The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30
THE MOST TALKED OF WOMAN.
Eccentric Lady sykes Faces Her Hus-
hands Sensational Forgery Charges.


hands Sensational Forgery Charges.
Lady Taton Sykes is just now the
most talked about woman in all Eng
land. Several circumstances have
united to give her this recent promi-
nenee though in truth she was never
an inconspicuous parsonage, for she is
endowed with both ancient ancestry
and wealth Her husband has a land
ed estate of $4,000 acres and yearly
rent roll of nearly $1,000 Her hus-
band charges that she forged his sig
nature to notes for $4,000 in favor of
Daniel Jay, a notorious money lender,
and the trial has resulted in the broker
aCing non-suited
In addition to these grounded
causes for distinction Lady sykes hos
won a reputation as the most extraya-
CANT female plunger of the century.
She is an adept at every gambling
game known in the drawing rooms ct
fashionable society. AT Monaco and
the other continental resorts she is re-
puted to be high player.
Lady Sykes is IS years old. Her hus-
band is II. At the trial she sWore that
her husband encouraged her 20 gamble
on the stock exchange: that he insisted
on sharing in her winnings, but was
unwilling to make good her losses.
When, on the witness stand, he made
forged his name Lady Sykes smiled i'll
bland pity, declared that her connu-
bal partner was suffering from senile
dementia. and that he had habit of
forgetting to sign his name to paper,
or if he signed them, was in the habit
afterwards of denying his own sigma
ture.
Friends of Sir Tatton declare that he
owes it to society to have his wife
placed in a sanitarium or lunatic asy-
lum, while friends of Lady Sykes, not
a few of whom believe her story. say
that her husband should be put there.
And there you are. 1t is difficult 10
| imagine the extremely elegant Lady
| Sykes, the "smartest'' woman in Lon
| don. in the garb of a female convict.
And yet this is the fate which stares
| her in the face in the event of her
husband making out his case against
/ her.
| Lady Sykes is we'll known TO New
| York society Connected with the FAM
| lily of d. o. Mills by the marriage of
| her brother. Cavendish Benunck, TO
| Miss Livingston, the twin sister of Mrs.
| Ogden Mills, the leader Of the most
/ exclusive, the innermost circle of the
400 gives the entree into The most
exclusive circles of the smart set in
| that city.
On her first visit New York society
! rushed to her shrine and threw open its
/ doors To her Ihat was elgni years
/ ago. The doors had not been open long
before everybody was talking about
Lady Sykes eecentricities. She made
herself conspicuous at balls, at dinners
| at the opera.
She liked America. i'm spite of the fact
that she heard that people We're talking
about her. and again visited New YorF
/ about four years ago. Society was still
| apparently glad to see her. But on hcl
| third visit, last summer when she
made the Waldorf her headquarters. q
| great many doors were closed and theil
! owners looked the other way. Ani
| when society can turn its back on tn,
! daughter of George caVendsh- Ben
/ timex, great granddaughter Of tEt
/ duke OF Portland and a cousin of tht
! present duke. il must be that her &C.
| centricities have reached the border
| land of what in a eommoner would d,
| termed plain insanity. Those who hav,
/ studied this extraordinary woman
| closely declare that she mas lost abso-
| lutely all sense If the value II money
| or financial engagements.