The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-17
LORD DEREsFORD's LATEST. !
Says His Wife's Relatives Are Cons
spring 10 Keep Him in Prisou
Strlpes.

Says His Wife's Relatives Are Con-
spring TO Keep Him in PrisOu
Stripes.
From the New York World, June 6.
Charles Somerset Beresford. who calls
himself a lord and is otherwise known
as Sidney Lascelles, has sent from the
convict camp in Georgia. where he is
serving a six years sentence for forgery.
story that his wife's relatives are con-
spring to keep him 10 custody.
He says his wife. who was Miss Maud
Lilienthal Of Yonkers, still loves him
and believes In his innocence, but that
she IL beng coerced into seeking a di-
vorce. lie says II Gov Atkinson par
dos him, as he has been asked TO do.
his wife would not be able to get di-
vorce on the 81 ound that he Is a 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 "A measure true. That
his wife retains any affection for him is
said to be false. The young woman
stands fear of him, and II is said that
several times lately she has fallen into
highly nervous and collapsed condition
on hearing Of his efforts to secure a par
don.
She is still In Beaver, Pa, where she
married Lascelles in 1891, after an elope-
mont, TO secure the legal residence neces-
sary to permit of a suit for divorce A
friend of hers explained yesterday that.
while no combined effort was being made
to prevent pardon, several persons were
acting on their own responsibility to
that effect
The laws Of both Georgia and Penn
sylvania provide that conviction for
felny constitutes ground for divorce, and
that residence of one year is necessary
to legalize tho action.
This much-wronsed GIRL said her
friend, lived in Rome, Ga, only a short
time with her husband. She would have
returned there to establish legal resi-
dence had she not made herself RESPONSE
BILE for his debts. She is worth nothing
in her own name. for her father, the late
Christian II. Lilienthal. who was a mill
lionaire tobacco man. left his fortune to
her mother. and she will in time Inherit
1t.
Another reason why she did not 20 to
Georgia was because she could not face
those who had honored her and her hus-
band. 1t. was finally decided that she
should go to Pennsylvania, and she has
now been there ALMOST year. 1t is not
desired that Lascelles shail get out at this
Juncture. as his freedom might embarrass
the divorce proceedings"
Lawyer David Bennett King of No. 44
Pine street. who has had mucn 10 do with
proceedings against the spurious lord, adj
mitted yesterday that he had written
Prosecuting Attorney John w. Echols OF
Atlanta. asking that Laseelles should not
be pardoned. The letter was laid before
the executive.
Il am not the young woman's attorney
In the divorce proceedings" said Mr.
King, land ! wrote merely because
think Lascelles Is an irreclaimable rascal
and should be made TO serve his term"
1t is known that while Gov, Atkinson
was in New York last week on state
finance business he made inquiry about
Lascelles. and is said to have assured him
self that the convict did not deserve q
pardon.
The wife's attorneys are Gordon & Gran
ger of No. As Broadway James Lindsay
Gordon of the firm has just returned from
Atlanta where he has influential rela-
tives. He has done everything possible
to prevent pardon. He would only say
that a divorce was contemplated, deelin-
ing to further discuss the case