The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-03
WIVES IN ENGLISH LAW.
SOME NOTABLE CASES or ABDUC-
TONS BY HUSBANDS.
English Women Must Live with Their
Observation-Disclosures Not the Only Man
Who Has Enforced Obedience Under
the Old La~-Diderent Results.

| times, to take advantage of the peculiar
| English law relating 90 conjugal rights.
/ Substantially that law permits husband
/ TO compel a wife to live with him. That
! Is, she is denied the right OF choice. She
/ must have something besides her prefer
! ence TO sustain claim for legal interior
( ence in her behalf OF course nowadays
( the tendency of courts is toward the largest
/ individual liberty compatible with law.
/ and a very slight cause or pretext might
/ be accepted as justifying a wife's release
/ from compulsory association with her hus-
/ band. On this tendency the court acted in
| Mrs. Jackson's case, deciding that she
/ should have the right to choose her own
residence.
| Mrs. Jackson has had different expert
| ence from Emily, the wife of Sir Hercules
| Robert Packenham and daughter of the
/ old English family OF LIE Despencer. This
| lady, shortly after marriage, concluded 10
| leave her husband. She had no known
| ground of complaint, and it Is surmised
/ that she did not like Irish surroundings
and became homesick for England Sir
Hercules belonged 20 an Anglo-Irish family
more noted for courage than prudence, as
instaneed in the case of his famous brother,
Sir Edward, who fell in the battle OF New
Orleans When he came home one day
and found that Lady Packenham, TO whom
he had been married about two months,
was missing, he did not sit down quietly
but made up his mind TO get her back.
Mereworth Castle, Kent, was then, as now,
no contemplate place of refuge, and every
body in the vicinity was almost a feudal
vassal of the Despencers-
Emily had every reason to consider her
self safe in her ancestral halls, and indeed
nobody could have dreamed that she was
In any danger of abduction. Sir Hercules
laid his plans well, and he had for assist
ants two sturdy veterans who had followed
him in the Peninsular war. He brought a
carriage comfortably furnished and pair
of swift horses when he drove up TO Mere
worth castle one pleasant day in 1917
STEALING HIS WIFE
Sir Hercules did not condescend TO lie in
wait. He called at the castle, asked for his
wife and was ushered into her presence.
She told him she would not return to live
with him. Sir Hercules, who well deserved
his name, picked her up gently and firmly
and carried her, too dazed to summon help,
to his carriage. The menials who saw the
act did not dare to interfere, but fastened
to tell Lord lie Despencer. 1t took that
gentleman some time TO organize pursuit,
and meanwhile Sir Hercules and his cap
tive were speeding swiftly toward Sand
gate. There vessel awaited Sir Hercules,
prepared to convey him TO Ireland he
was overtaken during the delay attendant
upon EN- barkation, but he promptly threat
ened 10 kill any one interfering with him.
Lord LIE Despencer concluded, after a
parley, not 20 attempt a rescue. Sir Her
cules promised that if Emily would remain
with him four months longer she would
then be at liberty TO make her own choice
as TO the future, and on this basis a truce
was arranged. At the end of the four
months Lady Packenham was willing TO
remain with her husband, and they lived
together happily for thirty-two years,
when he died, she surviving him as a
widow for quarter OF a century longer.
At Highworth, in Wiltshire, as late as
1855, the house of farmer named Samuel
Angel was besieged for week by sympa-
thizers with his wife, whom he had conf
PEELED 10 rejoin him. The woman deserted
Angel while he was serving a short sen
tence for some petty offense, and on his re-
turn he carried her to the house from an
adjoining farm, where she was making
living as a dairymaid. The rustics assem-
bIed in large numbers and surrounded the
dwelling which was protected, however,
by the police.
The farmer was literally starved into al
lowing his wife to go No one would sup
ply him with provisions for fear OF popular
Indignation, and what be had in the house
was exhausted in the course of a few days.
He opened the door at last, and told his
wife TO depart II she desired She went
and did not return
A SAD CASE
The late Sir Arthur Jervoise had a most
romantic experience with his wife, Georgi-
ana, whom be abducted by force after a
separation that mad lasted over two years.
In that instance Ellsworth park presented
the appearance OF an old fashioned siege,
the gentry of the neighborhood taxing dif-
ferent sides in the dispute and turning out
with their tenants a. friends or foes Of Sir
Arthur However, there was no actual
fighting. one side keeping On watch TO
help the lady if she should succeed in leav-
ing the mansion, aud the other 70 prevent
her from beins carried away. The pictur-
esque costume of the gentry, most Of whom
turned out in their hunting attire, added
70 the interest Of the occasion, and scores
of people went down from London 70 see
the episode
The siege, If il may be called such, lasted
altogether four days, during two Of which
Lady Georgiana was locked in her apart
ments- AT length Sir Arthur himself
threw open the great doors and invited the
besiegers 70 enter. Lady Georgiana was
there and allowed Der husband 20 state in
her behalf and his OWL that they were en-
tirely reconciled- Then followed a ban
quet and several days Of rejoicing
Il is said, however, that these affairs had
sometimes a tragic ending in the oiden
days As late as the middle Of the Eigh-
tenth century tragedy of this kind C
CURED al Mount Boone, Devon The wife
of a gentleman named Carthew, held an
unwilling prisoner, attempted 20 escape by
a window and fell, receiv wing fs:sl injuries.
She died IN the arms Of her husband. VINO
narrowly escaped violence a. the hands Of
the people.
There IS another sad instances fl TIRE
Redesdals family q the wife OF Captain
Milford. who starved 70 death In keE hus-
bands custody, refusing 70 take ether
food or drink while he detained Der cap
tive. The magistrates az length interfersd,
but the order for heF release arrived after
after Ter death. The husband, who lad
not supposed her coalition 50 serio1s and
had hoped 20 snbdae her s-ub5o-unezs.
went ua1 when he learned the So resu4.
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