Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-10
LORD CH0LLY SQUEALS.
SAYS HIS WIFE IS BEING CoERCED
Into Seeking DMorce-The Truth Is She Is Afraid He Will Succeed in Se-
 curing Pardon.

New York, June 9.-Charles Somerset Beresford, who calls himself a lord and is otherwise known as Sidney Lascelles. has sent from the convict lumber camp in Georgia, where he is serving a six years sentence for forgery, story that his wife's relatives are conspiring to keep him in custody.
 He says his wife, who was Miss Maud Lilienthal of Yonkers. still loves him and believes in his innocence, but that she is being coerced into seeking a divorce. He says if Governor Atkinson pardons him, as he has been asked to do, his wife would not be able to get. 8 divorce on the ground that he is felon, and that for this reason an effort is being made to keep him there until the divorce shall have been granted.
 Investigation shows that the spurious lords story is in 0 measure true, That his wife retains any affection for him is said to be false. The young woman stands in fear of him, and it Is said that several times lately she has fallen into highly nervous and collapsed condition on hearing of his efforts to secure par don.
 She is still in Beaver, Pa. where she married Lascelles In 1891, after an elope ment, to secure the legal residence nec- essary to permit of a suit for divorce. A friend of hers explained yesterday that, while no combined effort was being made to prevent a pardon, several persons were acting on their own responsibility to that effect.
 The laws of both Georgia and Pennsyl vania provide that a conviction for feI- ony constitutes ground for divorce, and that residence of one year is necessary to legalize the action.
 This much wronged girl" said her n Rnmp l time with her husband. She would have returned there to establish 0 legal resi- dence had she not made herself respon- siblc for his debts She is worth nothing in her own name, for her father, the late Christian H. Lilienthal, who was a millionaire tobacco man, left his fortune to her mother, and she will in time nher- it it.
 Another reason why she did not go to Georgia was because she could not face those who had hOnored her and her hus- band. It was finally decided that she should go to Pennsylvania, and she has now been there almost year. It is not desired that Lascellcs shall get out at this iuncture. as his freedom might em- barrass the divorce proceedings"
 Lawyer David Bennett King of No. Al Pine street, who has had much to do with proceedings against tho spurious lord. admitted yesterday that he had written Prosecuting Attorney John w. CcnOlS oI1AtldUtd, dSKinS that IdScelleS should not be pardoned The letter was laid before the executive.
 "T am not the young woman's attorney in the divorce proceedings" said MT. King, "and l wrote merely because I think Lascelles is an irreclaimablc ras- cal and should be made to serve his term"
 It is known that while Governor At kinson was in New York last week on state finance business he made inquiry about Lasccllcs and is said to have as- sured himself that the convict did not deserve a pardon.
 The wifes attorneys are Gordon & Granger of No. 45 Broadway James Lindsay Gordon of the firm has just re- turned from Atlanta, where he has in- nuential relatives. He has done every thing possible to prevent a pardon. He would only say that q divorce was con tcmpatcd, declining to further discuss tho case