THE DILKE CASE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5795, 17 January 1887, Page 2

THE DILKE CASE.

The Figaro publishes a very bright and amusing account of an interview with Sir Charles Dilk«, who, with Lady Dilke, is passing a few d&ys in Paris, shopping and visiting theatres. Figaro describes Sir Charles Dilke as the handsomest and most aristocratic-looking man that can be ima r gined, and who would have made " physically a superb Emperor of Russia," and speaks of Lady Dilke as one of the prettiest women in England. The Figaro cor* respondent says that Sir Charles spoke at length abont the late trial, and with a dignity that won the deepest sympathy for the speaker. The interview ended as follows :— " Sir Charles begged me not to give as coming from him information that I possess about the trial. I will conform to his desire. I will only say what I know de source certaine, and what neither the press nor English society know, namely, that m a few months the grand CrawfordDilke case will re-open. This trial, the most Ecandalous of the century in England, is about to enter its third act A number of Sir Charles's friends, without his knowledge or initiative, made a most Ihorongh investigation, with a result which the public will Boon learn with the greatest amazement. I can affirm that these friends of Sir Charles, among whom are statesmen, lawyers, physicians, and Cabinet Ministers, are on the track of a conspiracy that will make the Press of the entire world re-echo with excitement. This third trial will also abound and overflow with the most revolting details, but it will give an opportunity to one of the ablest aDd most accomplished men of modern times to emerge with a his?h head and a bold front from the black pit of infamy into which he has been cast by a conspiracy add accusations that he hitherto has not been able to resent." Mrs Virginia Crawford, who was one of the defendants in the Crawf ord-Dilke case proposes to make her debut in comedy shortly at a West End Theatre.