The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-05
MRS. LEADER GOT DAMAGES
End of Sensational English Society
Suit, Much Like the Osborne Case.
Wife OF General Ordered to Pay the Wife of
Lieutenant $500 for Saying the
Latter Stole Brooch.

LONDON. Nov. 4-Iho Queens semen or
her Msiesty's High Court of Justice was
crowded to-day with an aristocratic thronR,
all curious to hear the conclusion of the
celebrated Leadership tn case. which Is an
action for damages for Islander brought by
Mrs. Lieutenant Leader against Mrs. Maj
Gen. Gibbons Smyth. The latter charged
that Mrs. Leader. while on visit to her
house on Sept. u. 1891, stole brooch be-
longing to Mrs. Smyth. which the latter
declared she subsequently saw exposed for
sale in q jewelers. shop. Mrs. Smyth pro-
cured the brooch by threatening to take
legal action against the jeweler. and again
wrote o threatening letter to Mrs Leader,
who was In India with her husband. accus-
ipR her of the theft and stating that
II she desired TO avoid publicity she must
send by return mail 5guiueas to cover the
costs OF recovering the brooch. Instead OF
replying to this letter. Mrs. Leader, as
soon as possible after the receipt thereof.
instructed counsel to bring q suit for dam
ages for Islander against Mrs Smyth. Mrs.
Leader acknowledged selling brooch to
the Jeweler In whose shop the alleged
stolen article was found, but declared that
the brooch she sold was her personal prop
erty, 1T having been given to her by
friend. Captain French, as wedding gift
To-day was the fourth day of the trial. At
the close of the arguments Justice Day pro,
ceeded TO sum ND the case. he expressed
tinuing., he said that if the defend
ant had pleaded that she had Mt
tered the Islander on privileged
occasion. he might have held that view
was right in the absence OF express proof
of malice. But the defense justified the
Islander. and undertook to prove to the
satisfaction of the jury that the brooch had
been stolen by Mrs Leader from Mrs.
Smyth's room. 1t was q curious coin-
cidence that these two ladies, friends,
which the original maker knew of only
nine having been made since 1891. 1t was
also curious coincidence that both LADIES'
should cease to possess them at about the
same time, Mrs. Smyth losing hers and
Mrs. Leader selling hers With regard to
Mrs. Leaders position it was Important to
remember that she was not III want OF
money. Viewing all the evidence. he must
say If the case had been taken to Criminal
Court. he would not, Oh the evidence of
Mrs. smyth. have allowed the charge to 60
before a jury. 1t was open TO the present
jury to decide whether Mrs. Smyth was
actuated by malice in uttering the charges
against Mrs. Leader.
The Jury. after a short elaboration, re-
turned with verdict awarding Mrs. Lead
or 81 500 damages. The verdict was greeted
with applause, which the court Immediate
ly suppressed. The friends of Mrs. Leader
congratulated her. She waited in the
courtroom only long enough TO shake
hands with Mr. Lock w ood after W hlch. &C.
companied by her husband, she quickly
walked through the corridor and entered
cab. The verdict means. with costs and
additional damages. that the defendant
will have to pay at least $500.
This Happened in Free-Iradc England.
LONDON. Nov. 4-The treatment to which
the female employees of the Aereated Bread
Company has been subjected has just been
made public. and has aroused indignant
public criticism. Many hundreds of girls
work sixty hours weekly for from 8 to
10 shlllings q week, often in overheated.
badly-ventilated underground rooms. As
the last dividend declared by the company
was AZ per cent, small section of the
shareholders proposed that the workers
should also profit by the prosperity of the
company and receive slight increase In
their wages. The bulk of the shareholders
were thunderstruck at such proposal.
They howled it down. The chairman de-
clared shat the company could get girls at
half the price now paid, denounced work
ingmen in general Tor craving Tor what
was called leisure, and complained that
pride in labor was lessenipg. The Wom-
ems Trade-union Association has taken up
the cause of the girls aud proposes to or
ganize them for their own protection and
make things warm for the company.
A Revengeful Wife.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. 4.-Navroyeni
Pasha, the Sultan's favorite physician, has
been arrested in consequence of his re-
vengeful wife sending TO the Sultan her
husbands diary. in which daily notes were
made of the variable conditions of the Sui
tans mind. Navroyenl Pasha has been q
trusted friend and confidant of the Sultan
since the latters childhood. He married a
French Jewess, whose scandalOus life has
twice involved him in disgrace and finally
compelled him to apply for q divorce.
Mrs. Deacon Outwits Her Husband.
PARIS, Nov. 4.-Mrs. Deacon has sprung
another, sensation by abducting her child
from q convent. The abduction took place
Immediately after the decision of the court
in her suit for divorce. Thee awarded
the custody of the child to MIR. Deacon.
Mrs Deacon arrived at the convent ahead
of the news of the decision. which was
brought BY her husband a few moments
after the wife had hurriedly driven away
with the child.
Convicted of Killing an American.
GENOA, Nov. 4-Baravalle. the waiter
who so brutality murdered Frank Reilly,
one of the Drew of the United States steam-
ship Newark while the war ship was at
this port taking part in the Columbian
fetes, was to-day found guilty of man.
slaughter and sentenced TO twelve years
and six months imprisonment. He was
also condemned TO pay an indemnity and
costs.
Ex-Consui Ryder Pardoned.