The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-27
SICKEIING SENSATION.
LADY COLIN CAMPBELL'S SUIT
FOR DIVORCE
Prom a Diseased and Brutal Husband
Who Beat Her and InOcuiated
Her With His ROttenHess.

LONDON, November 26.-The action
for divorce brou hit by LADY Col
Campbell sgair st hsr hu ba0d, ord
Colin Campbel, fifth sln of the ID Ike
of Argyll, o. me " for hearing today.
The c9urtIo1m was 80 crowded t. a.
the officials had to barIiCade the cor
ridors to prevent the cramming hom
becoming dang rous. Lady Campbell,
her sister and their mother ware the
first persons directly interested in the
act to enter the room. They sat to.
gether beside the plaintiffs director,
Sir Charles Russell, Queens Counsel.
Lord Colin Campbell entered soon
afttrward aud sat neIr the pa ntiff
and at the same table, there beit g in
terposed between the litigants none
but their respective counsel. Mr.. Rus
sell, in opening the ca for Lady
Campbell, said bis client peti,ioued
for divorce from Lord Colin Camp.
bell on the ground oil cruelty and
adultery. The paintiff. the lawyer
continued, was formerly Miss Blood,
and was respectable and stt'active
person. She was sought in marriage
by the defendant, and became en-
gagged to him in 1880. The marriage
was delayed at his lordship's request
until July, 1881, when the ceremony
had been performed. The couple
went away on q melancholy honey
MOON" the groom being attended all
the time by a hospital muse. In fact,
Lord Colin Campbell was attended by
this nuree from the time of bis en-
gagement to Mics Blood down to the
da(e of the termination OF their mPr-
ried life in 1883. He was, declared
the lawyer, never during this entire
period indie pendent of tie nurses care.
This was because his 10 dship was af-
Aicted with a disgraceful disease. OF
course the plaintiff could not have any |
idea of what allied her beirothed hus-
band. The marriage WIS not consum-
mated until October, 1881. The case
was SO very ht rrible, declared the law
yer, that he would refrain as ia: as
possible from abiding to its details
TAT this point the venerable Duke Of |
Argyll, the defendants father, ell tered |
the courtroom and took seat beside |
Lord Colin Campbell, near whom the
Marquis OF Lorne, the defendants ED. |
est brother, had already taken q seat
Continuing, Mr. Russell said that Dr..
Bid, who had attended both Lord and
Lady Campbell, would testify to show
that the lady's life was well nigh I'M
endurable, but that she had tried to
do what she 6eamed duty required of
her, and when she became aware of
her husbands malady desired to re.
main with him as a companion snd |
even to nurse him, in order to hide |
his misery from the world. Firally, |
however, as it would be shown, the
wife found herself absolutely unable |
toeubmit to enforced relationship with |
him, and the told her husband 80 and |
explained her RI ason. He replied that |
she was mistaken about him, and |
added the statement that 1t was
difficult for him to suppose |
that she believed anything like
she susps cted to be true of him. This |
solemn disc aimer by her husband,
under the circumstances, influenced
her. In April, 1888, the plaintiff mis-
carried. Then Lord Campbell sug-
gested that she bad had improper re.
lstions with their physician, DR.. Bird.
When the latter head of this intima'
ton he insisted on severing all Iela-
tionship with the family. Upon this
the defendant withdrew his accu:a-
ton and requested DR.. Bird to at
tend Lady Campbell. Lady Campbell
thence forth refused to permit init
macy on the part Of defendant and he
threatened her with expulsion from
his house II che persisted in her re-
fusal. She did persist aud her hus-
band suspended her money allow
ances. She then spilled for judicial
separation. To her application Lord
Campbell made reply, denying all her
charges. The lady's condition in Sep.
tember, 1883, was 30 serious that
surgical operation was performed upon
her for her relief, and yet. despite he
fact that all this physical misery had
been communicated to her by him,
her husband during the period of her
acute suffering would cruelty account
for her condition by making charges
OF infidelity against her. In Ma CHI,
1884, the plant IF obtained a decree of
separation. She repaired to her faith
er's house at Florence, and returned
TO England in June following. On
her way home she and her party
stopped in Paris, staying at hotel.
While they were at this hotel the h
Duke of Marlborough called upon
them. This visit was made the occs-
sion by her husband for a charge of
adultery. Lord Colin Campbell even
went 30 far as to write to the Paris
authorities requesting them to arrest
his wife and lodge her in the prison
used for the incarceration OF prosti.
tutes. 1t was difficult to believe,
said Mr.. Russell, that any man under
ordinary circum stances could act this
way toward wife already 80 injured;
"but," added the lawyer, "Lord Colin
Campbell's pride had been lowered
into the dust"
Mr.. Russell then detailed the
grounds of the charge Of adultery,
which the plaintiff made against the
defendant. Turning then TO review [
OF the counter charges made by Lord
Colin Campbell against the plaintiff,
that she had been guilty Of criminal
conduct with the Duke OF Marlbor-
ough, Chiet Shaw and others, Mr..
Russell said the lady was in position
to successfully meet all these charges.
The Duke Of Marlborough and Mr..
Shaw were old family friends. Lady
Campbell and Mrs. Shaw had long
been intimate acquaintance. Gen.
Butler, one OF those with whom the
defendant sought to connect the
plaintiff, was old enough to be her
iather, and Mrs. Butler was LADY
CampbelPs dearest friend. DR.. Bird
had sought protection for his charac-
ter by bringing a suit for damages
against Lord Colin Campbell for charg-
ing the plaintiff with criminal init
macy with him. In fact, Lady Camp
bell was able to Teiute every one of
the foul charges brought against her.
The first witness called by the plain
tiff's counsel was Lady Miles. She
testified ss follows: She told Lord [
Campbell In 1889 that Lady Campbell
had resolved to refuse TO live with {
him an his wife, and her reason for !
anch daoiaior hrIt would c0ntinuA tn I