St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-18
ooRREspoNDrNoE.By CABLE.
Further Gossip -ibout Mrs. Lan0fry's
RnsBord Marriage to Fred GebHard

Further Gossip Abomt Mrs. Lan0try's
Rumord Marriage to Fred GebIard.
A New York special to Chicago papers gives
the following about the much discussed mar
rage of Freddie Gerhard and Mrs. Langtry:
''The often rumorel Langtry-Gebhard mar
rage, it is said is likely to take some definite
shape when the Jersey beauty returns to this
country. Before another year is over Mrs.
Langtry will be Mrs. Gebhar;l. This Is
now about certain. The two parties most in
| terested have been within the last week or
ten days sending each cable dispatches of
| fifty, 100, and 200 words at a time. Mr..
Gebhard has been the most active in this ex
pensive style of epistolary communication.
Private letters from England have recently
been received in this city which in large
part explain the peculiar condition of affairs
which prevents the immediate qualification
OF the hopes of the fair English woman. The
point of effective force is in short Mr..
Langtry. He parted from his wife some
three years ago or more, and since that time
has gone his way unimpeded, and so has she.
Mrs. Langtry has had no communication
| with him whatever the last year. Through
friend he was approached on the subject of
divorce, as she did not dare to make the pro-
position directly.
Mr.. Langtry said very coolly: Certain
| ly; let there be a divorce. But | must be
the plaintiff" 1t was explained to him how
this would be next to i'm possible to accom-
plish. His wife would never consent to act
in the position of defendant in such suit,
| for she would have to bear all the odum.
''Then let her remain married till my DEATH
said Mr.. Langtry, land he added, 'SI am u
pretty healthy man." Latterly however,
Mr.. Langtry has come to believe that per-
haps they might better be separated. a
friend of hers has been working the matter
up in her behalf. When the friend said that
he ought to consent to the divorce being
got against him instead of against her. he
said that he was not averse to it. He would
not oppose any action that she should bring,
if il were done decently. The only question
in his mind was where the suit should be
brought. He understood that in somc Amer
divorce, aud perhaps it would be better TO
bring the action there, and he would not ap-
| pear. This, it is said is the cause of the sud-
den cable 'correspon dence between Mrs.
Langtry and Mr.. Gebhard. He is getting
the information necessary in the matter,
andis furnishing it by cable, so as to save
delay. 1t is not unlikely that they WILL after
all appeal to the law of England, where act
ually the divorce laws are easier than here.
The new French law has been discussed, and
the law of Holland, too, of which Mr.. Lang
tly is resident. But even there it would
need that the wife go and remain some time
if she would be the one to bring the case.
Thus they are in sore perplexity, and even
now that Mr.. Lsngtry's consent has been OBJ
tanned they are as far from the goal as ever.
The reason for Mr.. Langtry's consent is said
to be that he, too, is DESTROYS of marrying
and that he is tired of single wretchedness
that offers no pensation.