Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
LOVE AND FINANCE
Did Not Go Very Well Together in
IsadOre Wertheimer's Case.
WHAT HE DID FOR BELLE Billion.
His Pursestrings We're Always Loose for Hen
in Her Adversely.
SHE REMEMBERS THE KINDNESS NOW
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrspArcH.l

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.l
LONDON, Aug. 22.-Young Isadore
| Wertheimer, who achieved international
distinction less than two years ago as the
correspondent in the Earl of Clancarty :
| suit for an absolute divorce from the Coun-
| tess Atti, when the Earl was Lord Dunlo
and the Countess had just changed her
name from Belle Billion to Lady Dunlo, has
this week directed the course of his destiny
| into the bankruptcy courts.
It will be remembered that Wertheimer,
although correspondent, was not a bad
| young man. IT was proved to ''the salts
faction of a British jury" that he had had
no guilty relations with Lady Dunlo, dur
| ing the year her Lord was absent by his
fathers commands, but that, on the con-
trary, .Wertheimer, to cite the Thackeray-
| nian view, "for all the wealth of the
Indies would do nothing for to
hurt her." It was shown in court
that Wertheimer's debts were e6, 678,
and his available assets e99 Sc Id, in addi-
tion to q claim for $4,000 in connection
with mine. He told the Court that he
was law student, but that in 1880 he went
into business with his father, who was O
bric-a-brac dealer in New Bond street, at a
salary of e5o0 and percentage of the
profits. That brought his income up to be-
tween s2, 900 and e., 900 per year.
LIVED ON FIVE POUNDS A DAY.
This amount proved insufficient for the
youth to keep a stable, chambers in Jermyn
street and house in st. Johns Wood, and
in 1889 his parent settled his debts on con-
sideration that he should go away from Lon
don for year and subsist upon 60 per day
He had scarcely been gone four months
when Lord Dun1o married Belle Billion, of
the music hall stage and the Corinthian
Club, who had in her absolute
possession the young bric-a-brac dealers
heart, and when the Earl of Clancarty or
dered the young husband to India for
year with the chaste hope, as he admitted
in court during the divorce proceedings
afterward, that his daughter-in-law would
be driven to prostitution by poverty. Vert
heimer could not resist the temptation that
drew him back to London to be Lady Dun
los guardian angel until her husbands re-
turn He took for her house in Avenue
Road; he gave her three horses and between
$500 and e400 worth of jewelry, for
which he still owes, but though he
lived in the same house with her
ladyship and drove her home in his
private hanson from the music
halls each evening, neither the driver of
the hanson nor the servants of the house
saw aught in the conduct of the pair that
transgressed the laws of good conduct, how
ever social conventions may have been out
ragged.
HIS KINDNESS WAS UNsELFIsH.
Nor did Wertheimer's unselfsh offices
cease when Lord Dunlo's suit for divorce
was decided against him and he returned to
his lady's arms, for when the disappointed
and angry Earl of Clancarty, who promoted
the divorce proceedings, cut off his
sons allowance, and that young noble
man was forced to subsist upon his
wife's earnings it was Wertheimer whose
purse supplied the deficiency in the house.
hold expenses.
1t is pleasing to note that now the Earl
has gone under his mausoleum and his son
inherited his title and estates that the
Countess has not forgotten her ad-
mirer's generosity, as is demonstrated
BY the circumstances that it was shown in
court that she only recently loaned Vert
heimer e120, and has not put in any petit
tion with the rest of the creditors for its re-
turn. Nevertheless, Isidore has gone to
names, by the way, reflect the pleas
ing sentimentality of the young mans
nature, "Sweetie," ''Tootsie," "Sugar"
and Sweetheart" have been sold, his
chambers and their furnishing distrained
for rent, his credit gone at his outEtters
and nothing left him but his wardrobe and
''the bitter memory of unkissed kisses and
songs that ne'er were sung"