Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-21
COUNTESS CowLEY's DIVORCE SUIT.
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Countess Cowleys divorce suit against her
husband, Earl Cowley.
Countess Cowley was Violet Neville, the
youngest daughter of the first marquis OF
Abergavenny. The hearing OF her suit was
resumed today before Justice Barnes. a
long deposition of valet named Lane, in
the employ OF the earl OF Aberdeen, gov
ernor general OF Canada, was read and sew
eral servants testified to the earl's intimacy
with Mrs. Charrington, the correspondent in
the case, after which the hearing was ad.
journed for week
The Abergavenny family, the Nevilles, real
descendants of Warwick the Kingmaker, are
great tory magnates. Abergavenny.
previously an earl, was made a marquis by
Lord Beaconsneld who drew him in
"Lothaire." Ladies Violet and Rose Neville
were twin beauties of their day Violet
now is Lady Cowley; Rose Is Lady Blundell
| Leigh, whose husband is a brother of Lady
| Arlington. Earl Cowley Is a granddaughter
| Of the great duke OF Wellington, and the
grandson of the famous Earl Cowley, who
was ambassador to France. Young Lord
Cowley went the pace and was sued for
breach OF promise by Phyllis Broughton, a
Gaiety theater girl a few years before his
marriage. Phyllis Broughton is now mar
ried to an army major. She was a very
pretty soubrette in the Gaiety company
some years ago, and is still acting. Her
claim Tor breach of promise was settled in
court by the payment of $4,000 ($25 OO0).
Lord DUNCAN was boon companion of Lord
lunio, now the earl of Clancarty, who mar
ried Belle Billion. The men were all con-
spicuous figures in the most fashionable Lon
don society
The chief squald feature of the evidence
so far is the complacence of Charrington.
the wealthy husband of the correspondent
In Lady Cowley's suit, who kept up mar
riage relations in a handsome house ON Port
street, the most exclusive quarter of fash
ionable London, while his wife was reoeiv-
ing calls from Lord Cowley, posting mean
whlle In the drawing room door card say
ing: please knock before entering"
Colonel Fred Wellesley another fashionable
figure in the case, married Kate Vaughan, a
famous dancer and actress. Wellesley was
military attache at st. Petersburg when he
eloped with Kate Vaughan.
HONOR FOR MAJOR GALWAY.
Lord Salisbury has just given an impor-
tant command in the West African war to
Major Galway, an English officer who as
the readers Of the World will remember,
was found year ago in room of the
Grand hotel almost dead with a bullet in his
head, while brothers wife lay dying be-
side him with another bullet through her
| head, confessing her guilty relations and
remorse with her last breath. Yet the officer
loses nothing by his acknowledged guilt
while poor clerk named Chippendale. found
ing many doubts in the outside community,
of cutting his young bridei5 throat fatally
and nearly killing himself by slashing his
own throat with the same razor was promptly
hanged at Newgate afterward.
Young Sir Robert Peel, well known to New
| Workers by reason, among other things, of
his interview in the World, just after the
| breaking of his engagement to a rich Ameri-
| can girl, has written-and a respectable
| London firm has published-the most extra
ordinary book in the long list of pernicous
| products of this decadent period It Is writ
| ten in the first person, and purports to give
the career about London and on the English
| turf OF a young man of fortune. social posi-
| tion, good looks and good manners-other-
| wise young Peel himself. 1t Is simply and
| only list of criminal intrig-ss with peas
| ant girls on the hero's estate, with woman
Of his own household, with women of fash
| ion and with comic opera singer. together
| with list of frauds on the English turf ;
| OF dealings with money lenders and with
| sharpers at cards in fashionable clubs. 1t
| is the most frightful picture of a certain
obviously contemporaneous circle of fashion
| able London society which it Is possible TO
put between book covers
HIS NAME WELL KNOWN.
As every one knows, this young man of
2S or so has lived on the pace here to a
degree perhaps not unique among his asso-
ciateS in his set, but he has been rather
more before the public eye than any of
| them. His name has been constantly and
| publicly associated with the most notable
| lin one sense) woman in London and the
United States an interview with whose hus-
band the World printed the other day. He
has inherited the striking, distinguished
personal beauty of his father, with all his
fascination of manner the charm and grace
at least, If not the other qualities, of his
lovely mother who belonged to the upright
and distinguished Tweeddale family and
something certainly of the genius of his
statesman grandfather. He was only lately
again conspicuousy before the public after
the rupture of his second engagement of
! marriage this time to a daughter of a
| newly-made peer of enormous fortune, who
| broke the engagement on the receipt of a
mysterious letter about Sir Robert.
This psuedo novel, whatever else may be
| said of it, is written with undoubted power
and interest. Certainly no young man of
his generation is better fitted by experience
and adventure to write understandingly and
accurately of that section of fashionable
| London society, with the members of which
| most people are familiar, chiefly through the
constant publication in the newspapers of
! their balls, hunts and house parties.
AS illustrating some aspects of the Vic
| toria era the publication of his book is fol-
| lowed by another human document of some
what commensurate interest with the con-
| fesslon of Jean Jacques Rousseau touching
| the Frcncn social regime OF the early ana
middle eighteenth century, or the memories
OF De Grammont. Among others of the same
| character are the revelations of Petronus
Arbiter concerning the utra-fashionable
life of the wealthiest Romans in the earlier
centuries OF our era.
HERITAGE OF SHAME
If this young arstocrat's picture is to be
accepted as truly drawn, what heritage of
shame 1t offers to succeeding Anglo-SaXon
generations He makes his chief female
character the leader of the most influential
circle of London society, giving portrait
OF living woman which few will fail to
recognize. In the novel, and, as gossip says,
in real life, she stpulates before her open
shame the receipt of a great brlbe yet Is
of such social power that after throwing her
lover aside bankrupt, she succeeds in taboo
Ing from social recognition his innocent,
wel-born and admirable married sister. An
exact happening. In fact, according to com
mon report in London.
The author makes his most prominent
male character popular at all the leading
clubs, race courses and drawing rooms OF
London and coverts of the great country
houses. yet card sharper suave swinder
at Newmarket and the royal enclosure at
Ascot, brute at home, a preux chevaier of
women away from 1t. This portrait likewise
is easily recognized by every one here.
Only one newspaper, and that the Chroni-
Gle the able organ OF the common classes"
dares to notice this perhaps truthful but