Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-27

Spencer Churchill, commonly called the
Msfchioness Of Blsndford, sought the disco
luton OF her marriage with George Charles
Spencer Churchill, commonly called the
Marquis Of Bandford, on the grsund of
cruelty, desertion and sdultery. The re-
spondent denied the charges.
THE CASE
Mr.. Inderwick IN opening the case for the petit
toner, stated that Lord and Lady Blandford were
married in 1869, and there were four children of
the marriage In the autumn of 1874 lord Bland
and the relations between him and that lady were
a source OF much unhappiness TO Lady Blandford
left his wife. In the month Of June ISIS thew had
some words at the breakfast table about Lady
Aylesiord, and he struck Lady Blsndford on
about Two sue months SGs Of 'na' eonfne M
TACT OF Lady Blandiord having made a state.
ment on the subject to her sister. there would be
no corroboration of Lady Blandfords own evil
dence as 10 that act Of cruelty with abe exception
OF reference made to 1t In correspondence that
passed between the husband and wife after the
birth of the child On the oath of October, 1875
Lady Bland;oid wrote telling him that the infant
qHenee Of the blow he had struck her in June He
re-inelosed her letter. and in one from himself re-
ferred to the blow the historic incident" That
was the only acto cruelty charged in the petition.
A SEPARATION.
Lord Blaudford had left his house and Lady
Blandiord went to Ireland, where her father, the
Duke OF AbercorD, was at the time lord lieutenant,
She stated in her letter that she would be passing
through London in November, and on the is h Of
that month, while she was staying with her chill
dren at the Grosyenor Hotel. Park lane, Lord
Blandford visited her and remained in converse
llon with her about half an hour. He did not,
however, ask to see his children, and for more
than two years after he did net see the child
which was born in the autumn of 1875. In the
told her that he would be hunting in the follow
ing winter AID there was only prob
ability ability v 81 his coming 70 os6dals ne
dren were to reside. she saw nothing of him till
February, 1876, when she was staying with some
nounced to her that he would not live with her
again. He would give her no ason for this deter
mination This was on the 22d, and on the even
ASKING him to reconsider what he had said, and
pointing out the trouble and difficulty in which
he had placed her and her children. In reply
ne wrote her q long letter. in which he said:
u reproach you with nothing, except 1 could
far better than have been" In answer to that
letter she wIote him another, and, after further
communication by letter, they met at the Leather
give up his relations with Lady Aylesford aud to
live again with his wife, and after that interview
Lady Blandford did not see him again. til May,
A PETITION.
Ia the meantime her family had become very
anxious that some proceedings should b. taken
against Lord Blandford, bet Lgdy Blandford chung
would return TO her, and for the sake of her chill
dren she was anxious that there should not be q
divorce. For long time it was impossible to
bring Lord Blandfoid ID any arrangement, and In
February OF the year 1878 petition was presented
by Lady Blandford for Judicial separation. That
petition was not proceeded with, berause, in
March OF the same year, private deed of separa-
ton was executed. But Lady Blsndford did not
regard their s. paration as a final oIe and having
heard that he bad gwen up living with Lady
Aylesford, and that the latter had returned to
her family, she wrote 10 him IRON Biarritz,
On nf Mo gNtFa rQgfi a0 hat
they should have a meeting at Bayonne, and as
sur1ng him that she would forgive and forget his
conduct in the past if he gave up Lady ,Aylesord
altogether and returned To his wife and children.
After written correspondence they met at the
Hotel eslminster. in Paris, on the 18th OF May,
1878 1t was agresd between them that they should
# sumo cohabitstion, but 1t was arranged that the
cohabtaiion should not be resumed until the suit
of Lord Aylesford against his wife for adultery
with Lord Biandford had been Opposed of. That
suit tried before his Idship in July 1875 but
the Queens proctor having interviewed during Its
progress on the glound of Lord Aylesford's own
adultery and of COLLISION and tho-s issues having
been found in the affirmative, Lord Aylestord s
to have committed adultery with Lord Blandierd.
A PHOTOGRAPH.
In the same month there meeting between
Lord and Lady Blaudford at Blenheim. and they
lived together from that time to the 18th of April
1882. While they were living in Cadogan square
Lady BlandfoId removed from sitting-room there
photograph of Lady Aylesford which she found
IN it. Lord Blandford wrots to her in insulting
live with him until April of last year, when it
came TO her knowledge that Lord Blandiord had
taken house called The Chalet at Farpham
Royal, near Slough, for Lord and Lady
Stamford, and that he was furnishing ii.
as she knew that the house was not for
her she spoke TO blm on the subject and he told
her that he had had'a son by Lady Ayles'ord and
had been called upon 10 make q settlement for
that lady and the child. On this Lady Blandford
communicated with her relatives, ana the present
suit was instituted. Though he could not find a
case exactly in point, he would ask his lordship to
decide that the desertion from the ed of February
1876, to the 18Th Of May lS7S-a desertion of more
than two years-slthough conditonally condoned
by Lady Biandford, had been revived by the
adultery committed by the respondent in 1881, and
that The suit Was, therefore, one in which his
lordship ought to grant the prayer OF the petition.
Margaret Me- yer, msid to Lady Ayesiord, was
examiGeo, and stat d that in May, 1881 her lady
ship, with whom Lord BlandfOrd was then living
gave birth at Paris TO child, which registered
es ''Gny BertTam-father aud mother not smed."
Lord Blandford passed as Mr. spencer at that time.
he knew Lord Blendford and Lady Aylesfofd to
live together man and wife.
After hearing the testimony OF Lady Aylesford
and the Marchioness of Lansdowne the Court pro-