Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27
LADY CAMPBEL.L'S DIVORCE
SUIT.
Very Damaging Charges Against
Her Husband, Lord Campbell.
ESPECIAL TO The sKaIIsEL.l

very UhNtbS ri
Her Husband, Lord Campbell.
ESPECIAL TO The skHTIsEL.l
LONDON, Nov. 26.-The action for d.
vorce, brought by Lady Colin Campbell,
against her husband, Lord Colin Camp
bell, fifth son CT the Duke Of Argyle,
came up for hearing to-day. The court
room was so crowded that tho officials had
to barricade the corridors. Lady Camp
bell, her sister, and their mother were
the first persons, directly interested IN the
action, to enter the room. They sat to-
eether beside the plaintiffs solicitor,
Charles Russell. Lord Campbell entered
soon sfterward and sat near the plaintiff
at the same table, there being interposed
bet w the li.igants none but their re-
spective counsels. Russell, in opening
the case for Lady Campbell, said his
client had petitioned for a divorce Of
absolute divorce from Lord Campbell,
on the grounds of cruelty and adultery.
Plaintiff, the lawyer continued, was
formerly Miss Blood, and was q respect
able and attractive person. She was
OuSAb ~ hh6A Ahb ~ saO ~
become engaged to him in 1880. The
marriage was delayed at his lordship's re-
quest until July 81, when the ceremony
was performed. The couple went away
on O melancholy honeymoon" the groom
being attended all the time by q hospital
nurse. In fact, Lord Campbell was at
tended by this nurse from the time OF his
engagement to Miss Blood down to the
date of the termination Of their marriage
life in '83. He was, declared the lawyer,
never during this entire period independ-
emit of g special nurses care. This WAS
because his lordship was afflicted with a
disease. OF course the plaintiff could not
have had any idea Of what allied her
betrothed husband. The marriage was
not c~onsummated till October 81. Tit
case was 30 very horrible, declared the
lawyer, that he would refrain, as far as
possible, from even abiding to its details.
At this point the Duke OF Argyle, de-
PENDANTS father, entered the courtroom
and took a seat beside Lord Colin. near
whom the Marquis Of Lorne, defendants
eldest brother. had already taken a seat.
Continuing, Mr.. Russell said that DIR.
Bird, who had attended both Lord and
Lady Campbell would testify, to show that
the lady's life was we'll nigh uncomfortable,
but that she had tried to do what she
deemed her duty required OF her. When
she became aware OF the nature Of her
husbands malady she decided 10 remain
with him as his companion, and even to
nurse him, in order to hide his misery
from the world. Finally, however, as il
would be shown, the wife found herself
absolutely unable to submit to enforced
relationship with him and told her hus-
baud so, and explained her reason. He
replied that she was mistaken about him,
and added the statement that it was diff
icult for him to suppose that she believed
anything like she suspected to be true Of
him. This solemn disclaimer OF her hus-
band, under the circumstances. influenced
her.
In April '83. plaintiff miscarried. Then
Lord Colin Campbell suggested thai she
had had improper relations with her
physician, DR.. Bird. When the latter
heard this intimation he insisted on sever
ing all relations with the family. Upon
this defendant Withdrew his accusation
and requested DR.. Bird TO attend Lady
Campbell. Lady Campbell thenoeforsh
refused to permit intimacy on the part of
defendant, and he threatened her with
expulsion from his house II she persisted
in her refusal. She did persist, and her
husband suspended her money allow
ances. She then appealed for a judicial
separation. To her application Lord
Colin made q reply denying all her
charges. The lady's condition in Septem-
Der. '83, was so serious that a surgical
operation was performed upon her for
her relief, and yet, despite the fact that
all this physical misery had been
communicated to her by him, her husband,
during the period OF her acutist suffering
would cruelty account for her condition
by making charges Of infdelisy against
her. In March, 1885, plaintiff obtained a
decree OF separation. She repaired to her
fathers at Florence. She returned to
England in June following. On her way
home she and her party stopped in Paris,
staying at a hotel. While they were at
this hotel the Duke OF Marlborough called
upon them. This visit was made the 90.
casion by her husband for a charge Of
adultery. Lord Colin even went SO far as
to write to the Paris authorities, request
ing them to arrest his wife. and lodge her
in the prison used for the incarceration
of prostitutes. 1t was diff cult to believe,
said Russell, that any man OF ordinary In
stincts could act in this way toward a wife
already so injured; but, added the lawyer,
Lord Colin O~ampbell's pride had been
lowered into the dust. Russell then de-
tailed the grounds OF the charge if adultery
which plaintiff made against defendant,
and turning to them TO review said, Of the
counter charges made by Lord Colin
against plaintiff. that if she had been guilty
of criminal conduct with the Duke of
Marlborough, Chief Shaw and others,
Russell said the lady was in a position TO
successfully meet ell of these charges.
A Priest Sued.