpose of
securing 100000 out OF her daughters
property. The facts not in dispute, says the
London Times, are these: Admiral the Hon.
Swynfsn Thomas Carnegie (he advocates
persist in styling him Lord Carnegie, per-
haps because he WAS once a lord of the adj
miralty) married, in 1858, Louisa Albertina.
daughter of the late Mr.. John Adrian
Hope, lady thirty years his junior, her
mother being a French woman, daugh-
ter of the Marquis Ripp. In 1872
the admiral obtained divorce on
the ground of the wife's adultery with
Baron dc Billing, then attached 10 the
French embassy in London, and more rs-
Gently consul-general in Tunis and Egypt.
The admiral stated there had been ne I.sus
OF the marriage, ami this allegation passed
uncontradicted. The respondent aud CO.
respondent did not, indeed, appear 10 The
suit, and subsequently, intermsrried. For
several years prior 20 the divorce both Mrs.
Carnegie and her mother had spent a great
tptA VI lHtlE tlulc III dFlH, ana on tQH Esd
OF October, 1866, Mrs. Hopes maid look TO
The Founding Hospital an infant which b ad
been discovered, she said, about noon, on The
door mat of the fifth floor at No. 10 Rue de
Psathievre. The child was registered aa
Maurice Alexandra Geniil," parents un.
known and apparently form sht old. Two
days later Mrs. Hope had the child brought
hack. Der daughter, she said, wished to
adept The child. In 1868 the child
was bapiiz-d at The Madel,ine ~
Camille Louis Napoleon de Roland
the date, of birth being entered as
the 14th of August, 1855. In 1888 Nine. de
Billing died, lesviDg all that she could leave
by French law--namely, half her property
to her husband. Ths latter ASST nej the
remaining moie,y to "Camille de Carnegie"
being the sole offspring of the first m srrlsse
Mrs. Hope seeks by the present proceedings
TO have tue secoud marriage declared null,
10 have Camille excluded from the rucces-
zion and to have NJ. de Billing mucted in
100,000f damages for putting forward s spu-
rious child. An affidavit made by Lord
Norlhesk described his stay at the same no.
tel as Mrs. Hope at Zurich, in 1859, when he
noticed little boy With her. she told him
this was her daughters, but not by her hus-
bsnd, and that out of gratitude for the kind
ness of the Carnegie family its
claims would not be enforced unless
he direct line ran out. Lord Northssk
wrote TO his uncle, the admiral, repeating
this conversation, but the latter, notuIta-
standing, declared himself childless at the
time OF the divorces He died intestate, and
in subsequent proceedings before tn. IA sst,r
of the rolls Mrs. Hope volunteered an aft.
davit that her daughter was never pregnant.
In her telegram of congratulations, however,
on the second Wedding, she sent kisses to her
'desr Csmilie," and invoked blessing on
him, Der daughter, and sonin Law, ss "sl
mine" Sac also wrote to the boy as her
grandson; while her daughters letters to
aim were fall Of mingled tenderness and Sc
Verity-his governess having great trouble
with him