The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-06
LADY DUSGps VICTIMS.
What She Has Dome in the way of
Wrecking Homes and Lives

The career OF l. dy Dunlo. nee Billion,
does not provide All eligible moral for a
Sunday -ci1ool boog If sue had been q
good III lie girl ant hal ived proper and
yir uous life sh would probably now De
married 20 some honest % der on e shil-
ling per day in the reksIE mt n which be-
father is sergeant AZ Woo! wich, AID have
i've or six children TO look after n addi
ton 20 dong ner own homework. AS ii is
she has one vict N doing seven years penal
ssrv.sude, another disgraced ouscsSi
from family of high lineage. and
third, marx Tor the finger
OF scoTn. rapidly dissipating a iortune
10 win her smiles. In conseq ence she IS
receiving fl00 pc. week salary IS ac-
trcss. Though she IS entirely devoid OF tai
ent, is paying TO crowd q houses at one Of
the biggest thea3ers IL LONDON. q I'd is the
idol OF the a1o.escent nobility and the
dsIni-monde OF Great Bfitqin. which two
social castles have many tastes in common.
Lady Dunio-her ii e - a. genuine As that
OF any peeress III Engiard-is his We (
playing at the Grand taeater in Isiington
the title role of ''Venusden, al absurd
and interesting buTle-gue, in which fem.
nine legs are an important cement. The
Grand theaier might be compared 10 the
Grand opera-house in New York. Ii
is the place where leading L'ndon
companies, such as those OF Irving
and Wyndham and ali frsi-rate theat-rs
play at reduced prices when their own
houses begin TO fall below profitable rates
As general thing, only the residents of
Ellington. a northern suburb, where the
Grand tneater j. situated. attend It's per-
formanees, but this week that part of the
West Esd that is in the town has been
crowding the boxes and stalls to see the
woman who has ruined the lives of three
men. Lady Dunno drives up each evening
from her house in Regent park in a smart
brougham with coacnmsn ami footman at
tended often by her husband, Lord Dnnlo;
often By Isidure Wertneimer, The CO. re-
srondent IN her husbands recent suit for
divorce, and as often DV roth. The gen.
era impression is that WerGheimer is keep
ing up the Dunio es;a blishment, as young
Durlo had his allowance cut off bv his
father. Earl Clancarty. while the young
Jew is as rich a. his nationality are prov
erbieliy supposed 10 he. a friend of the
father OF Alden Carter Weston who was
sentenced couple OF weeks ago to seven
years penal seryiinde with hard labor for
forging Weitneimer's name to checks
which were cashed by Lady Dun O..
gave me some information today abont
the convict. He SAYS that Weston
father IS Baltimorean, who left his ma.
tive city after the civil war, and has
nee resided in Europe. Alden Weston.
VINO l. now handsome and intelligent
man. 81 years OF age. was educated in
France. he married, several years ago,
the daughter OF General Camvbell, an
officer in the British army, by whom he
has TWO children, BOY and girl Weston
was fast young fellow, who freuuentnd
the race courses and music halls At one
OF the latter he met Bel Billion, now Lady
Dunlo. de deserted his wife and children
for her and spent his entire fortune upon
her. she had, while his money lasted,
horses. carriages and jewels. When
he came 20 the end of his
tether he resor'ed 10 criminal means
to obtain more money 10 lavish
upon the woman who bad fascinated him,
anu not quite two years ago be was SEN
fenced 10 eighteen months imprisonment
on charge OF conspiracy 10 defraud
Upon the expiration of his imprisonment
lie continued his intimacy with Belle, then
Lady DunIo. by whom he has had child.
My informant asserts emphaticaily that
tue charge npon which he is now impris-
oned was trnmped up by Lord and Lady
Dunio and Nerineimer 10 get Weston out
OF the way. The same informant says that
Weston is desperate man, absolutely mad
about his former mis- 5ress, and that it was
fear OF him that induced them TO cons pire
for his conviction.
a. l would not give," saws the man. "a
farthiRg for the life of Isdy Duulo when
Weston's term expires, or for the lives of
Lord Dunlo or Wertheimer. He is Just as
certain TO make ii his first business To kill
her, and afterward her husband and para
mour, as if the fact were already accom-
pllshed. He is a hot-biooded young South
erner. who feels that his life is ruined, and
who would brave hundred deaths for the
sake OF vengeance