Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-04
that DIRTY CASE.
Lady Campbell Crowded in tho Mire
Deeper and Deeper.

Lady Campbell Crowded in the Miro
Deeper and Deeper.
LONDON, December 3.-In the Campbell
divorce case to-day, O'Neil, the man-ser-
want, in cross examination, repeated his
declaration of yesterday that
LOOKING THROUGH THE KEY-HoLE
he saw the plaintiff and Chief Shaw in
compromising position. Lord Campbell,
the witness said, was in the drawiDg-room
when Shaw and the plaintiff were on this
occasion in the dining-room. Witness was
asked If he did not know that there were
flaps over the key-holes in the dining-room
door. II 20 not," he replied. Elizabeth
Evans, houeemaid for Lady Miles, testified
that during Easter, in 1882, Lady Camp
bell occupied bed room No. 3S, at Leigh
Court, and that the Duke OF Marlborough
OCCUPIED No. 81. Witness saw Lady Camp
bell once take off one of her slippers and
throw it at the duke. Both went to Leigh
Court on the same day and they left on the
same day also.
While Lady Campbell was at Leigh she
anpeared to be robust and went out on
long walks in all kinds of weather, in snow,
rain or mud. with DR.. Bird. 1t was only
after the plaintiff g return to London that
she appeared to be i'll.
ONLY THAT OLD SOLDIER.
Witness remembered that on the occa-
sion. in April, 1888, when Gen. Butler was
in the drawing-room with Lady Campbell,
some one called her ladyship and she came
out and said she was not at home. Her
hair was disarranged and her face flushed.
When Lord Campbell came home Lady
Campbell went to her bedroom and Gen.
Butler came down stairs aud let himself
ont of the house. Soon afterN ards Lady
Campbell came down and began to sing
and play. Lord Campbell called her. She
went to his room and said she didn't know
he was at home and asked him why he did
not come into the drawing-room. He re-
piied because she had visitor there. Lady
Campbell answered, sob! only that old
soldier. He has known me since l was
child"
Annie Duffy, Lord Campbells nurse. tes-
tilted she was engaged in 1882 to attend to
defendant. Lady Campbell gave him but
little attention. Her visits were scarcely
ever longer than five minutes, and she
never read to him.
HER LADYsHlP AND THE DOCTOR.
Once witness saw DR.. Bird sitting on stool
at Lady Campbell's feet. DIR. Bird met
Lady Colin at Leigh. Witness once saw q
letter in Lady Colin Campbell's hand writ
| ing fall out OF DR.. Birds case of instru.
ments. Lady Campbell became i'll in
April. Her ailment was unusual. The
doctor, conversing with witness ten days
afterwards, said: Don't talk about Lady
Campbell's illness. just say she had
cold" Witness, basing her observations
| on seventeen years experience as nurse
believed that Lady Campbell's illness was
the result of miscarriage.
DIR. Bird dined in the house and re
majned in Lady Campbell's bedroom till
| IL O'Clock. Lord Campbell said to him
"Isn't it rather late, doctor? Is Lady
Campbell so i'll that you have to remain
although she has a nurse?" DR.. Bird an
swered: II fell asleep and forgot the time.
After this illness Lady Campbell wore 8
N.hoop emerald ring, and when she went
| into her husbands room she used always
to turn the stones of the ring around iron
the top to the lower part of the finger that
bore it.
UGLY STATEMENTS.
Witness being asked why, as Lord Camp
bells nurse, she did not inform him, said
shs % refrained from doing SO because she fell
certain that ultimately he would find il
! aN out. Lady Campbell illness com
menced ON April 14th, and by the 18th the
witness concluded that her ladyship had
suffered miscarriage. Witness was not
aware that any operation had been per
formed. and never heard that such was the
case.
Amy Wright, nurse, testified that she
was in attendance ON Lord Campbell at
the time of his marriage. She accompanied
them to Scotland. From what she saw,
witness believed that Lady Campbell at
the time OF her marriage, and sometime be.