The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28
IN THE
How Dukes Get Just What They Want
in Merry England.


in Merry England.
Dispatches from London tell OF the
arrest and imprisonment OF a duchess
for contempt of court. From an Eng
lishman now visiting in st. Louis, and
who is personally acquainted with the
lady, the following interesting story of
the career of the Duchess of Sutherland
was obtained:
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
was Mary Caroline, the youngest daugh-
ter Of the late. Rev. Mr.. Michel, d. d..
principal Of the Hartford college, Ok
ford. She was a very beautiful girl, and
when she arrived at the proper age mar
ried Captain Blair Of tho English army.
Some time during the year 1884 the
duke met Mrs. Blair and fell in love with
her. Their intimacy continued for sew
eral years, and it is said the captain was
fully aware of the fact. Mrs. Blair was,
in the course of time, taken to Trent
ham, the dukes home, where che lived
with him, Captain Blair being sent to
Dunraven, the dukes Scottish seat. An
agreement is said to have been entered
into between the duke and the captain
whereby the latter resigned all claim to
the person of Mrs. Blair in favor of the
duke. All this time the Duke of Suth-
erland had a living wife, from whom he
was not divorced.
During the latter part of 1887, or early
part of 1888. the duke and Captain Blair
went on a shooting expedition to Lilies
hall in Shropshire, and in some manner
the captain was accidentally killed by a
shot said to have come from the dukes
gun. Some garrulous people vent SO
far as to say that the captain was not
accidentally killed, but the duke was an
influential man, and then the statements
were only m after all and the affair
guieted down and was forgotten.
In the early part of 1888 the duke,
while living with Mrs. Blair, was taken
very ill at Trentham. Mrs. Blair nursed
him through his illness. The dowager
duchess of Switzerland, who was living
apart from her husband at Torquay, a
watering place, called at Trentham to
see the duke during his illness. She
sent him word that she would come IN if
he would order Mrs. Blair away from his
bedside while sho was present. The
duke sent back word that if she wanted
to see him she would have to do SO in
the presence of Mrs. Blair. The duchess
returned to Torquay without seeing him.
Shortly after that incident the duke and
Mrs. Blair started for America. While
they we're crossing the Atlantic on the
steamship Etruria the dukes wife was
t'ken i'll and died at Torquay.
When the duke and Mrs. Blair arrived
at New York there was a cable message
awaiting him from Queen Victoria. stat
ing hat his wife was dead and urging
him to return to England at once. TO
this he paid no attention. proceeding
with Mrs. Blair to Florida, whittier they
had started. Three months later the
duke and Mrs. Blair we're married. They
remained in this country about Is
months, when they returned to England.
Notice was sent by the duke to all his
tenants at Trentham that he would ar
rive at "a certain date with his wife.
This was done SO the duke and wife
would have a triumphal entry such as is
accorded lords upon their return from a
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