The Washington times., 1922-08-27

had found her husband sleep walking.
MRS. RUSSELL presume he was
sleep walking. passed him outside the
door Of Curzon street in his pajamas in
mid-Winter. He said he had no recollec-
ton of it, so it confirmed my conviction
that he was sleep walking. He was not
completely unconscious, and / saw him
back to his bed. He was always very
vague.
Odd you speak to him?
Al said, "Hullo"' or something of
that sort He did not answer.
Q.-Did he follow you upstairs obed-
iently?
.A-Perfectly. His eyes were open and
he appeared to see things. He did not
stumble in any way. l led him to his
room and he went to sleep straightaway.
Q.-Has this story of the sleep walking
anything in the world to do with the
child?
A.-When was talking to my husband
on that subject we both agreed that we
could not account for the baby in any
other way: From what know it is high
ly improbable, but at the time it was the
only explanation.
Q.-Your husband, in a letter
on the subject, said: "Life at No.
(Curzon street) with a mad hus-
band must have been simply awful.
can only say l don't know any
thing about it at all. If only you
had told me l would have pad
- locked myself in my room rather
than such things should have hap
pened."
A.-Yes.
The correspondent, Lieutenant
~ Bradley, told the court that before
Mrs. Russell was married, he was
IN love with her, and they travelled
by night train to Edinburgh with
the object of becoming man and
wife, but on arrival they found
they could not be married.
Their engagement was broken
- off about a fortnight afterward.
When he knew the lady was mar
ried to brother-officer he put all
thoughts of love on one side. He
had never kissed her since she was
married.
He mentioned the occasion when Mrs.
Russell lost the latchkey of the flat where
she and her husband lived.
AS she came to witness's fiat in the
middle of the night, he made bed up on
two chairs and Mrs. Russell occupied his
bed
Next morning they explained the situa-
ton quite frankly to her husband.
Reverting to their friendship prior to
the lady's marriage, he said he was never
quite sure, until they went to Edinburgh,
whether he was engaged to her or not.
Lieutenant Cross, now twenty-three and
married, described journey to Calais on
the occasion of his second visit to Paris
with Mrs. Russell, the trip having been
discussed with her husband at dance.
Owing to some mistake by the hotel
porter in London they occupied the same
sleeping compartment in the train.
When they found what the conditions
were they made it an ordinary railway
compartment and lay down fully clothed.
He said he saw other people behaving
in the same way with her "just like a
happy family"
Mrs. Blanche Anstruther Hart, widow
of Colonel Hart, and mother of Mrs. Rus
sell, said her daughter had led a very
independent life.
Witness used to have large parties at
Broadhurst, in Sussex, the house fire.
quently being full of men and women.
Some of them had to sleep in a shake
down and some over the stables.
After a trial lasting three weeks the
jury found that there had been no mis-
conduct with either of the men named as
correspondents, but they disagreed on the
question whether there had been miscon-
duct with man unknown.
It therefore remains uncertain whether
the poor baby, who, in the ordinary
course of events will inherit the peerage
of Lord Ampthill, is the son of his father
or not.