St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-28
LORD COLLINS INNINGS.
Yesterdays Developments in the Notori-
Gus Campbell Divorce Case
at London.
Tie Plaintiff Closes Her Case, and
the Defendants Attorney
Turns Loose.
A Railway Robbery in Belgium
Nets the Thieves About
100000.
Partisan sympathy for the Chicago
Anarchists eneral Foreign
intelligence.

LONDON, Nov. 27.-In the action for
divorce brought by Lady Campbell against
Lord Colin Campbell, the plaintiffs counsel
closed her side of the case to-day. Lady
Miles was cross examined. She said she
was not aware that cabman, bearing a
letter from the Duke of Marlborough, once
entered Lady CampbelPs bedroom. A
cabman might. witness thought, have
handed Lady Campbell letter indoors in
stead Of servant, and might have received
from her a reply direct, because under
the circumstances in which she was
placed, Lady Campbell might have
suspected her servants, especially
her husbands nurse, and feared to intrust
them with any correspondence. At this
point certain letters written by witness to
the defendant were produced. and she was
asked if they were hers. She said they
were and added that when she wrote them
she thought she was writing to man Of
honor and not to such person as Lord
Colin Campbell had turned out to be SEN
Sation and that she still thought woman's
letters should be considered sacred. Ap-
plause. Mrs. Duffy, Lord CampbelPs
nurse, Lady Miles continued,
INVENTED THE STORY
that Lady Campbell had miScarried. The
invention was made to conceal the real ma
ture OF Lady Campbel's afliction. Lord
Colin Campbell had told witness he was en-
deavorlng to obtain all the information ne
possibly could against his wife, in order to
sue her for divorce, and had subsequently
told witness that he had failed to obtain
any. Mr., Russell. plaintiffs counsel, cor
rected his opening statement by adding to it
that Lady Campbell, when she married the
defendant. brought him fortune of $780,
900. MIR. Russell then gave notice that
the plaintiffs case was closed.
Mr.. Robert Bannatyne Finay, Queens
counsel, opened the case for the
defense. He said it afforded
inexpressible relief to Lord Colin Campbell
to have an opportunity to defend himself in
open court from the gross and cruel impu-
tatlons which had been put upon him, and
from the charge of adultery which had been
trumped up. The malady from which
the defendant suffered was not venereal,
although the result of youthful indiscretion.
Lady Campbells mother had been told the
nature of the defendants ailment before
the marriage, but she nevertheless urged on
the union, saying her daughter was willing
to merely act as a nurse to her husband,
and even wrote to the Duke of Argyll to
press upon him fulhllment Of the engage
ment. The marriage was
AUTHORIZED BY PHYSICIAN,
who said it was desirable that defendant
should have the marriage relationship with
the plaintiff. During the Easter session of
1882 the Duke of Marlborough, who had
been corresponding with her, was oflen
seen in Lady Campbelrs company. They
visited Leigh Court at the same time and
their bedrooms therein adjoined. Doubt
less, Mr.. Finley contended, the Duke
of Marlborough and Lady Campbell at
this time were criininally intimate.
if they had not been before.
After this Lady Campbell went
to Paris and on this journey she was
chaperoned by Lady Miles. They remained
in Paris one month, the Duke of MARI
borough being there also. When Lady
Campbell returned from Paris she sent her
maid to Switzerland. evidently. the lawyer
said, because the maid knew too much.
That maid would be called by the defense
and would testify. On the 18th of August
Lady Campbell went to the Purfleet hotel
and remained there with the Duke of Marl-
borough until the following Monday. Gen.
Butler
VISITED LADY CAMPBELL
during her husbands absence, and used to
remain with her as long as three hours at a
time. Once during one of these interviews
some one called to Lady Campbell. She
came out of her room. her hair dlsarranged,
shouted mot al home," and returned to
Gen. Butler. In the meantime Lord Colin
Campbell came home unexpectedly, and
while he was still in one of the rooms
downstairs Gen. Butler slipped out on tip
toe without meeting the husband. That
same evening Lady Campbell was taken
ill. Lord Colin Campbell remained in
Leigh court from August. 1882. to Febru-
ary, 1888, and during this time Lady Camp
bell went to and from London and COM
lntted adultery with DR.. Bird. Lord Colin
Campbell then knew nothing about his
wife's bad conduct. but she had a guilty
conscience, and she got Solicitor Lewis to
write letter charging Lord Collin Camp
bell with giving her a loathsome disease
and refusing to live with him as his wife.
Lord Colin Campbell had never heard of
such charge before. and of course refused
to agree that they should not live as man
and wife.
BULGARIA.