The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-23
DIRTY dixie.
The Nasty InquiSitiOn Now
Going On in London.
TOUGH STORIES BEING TOLD.
Plentiful Throwing of the
Foulest Mud"
The crawford-Dnke NastIness.


LONDON. J uly 22.-Captain Foster, as
a witness in the Crawford-Dilke divorce
case to-day, admitted that he had been
guilty of adultery with Mrs. Crawford.
He once quarreled with Sir Charles.
and called him a liar, scouncreI and
coward, because he had secretly at
tempted to sever the relations
between Mrs. Crawford and witness.
He also attempted to thrash Sir
Charles, but desisted at Mrs. Roserson' s
entreaty. Mrs. RogersOn was here re
called. She denied the statements Just
made by Captain Foster. Matthews
then addressed the jury in behalf of the
petitioner, Crawford, whom the lawyer
described as the only one who emerged
clean from amidst this plentiful throw
ing of the foulest. mud. The lawyer
ridiculed bikes reason for remaining
silent during The previous trial. when
there was produced against him strong
damaging evidence of brutal adultery.
Matthews did not miace matters. He
described things in vernacular with
such power as TO intensely excite Dixie,
who became livid with rage, and twice
jumped to his feet and essayea 10 speak.
at which the Judge prevented him from
doing so.
Matthews. continuing. referred with
intense scorn to the "Frenchified Sloan
Street Orgies, and said that no man
who was not so brutalized as to be lost
TO all shame, would act as Sir Charles
had done in them. Where, D." asked
the LAWYER. lis Fanny? Fanny is. &C
cused Of sharing in the orgies. while
this young married woman, who was
betrayed and degraded into them. is
being held up to infamy before the whole
English speaking world. for ministering
to the horrible lust of Dixie. Fanny
has vanished. She dared not appear
before the Jury Commenting upon
the apparent present lack Of sensibility
manif by Mrs. Crawford, Mat
thews said: Doubtless the last spark
OF shame and respect in Mrs. Crawford
expired after the visits she made to
Dilke's house"
The allegation of conspiracy has com
pleteiy failed I ask the jury 70 en-
dorse the judges decree made in the
former trial, ask the Jury = release
Donald Crawford from the tie which
vet binds him 10 life OF shame and
misery. (Applause.J
Sir Walter PhillemOre, on behalf of
the Queens proctor, followed Mat
thews. Sir Walter contended that unless
Donald Crawford proved his wife had
committed adultery with Sir Charles he
was not entitled to a decree of ciYOrce,
from her in the present because COM
mission of adultery with C respondent
was the particular and sole ground on
which the divorce was asked. Crawford
might obtain q divorce ION the grOun
of his wife's adultery with Captain Fos-
ter, as shown in this trial. but he would
have to obtain it BY bringing another
action in which Captain Foster was the
correspondent. Not a single witness
had sworn either seeing Mrs. Crawford
20 in or leave Sir Charles house. al.
though il was always crowded with Of
ficials and friends. Every gentlemanly
feeling had restrained Sir Charles from
going upon the stand and testifylng
during the previous trial. There was a
dark stain upon his life and he was IN
willing to submit himself to the process
of examination which would be
directed towards making the exposure
concerning Mrs. Eusface Smith Mrs.
Crawford's mother. The absence of
Fanny" Sir Walter argued, could be
similarly accounted for. She doubtless
had dark stain upon her life, and it
was enough TO keep her out of the wit
ness box. Concerning Mrs. Crawford,
Sir Walter said the evidence showed
she had been badly reared and that she
was a most bold, abandoned woman.
The jury was possibly invisibly i'm
pressed by Matthews crushing Grafton.
The court adjourned until tomorrow
when Sir Walter will conclude his ad-
dress