Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-23
MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER
England Startled By a Shock.
 ing Revelation.
TO BE AIRED IN A DIVORCE COURT.

Alfred Clark, a Wealthy Society Man,
 Made His IlIegitimate Child His Wife
 He Posed as Her Guardian-The Discov.
 cry Nearly Drives the Unhappy Girl
 Mad-Friends Take Up Her Cause.
 LONDON, Dec. 23.-Polite society is just now discussing with bated breath one ot the most shocking scandals of the many that have sullied it's history. The scan dal will soon occupy the attention of the divorce court in the form of 8 petition for the nullifcation of 8 marriage which was presented on Dec. 14 by the Rev. Edward A. Chichester, Vicar ot Dorking, Surrey, on behalf of a most un- happy girl.
 The scandal had its origin in 1874, when Aline Marianne de Hoghton, the unmar- ried daughter of Sir Henry de Hoghton, Baronet, head of an ancient and noble family, was delivered in Milan, Italy, of a female child, the father of which was Alfred Aurelius Clark, wealthy man, who moves in the highest society and whose name figures in the Court Di- rectory. Clark refused to marry his victim.
 The birth of the child was kept a secret and the mother returned to society, mo- body being the wiser as to her shame.
 She married in January, 1910, an Irish gentleman of good family named Fitz- gerald. She spent the greater part of her time until her death, few years ago, on the Continent. Her betrayer, meanwhile had married. There is every reason to believe that the mother heavily lowered her daughter born at Milan. It is not disputed, at any rate, that Clark posed before the world as the girls guardian. Ev cry care was taken with the girls edu- cation, which until five years ago was re- ceived mainly in France and Italy.
 In 1887 Clark brought his illegitimate daughter from French nunnery to Little Hampton, where they lived as guardian and ward. No pains or expense were spared in perfecting the young girl of 14 ill various accomplishments. French and Italian she spoke naturally and perfectly, and special teacheres were engaged for music and English, the supposed guardian taking a keen and fatherly interest in her progress.
 This life, with occasional trips to neigh boring places and d short school term at Clever, near Windsor, continued until 1890, when the guardian's wife died. Some months afterward he proposed mar riage to his supposed ward and actual daughter, and was accepted.
 The marriage took place in London, and father and daughter thenCetOrWard lived together as man and wife. In March, 1S92, the girl, then only IS years of age, gave birth to q baby boy, and in July following the unhappy child-mOther discovered that her guardian was not only her husband, but also her own father and father of her infant.
 The awful discovery nearly deprived her of reason. She was practically friend less. The fact of the marriage had been kept a secret. Clark's own two legiti mate daughters, with whom he resided in a charming mansion in Kensington, knew nothing of it, and he and his daughter wife had lived in another house. Every effort was made by Clark to coerce the girl into remaining with him, but she resolutely refused, and finally obtained the shelter of family, some members of which had assisted in her education.
 These people, after grave consideration, placed the matter before the Rev. MT. Chichester, a gentleman well-known for his benevolence and probity, and he took the girls cause into his hands.
 It is believed that Clark relies upon the difficulty that exists of proving that he was other than the guardian of the girl, as the birth of the child in Milan in 1874, was, for obvious reasons, kept abso- lutely secret, and adequate legal proof of the fact will in consequence be very hard to obtain.
 Clark is in London now, although there were rumors that he had fled the country.