Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-25

Adventures Of q Founding and Of Ad.
miral Carnegie's Divorced Wife.

The Carnegie case, which is now before q
Paris tribunal, and is apparently destined to
come more fully before the English courts, reads
like sensational novel One side represents q
French diplOmatist as palming of Q founding
for his deceased wifes child by her first husband.
The other holds up the daughter of a distin-
guished French general as dlsownlng her grand
son for the purpose Of securing $50 ,OOOf. out OF
her daughters property. The facts not In dis
pute, says the London Times are these: Admit
raj the Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnegie {the ad-
vocates persist IN styling him Lord Carnegie,
perhaps because he was once a Lord Of the Ad-
miralty) married, in 1853, Louisa Albertina,
daughter OF the late Mr.. John Adrian Hope, q
lady thirty years his junior, her mother being a
French woman, daughter Of the Marquis Rapp.
lp 1872 tine Admiral obtained divorce on the
ground OF the wfes adultery with Baron de
Billing, then attached to tho French Embassy
IN London, and more recently Consul General In
Tunis and Egypt. The Admiral stated that there
had been no issue of the marriage, and this ALE
CATION passed uncontradicted. The respondent
and correspondent did not, indeed. appear In
the suit, and subsequently intermarried.
For several years prior to the divorce both
Mrs. Carnegie and her mother had spent great
part OF their time in Paris, and on the 23d of
October, 1866, Mrs. Hopes maid took to the
Founding Hospital an infant which had been
discovered, she said. about noon on the door
mat of the fifth floor at No. 10 Rue de Pen
thievre. The child was registered as Maurice
Alexandra Gentil," parents unknown, and APP
parently fortnight old. Two days later Mrs.
Hope had the child brought back. Her daugh-
ter, she said. wished to adopt child. In 1868
the child was baptized at the Madeleine as Ca
mile Louis Napoleon de Roland. the date of
birth being entered as the 14th of August, 1866.
In 1888 Nine. de Billing died. leaving all that
she could leave by French law-viz., half her
the reqpining moiety to Camille de Carne-
gle, being the sole offspring of the first mar
rage Mrs. Hope seeks by the present proceed
ings to have the second marriage declared null
to have Camille excluded from the succession,
and to have NJ. de Billing muicted in 100. 0O0f
damages tor putting forward a spurious child.
An affidavit made by Lord NOrthesk described
his stay at the same hotel as Mrs. Hope at Zu-
rich in 1860, when he noticed little boy with
her. She told him this was her daughters, but
not by her husband, and that out OF gratitude
for the kindness Of the Carnegie family its claim
would not be enforced unless the direct line
ran out. Lord NOrthesk wrote to his uncle, the
admiral, repeating this conversation, but the
latter. Notwithstanding declared himself child
less at the time of the divorce. He died intes-
tate, and in subsequent proceedings before the
Master of the Rolls Mrs. Hope volunteered an
affidavit that her daughter was never pregnant
In her telegram of congratulations. however, on
the second wedding, she sent kisses to her
dear Camille" and invoked a blessing on him.
her daughter. and sOn-in-laW. as ''all mine"
She also wrote to the boy as her grandson
while her daughters letters to him were full of
mingled tenderness and severity--fis goyerness
having great trouble with him.