The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-21
LORD HALDANE ACTED
ON OWN AUTHORITY

sack. where he will receive double his
former salary. IL has been made i'm
Possible for him to Interfere any fur
In the capable hands of Sir Edward
Grey. Moreover. II was strictly nee
essary for the King to remove from
state. in order to emphasize in Ger
man eyes the governments dsapprov-
al OF his act.
Sir Edward Greys patience has all
ready ere this been severely taxed by
the oficious private negotiations of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lloyd
George. and Winston Churchill, now
tlrst lord OF the Admiralty. The some
what humiliatinG punishment which he
has caused to be inflicted upon Lord
Haldane Will probably put a stop to
such attempts. and at the same time
vastly diminish Lord Haldanes politi-
,aI innuence, by removing him from
tne immediate encourage of the King,
since Secretaries OF State have to con-
fer almost daily with their sovereign.
whereas no never sees the Lord High
ohanceiior, save on some great State
Conscience
Sir Lionel Garden. British Minister
TO Central America. who is stopping
in Washington for n few days. on his
way to his new post. is married to a
Brookiynite, who was Miss Anne Eliza
lenerts. OF. Flatbush He has seen a
good deal OF service as Il diplomat, In
Mexico. Cuba and Guatemala III. was
appointed Vice Consul at Havana In
1877. promoted to Consulship in the
city OF Mexico in 1855. and after fllinc
Other positions, became British Minis
ter resident at Guatemala in 1906
He is the nephew of that John Car
oen VINO was popularity known as
'Woodcock" Garden. owing to the mum :
Der OF times that he had been fred
at by disseminated tenants on his Bar
name estates. In Tipperary. 1t was he
VINO falling violently in love with a
relative, Miss Eleanor Arbuthnot, then
STAYING with her sister. viscountess
Cough. at tho latter's country seat.
Rathronan House. near Clonmel, be-
came almost the victim Of a tragedy
Miss Arbuthnot declined young Car
den's offer OF marriage, but instead of
realizing that his attentions were dis
tasteful. no conceived the foolish idea
that she really reciprocated his atfec-
ton but was prevented ~ her friends
from accepting his proposals. So he
planned an abduction when she was
returning with her sister. Lard Cough.
from church. The preparations which
ne made were on the most elaborate
scale. He had arranged relays OF
horses between Templemore and Gal
way, nifty miles away, and in Galway
he mad a vessel with steam up. ready
to convey himself and his expected
The attempt. however. failed. thanks
to the vigorous resistance of the ladies'
and of a peasant, John McGrath. who
ran to their assistance. John Garden
took TO flight. but was overtaken.
captured by an armed posse, who for
a wonder. did not kill him, tried at
the Tippcrary Assizes in 1854 and sem
fenced to two years Imprisonment, un-
der the old Irish law. enacted in 1854.
for Furnishing such as carried away
maidens that be inheritors." Adbuctors
In those days used to put the girl be-
fore them on the horse instead of be-
hind. In order that they might claim
that 1t was she who had taken tho
lead in the abduction, and tina, II was
they who had been carried off by her
instead of she by them. John McGrath,
rs n reward for thus coming to the
rescue of Lady Cough and Miss Ar
buthnot. was granted n position in
the inland revenue service. from which
he retired on pension somewhere
about the year 1898. and died four
years ago.
Copyright, 1912. by the Brentwood
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