The Camp bell Divorce Case.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2032, 10 December 1886, Page 2

The Camp bell Divorce Case.

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES. Specials to Sydney Evening News and Evening Post. London, November 26. The hearing of the divorce suit instituted between Lord Co.in Campbell and his wife commenced to-day. The peti. tion of Lady Campbell apnlying for a divorce against her husband was first taken. Sir Charles Russell opened tho case on behalf of the wife, and stated that from the outset the relations between her and Sir Colin Campbell had been of the most ud fortunate nature. He averred that in consequence of her husband’s conduct, Lady Campbell a very shnir time after her marriage obtaiued a judta cia! separation, and Lord Campbell vowed vengeance against her, and spared neither money nor social influence to ruin h s wife, and cast slur 3 against her character. When in Paris, lie tried to induce tha police to arrest his wife as a woman of immoral character, although she was living a spotless life with her mother. Lady Miles gave evidence showing tho existence of immoral relations between Lord Campbell and a housemaid, Watson, ['he discovery had been kept secret until her ladyship was maligned, The cate has been adjourned. Auckland, Dec. 8. A special cable message to the Sy d >py Evening News, dated London. 29th November, says the Cimpbeli divorce suit was resumed this morning. It wbb decided on Saturday last that the counter petition should be inquired into concurrently, and upon this decision being finally announce 1, the (leading counsel for Lord Colin Campbell began his address in support of His Lnrdsiiip’s petition, and replied to the charge that had been alleged against his client by Sir Cbas. Russell, leading counsel for Lady Colin Campbell. Mr Findlay’s address to the Coart lasted through the whole of Saturday and occupied the greater portion of to-day (Monday). After dealing one by ono with the oharges that had been made against Lord Cainphoi), and, as Mr Findlay said,purged the character of his client from the elandors that hid becu laid against him, the leaned counsel procseded to indicate the evidence that would be produced ip support of Lord Coiin’s petition for divorce, and said that he had uo hesitation in saying that the evidence would prove bey >rd doubt that Lady Campbell was not tha chaste woman she would have tho Court and the world believe. He should ii- said he able to prove diat she had b;en guilty of the gross s charges that could be made against a woman ami wife. Mr Findlay concluded his powerful, scathing and eloquent address by saying that the charges that had been made against Lord Campbell were the result of an infamous and vindicative conspiracy to cover with filth the escutcheon of one of the most honorable families in tho United Kingdom, aye, or the wide world. This forensic onslaught he followed with a fiery peroration in which he described Lady Colin Campbell and Lady Mills as shameless womenThe question of the judicial separation was then gone into, and Mr Findlay contended that th* order was not legil. and that if legal, the allegations then made against Lord Colin Campbell were not sufficient to warrant such an order being made, The Judge, however, * ruled that the order was leg 1 and that the ground* for the order were sufficiently couolusive. Medical evidence was then cdled to rebut the statement made by Lady Mills as to the unchastity of one of his Lordship’s housemaids, a young woman named Watson. Watson was called and denied that any act of familiarity had ever taken place between herself and Lord Colin Campbell, The witness was subjected to a severe cross-extmination, the effect of which was to considerably nullify the value of her evidence. The inquiry was then adjourned until Wednesday morning.