A CHORUS GIRL WANTS DAMAGES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7397, 21 June 1895, Page 2

A CHORUS GIRL WANTS DAMAGES.

If the oase of Miss "Birdie " Sutherland, a chorus girl in the Gaiety Theatre, against Dudley Churohill Majoribanks, the eldest eon of Baron Tweedmouth, for breach of promise, ever comes to trial, it will (aocordiDg to a London despatch of May 18) be the most sensational affair Biuce Miss Fortescue, the actress, won £10,000 from Lord Garmoyle on a similar charge. Miss Sutherland is very handsome, being nearly six feet tall, and only eighteen years old. Her real name is Annie Louise Watkins. She first met Dudley Majoribanks at the Prinoe of Wales' Club. It was a case of love at first sight. He proposed, and was accepted. When hia parents learned of the affair, they were very rauoh disturbed. Mr Majoribanks went to Canada on a -visit with his mother to the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada. The young mac did not return with his mother to England, but remained in Canada, and the matoh.was broken off. Miss Sutherland then placed the oase in the hands of a well-known theatrioal lawyer, who retained in her behalf Sir Edward Clark, who dei fen_ed'Oßoar.Wilde in his reoent trial. Me 0. J. Gill, who against Wilde on behalf of the Treasury, and ssveral other legal lights have also been retained.