ELOPEMENT, SUICIDE, AND DIVORCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 96, 26 April 1894, Page 4

ELOPEMENT, SUICIDE, AND DIVORCE.

A well-known raembor of the Irish Bar, Mr Arnold Graves, petitioned in tho Dublin Courts recently for a divorco from his wife Cor.6tanoe, for adultery. Tho respondent did loC appear. Tho facts woro most painful. Mr Graves met his wife, whose maidou .name was Wetherby, early in 1880, and an intimacy epraug up betweou thbm. She wae then in the ti'Uyly Carte Opera Company in a subordinate position, and he knew nothing about her provious history. They were married iv the church of St. Mary, Wbiteohapel, London, 1881, residing afterwards in eevoral places in Dublin. Ihere were five children of the marriage, ouo of whom had died. Some yeaißago Mr Graves formed the acquaintance of the late Mr Kichard Fan-ell while they were both living at Bray. Mr Farrell was of artistic and musioal tastes, hko Mrs Graves, By the death of his motfier at the end of 1891 or the beginning of 1892 ho became worth about £2000 a year. Mr Graves, in couscqueuco of au unlbrtuuato Bpeculatiou and his wife's extravagance, got into difficulties, and obtained au ad* vauce from Mr Farrell to tho amount of £1400, for which ho gave a policy of insuruueo 011 his life ns security. The iact that he obtained this loan was to him a sourcoof bitter regrofc. While Mr J'arre 1 whs staying ia their house on July 27th, 1893, ho found that Farrell waß his wife's lover. To avoid ecandal they separated quietly, and ho allowed her £3 a week ou condition that she should havo nothing further to do with Farrell. She, however, eloped from Dubliu to i-uglond with Farrell, mid they, resided at various places, the respondent becoming a mother. Mr Fiuvoll left the respondent at St. Leonards, and proceeded to London, where he committed suicide by Shooting bimsell in Margaret-street, Marylebone. Mrs Graves, the respondent, had repre. seated to her landlady that ho was her brother, but his identity was disoloEed by the respondent reading the fiibb itews ol hiß suioide iv au oveuiug paper. She then tried to commit* suicide herself by jumping out of the window, and after, wards she telegraphed to her husband iv her extremity, swoaring solemnly that 6ho had not been untrue to him. Tho court granted a divorce, and tho casa Mill be taken to the House of Lords to havo tho marriage dissolved.