St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-21
The Jurymen in the Holly Contested Lady
Colin Campbell Divorce Case Reach
A Verdict.
They Decide That Neither the Plaintiff
Nor Defendant Was Guilty Of
Adultery,
for Not Appearing as
Witness,
The Finding Regarded as the Only
One Possible, But Yet
Unsatisfactory.

concluded his argument for Lady Colin
Campbell in her divorce suit against heI
husband to-day. and the judge proceeded
at once to sum up the case for the jury.
He said Lord Colin Campbell denied his
wite's charges of infdelity, which depended
chiefly on the testimony of Lady Miles.
Whatever might be said against Lady Miles
by the defense, it must be admitted that
she was, until lately, Lord Collins friend;
that she had done all in her power to dis
courage the bringing of the action against
him, and that she only took Lady Collins
part when she became convinced that I'M
just charges were to be brought against that
lady. The testimony given by the doctors
that Mary Watson was virgo intacta did not
negative the testimony given by Lady Miles
that she saw Lord Colin and the girl in such
a position as to warrant the belief that the
pair were guilty. Suspicion, however, the
judge said, was insufficient. If adultery
were not sworn as a fact the jury wera
bound to find Lord Colin was innocent. At
the last trial in which Lady Colin secured
decree of separation it was shown that Lord
Colin had
GIVEN PLAINTIFF A DISEASE
in such manner as to amount to the cruelty
which she alleged as the basis of her petit
the evidence against Lady Colin depended
On what the family servants said. This
should be received with suspicion. In re-
gard to the Purtieet incident, the judge said
there were so many important examples of
mistaken identity that the jury would be
compelled to carefully consider whether
sufficient evidence had been adduced to re-
liably establish the statement that the lady
who was there with the Duke of Marl-
borough was Lady Colin Campbell. If
Neptune Blood's testimony was true. that
he saw Lady Colin on that day at home,
then the Purtieet story was demolished.
Referring to the allegations concerning
Lady Collins conduct at Leigh court, the
judge said they all depended again ON
stories told by servants, and principally on
those told by Rose Baer. Her own fellows
describe her as
A CHATTERER,
and she has contradicted herself, and other
witnesses have contradicted her on inn
portant points, She said that the Duke of
Marlborough and Lady Colin occupied the
same apartment for an entire week at
Leigh Court, and afterwards testified that
the Duke of Marlborough was at Leigh
Court only two nights. The judge de-
clared he believed Rose Baer had invented
| the story about Lady Colin and the Duke
| OF Marlborough sitting together like lovers
| on bench in the PaddingtOn station.
| Lord Collins conduct towards his wife
while she was in Paris, on the occasion
| when he teegraphed the Paris police to
arrest her and lodge her in prostitutes
| prison. Justice Butt characterized as out
| rageous, remarking that he never had
known anything more dishonorable than
| Lord Collins allegation to the Paris officers
that his wife was living in open adultery
with one of the correspondents, and should
| be arrested and treated as a woman of the
town. The story told by -,
THE MAN SERVANT, o'NEIL,
that he once saw through the keyhole of
the door of the dining-room at Cadogan
place Chief Shaw and Lady Colin in GRIM
inal intercourse, the judge said he could
not regard with favor The jury must con-
slider whether O'Neilrs letter to Lady
Colin, after his discharge by her, seeking
to re-enter her employment was not black
mail, and the jury should further consider
the question whether Chief Shaw's teSti-
mony in denial of the statement. a distin-
guished public servant was not worth as
much, if not more than the statement Of
such person as O'Neill. Gen. Butler. the
court thought, should have come into court
and given testimony as to his innocence,
but so long as he chose to remain away
there was no power in England to compel
him to come. Gen. Butler is remaining away
from court
DESERTED LADY COLIN.
But the judge told the jury they must
not take Buffers absence as evidence Of
guilt on either part. Replying to a ques-
ton of a juryman, the judge said that Gen.
Butler was beyond the jurisdiction of the
court, and that a subpoena could not COM
pei him to attend and testify, because,
being made co-defendant, he was pro-
tected by the clause of the law which makes
it impossible to ask an discriminating ques-
ton unless the witness was a voluntary
one. The case was then given to the Jury
and they retired. After a short absence
they returned, and reported that they could
not agree upon verdict. The disagree
ment, however, was not final. They found
that Lord Colin Campbell had not COM
mitted adultery, and that Lady Colin had
not committed adultery with any Of the CO.
respondents. The jury added rider that
the conduct of Gen. Butler was unworthy
of gentleman and an officer, and had
caused the only difficulty which the jury
had experienced in reaching a decision.
The announcement of the verdict was re-
ceived with applause.
The newspapers, in their comments on
the Campbell trial, express the opinion that
although the verdict is unsatisfactory, the
Jury could have come to no other conclusion,
and that the case shows the necessity Of an
alteration of the divorce proceedings.
Not Afraid of EsleUrO.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. The Shufeldt Distil-
I,r,, oo,,Dopv announces to-day thot If will