Omaha daily bee., 1886-12-12
SHE HELD HER OWN.
Cross Examination Fails to Injure
Her Statements.

tCopHiglt 1886 bv James Gordon Bennonl
LONDON, Dec. IL New York Herald
Cable-Special to the BEEl-The Campbell
case is still absorbing. To give an idea of
the extent to which this is true / count up
already twenty-six columns of the much
emasculated report of the Times ;.forty three
of the Telegraph of the Daily News and
of the Standard; seventy-fo of the Chron-
icle and ninety-seven of the Evening News
Lady Colin to-day withstOod a very inge-
niously conceived cross-examination very
well. Her manner is ready, modest, courte-
GUS and self-reliant She sometimes fenced
interrOgations, yet without losing her grip of
the meaning conveyed in the questions. For
instance, being asked: what have you
done with all those Blandford letters?" she
said: "Please withdraw the word all and
its emphasis" Council then said: "Cer
tainly; | will substitute any"
Again, having said that she omitted, on the
occasion of the previous trial in Camera
about the disease question, much relating to
Lord Colin in order to spare him, counsel de-
manded: "Do you mean that this sparing
was on your mind then|'
But she replied, without any show of pert
ness: II can only answer for what testified ;
not for what was on my mind"
q. Is DR.. Bird, who examined you. a
younger man than Dr. Clayton, to whom you
refused examinations
A. am sure | don't know, but DIR. Bird
looks as old.
Counsel here scored a point with some of
the jurors.
O. Did you know that Lord Blandford had
seduced Lady Aylesford.
A. l knew that.
O. Did that make any difference in the
degree of the intimacy that existed between
you?
A. Certainly not.
O. Were you aware that Lord Blandford
was divorced from his wife OH the ground OF
adultery and desertion?
A. did not ask OH what grounds but
heard he was divorced and that Lady Bland
ford divorced him.
Q. Was your acquaintance interrupted
owing to this incident in the life of Lord
Blandford?
A. / can't say it was interrupted owing tc
that incident.
Q. Then, may | take it that the incident
did not interrupt your social acquaintance?
A. 1t did not.
Counsel further scored in making he
follow Lord Collins lead in swear
ing an affidavit without reading it
and in finding an importan
entry in her diary evidently made will
fresher ink and with different pen froD
those OF the entries used on the same page.
In the main, however, the legal spectator!
| agreed that her direct evidence had not beer
| injured by the crOss-eXamination. This was
| conducted by young Frank Lockwood, til,
| member for York, a sort of masher, famous
in breach of promise cases, and dangerous
| crOss-eXamner of women because of his Gun
ningly courteous, suave and artful skippinl
| from subject to subject only to return t
| topics past so as to distract feminine atten
| ton.
Justice Butte is evidently intending t.
make great use, one way or another. of he
daries. l observed that he made penci
marks literally throughout the pages. Th
| point of Lord Collins counsel is that the en-
tries have been cooked to meet the evidence
| while Lady Collins Q. C's claim that to b.
| legitimate cOrroboration of her scores of con
tradictions that, If believed entirely upse
| the scandal coach.