The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-04

on learning OF the divorce proceedings
Of the countess is responsible.
London. Jan. 1.-THE failure of an
other alliance of the English nobility
with an American woman of wealth
became public yesterday afternoon
when the Countess Of Yarmouth, who
was Alice Thaw of PittsbuTg. a daugh-
ter of Mrs William Thaw and a sister
of Harry X. Thaw, whose second trial
for the murder of Stanford White will
begin next Monday in New York city,
applied to the divorce court for an an
nullment Of her marriage TO the Earl
of Yarmouth
The court has ordered that the pro-
| ceedings be held in camera and the
papers are being kept secret. The
only inkling obtainable of the charges
/ preferred is a statement to the effect
/ that the nature OF the medical evi-
| dence to be given makes a public
| hearing inadvisable.
! The Countess ON Yarmouth is stay
ing at Park Hall. near Evesham, Wor-
| cestershire, a magnificent country seat
| she has leased. decorated and refur-
nished with lavish expenditure. She
! declines to comment on the case. The
| Earl of Yarmouth could not be found
/ in his usual London haunts, and 1T is
| supposed he is on the continent, where
! he spends much of his time.
1t has been we'll known for two
years that the domestic affairs Of the
| hoy hn
earls companions and his manner of
| living were such that he could not
! give his wife the position in society
| she had a right to expect. She sup
/ piled immense sums to defray her hus-
bands eXtravagances, and her friends
say she has conducted herself with
dignity throughout the troubles result
ing from the unhappy marriage and
| her brothers difficulties.
The Hartford family, the head of
which is the Earl of Yarmouth's fam
| lily, and to the head of which the earl
is heir, he being the eldest son of the
sixth Marquis of Hartford, is one OF
the oldest and proudest of the British
nobility. The notoriety brought upon
the family through its indirect con
nection with the Thaw murder case
was CALLING. and this climax to the cid
est sons marriage to Alice ThaW is g
bitter pill. The Warehouses Of Hert
ford, who has stood by her daughter
in-law throughout her troubles and has
exerted herself to reconcile the cou
pie, is Frustrated with grief.
The countess herself has suffered
from the strain of the past year Hel
friends advised her to remain in Eng
land until after the divorce proceed
ings, but the countess desires to re
turn to the United States for he
r brothers second trial, and is undecid
! ed which course she will pursue.
Last summer on the advice Of Mr.
and Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie he
brother-in-law and sister who wer
: with her two months. the counties
:. decided to seek the aid of the divorce
courts 1t was intended TO defer thi
action until the second Thaw trial II
New York but the delay in bringing
: the case to trial led to a change 0
+ plans. When the countess returne
:, to England after the trial of her broth
er. she received a cold reception. no
l only from re earl. but from all tn
/ members of his family except tn
d Marchioness of Hartford, his mother
y, and the couple have seen little of eac
other since that time. On VIVA
grounds the countess bases her clair
for the notification Of the marriage I
the earl is not stated in the paper
filed thus far with the court, but Their
Il has been much talk of the earl's d.
e ings on the continent. where he sHend
o the greater part Of his time