ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 69, 10 April 1882, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

A novel case is before the San *«w*co Courts, in which a confiding woman, namea Mrs Etria Bennett, is the prosecutor. Two female sharpers— mother and d au § nt . e^~"P.r " suaded her that the Duke of Leicester^ who they, raid was travelling incog, in California, had Been her, fallen desperately in love with her, and wished to make her his wife. The deluded woman gave t^ pair her confidence and they managed to do her out of !a large amount of personal property. Hereyeß were onened when the Duke did not turn up, and Sow she sues her deluders as common young unmarried women have sent a long petition to Congress, numerously signed asking the Government to let them and their ■ religion alone. In this petition, the signers say :— " We, the young ladies of Utah Territory, do most solemnly and truthfully declare that neither we, nor our mothers are held in bondage, but that we enjoy the greatest possible freedom, socially and religiously ; that our homes are happy ones, and that we are neither low nor degraded ; for the principles of purity, virtue, integrity, and- loyalty to the Government of the United States have been instilled into our minds and hearts, since our earliest childhood." The married women also sent a petition to the effect that they are happy ia their homes, satisfied with their marriage relations, and desire no change. A memorial from the Mormon citizens genersUy declares that the object of the present antagonistic movements from outside is "persecution and robbery of the inhabitants of Utah, utter ruin of her bright prospects, and ultimate anarchy and slavery, under tbe plea of suppressing polygamy." Rowell withdrew from the pedestrian contests in New York on tbe 3rd instant. Hughes " rushed " the " little Englishman, as he called him, so unmercifully at the outset as to force him into retirement. Hughes knew he was destroying his own chances of success, but sacrificed himself in order to break up Rowell, and succeeded. He compelled Rowell on the first day to cover over 150 miles in a little over 22 hours. • George Scoville, Guiteau's brother-in-law, has dropped all legal connection with the case. This is the result, not only of unpleasantness almost amounting.to a quarrell but of an opinion held by the prisoner's relation-B that Scoville's legal abilities are not of the best order. John Gaiteau has announced the discovery of important evidence in regard to insanity, and will endeavour to get a new trial. Ben Jßutler, it is said, has consented to undertake the case.