The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-23
WATSON RELATES
 AMERICA LOSS IN FOUR COURTS RUIN
Unconscious Appears in Di- vorce Court When Alleged "Hubby" and Wife Dis-
 pute ChiId's Parentage
nr NoRMAN n. MArsoN

Special Correspondent to The Age-Herald
 (Cooyright 1922. by The AEe-Herald)
 London. July 22.-The destruction of the Four Courts. Dublin. was a severe blow to geneaolosists, par ticuiarly those who specialized In American pedigrees. The extent Of the loss ts not known yet. but 1t seems certain that essential records for a complete history of Ireland were destroyed. All the original wills wers burnt; records of land grants, charters. ancient documents of all kinds, many of which had never been studied, went up in the flames. Chief Justice Maloney has emphasized the American angle; interview:
 Blow to Americans
 Seldom less than score of i'm auirers were to be seen delving in these old records" he says. Irish Americans were always plentiful, and this catastrophe will be a real blow to the American people. who are par ticularly keen about their historical connections. I remember being asked by an American lady when l was at torney general to send her the names of all the Maloney's who emigrated between 1793 and 17e7. with the names of the ships they sailed in"
 Meantime, the efficiency of spirit detectives have been vouched for by pr. Abraham Wallace, London. at the spiritualists' international congress here, but information obtained from them, he adds, impressively, should never be used to send the guilty to the gallows. Spiritualists are op- posed to capital punishment. as well they might be. If your medium is to remain a friend of Little Martha, the Indian maid, who brings tidings from the other world. he can hardly say to her: "Tell me who strangled the three old ladies and I'll get him promptly hangedr After the inci- dent on the scaffold the murderer would certainly migrate to little Eva's country.
 Marriage Dissolved
 The well known unconscious, as was inevitable, has finally appeared in the divorce court. The Hon. John Hugo Russell. son and heir of Lord Ampthill. has petitioned for the dis solution of his marriage with the Hon. Christobel Hulme Russell. His attorney said Russell was accepted by his wife. who was then Miss Hart. in 1917. She broke the engagement almost immediately. explaining that
 
 but year later wired to him that if he still wanted her she would say yes.
 But. he says, she stipulated before the ceremony, that the marriage was never to be consummated. He agreed.
 Their new life was not successful. His attempts to win her were met by rebuffs. he says. nevertheless child was born in 1921. MT. Russell tr. A SA tain unnamed correspondent; Mrs. Russell says that the child is his and so destined to become the heir of Lord Ampthill.
 Unconscious Appears
 At this point the unconscious ap- pears Mir. Russell declares that his wife came to him one day and told him that he walked in his sleep, that one night she had found him, dressed in his pajamas, in the street. Did he remember that? And how she had taken him back to his room and put him back to bed? He did noti
 Well, that proved it, he had been asleepl
 Did he remember coming into her room and making scenes-"hunnish scenes? He decidedly did not. We'll she too, had almost forgotten. "They were such nightmares" he says, she IOIQ n1Ins that Ihe ioAt decided they were really only night mares"
 q asked what was the point of all this," added Russell. land my wife told me that she had been to for tune teller, who said that she had an unhappy married life. and asked did she realize that she was going to have a child?"
 Russell, knowing something doubt less of the mysteries of the uncon- scious Split personalities" etc. thought it all over. Finally he wrote to her: "It Is impossible for both of us to be unaware, but I absolutely beIieverin you and know you are straight and honest person. and think a mistake has been made. and that sou are not going to have a baby"
 The birth of the child convinced him. however. and he decided to sue for divorce. Mrs Russell denies his accusation of misconduct. She has not indicated whether or not she will base her defense on the tenets oi modern psychology.