AN EDINBURGH SCANDAL.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 103, 19 October 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN EDINBURGH SCANDAL.

(From the North Briton.) We alluded lately to a disgraceful circumstance, in which a military officer of high rank, resident in this city, was the chief actor ; and, as the affair has been, by a recent circumstance, again brought betore the public, we meed haVe no hesitation in stating what we know about it, but without, in the meantime, giving any names. As we stated before, the persons inculpated are a married military officer of soitt? standing and an unmarried lady of great personal atti-actions, the daughter) it is said, of a gentleman who held a situation as a tutor in a family in the north of Scotland, and who married his employer's widow. The particulars " of the faint pas, so. far as we have been able to^gather them, are as follows i— The lady of the gallant son of Mars, an attractive and accomplished woman, had, it seems, for sonre time back suspected her husband of being unfaithful to his marriage vows, and in order to be at rest on that point she engaged the services of a well-known detective to watch his outgoings and incomings, and also to keep an eye on the doings of the young lady, who lived in Inverleith-row. The officer (of police) had gr.at difficulty in fiuding sufficient evidence, for law purposes, of the amorous propensity of the "gay son of Mars," but was at last, after a lengthened vigil, successful in his mission. Having traced .the gay Lothario to a well-known garden in the Stockbridge suburb of the city^ he at once saw that the purport of his visit ■was to meet a lady who had preceded him on the ground. What then took place will doubtless be speedily made public, as, we understand, the outraged wife has placed her case in the hands of an eminent consistoriae lawyer, with a view to suing out a divorce, and notwithstanding the rumour of her having ■ forgiven the naughty Colonel, and condoned his offence, the case for a separation will go on. In the meantime a near relative,— in fact, the step-brother ; of the young lady, who holds an importaut office connected with the organization of our Volunteers-Shaving heard the rumors which were afloat in connexion with this very flagrant case of seduction, immediately started off to England, where "the victim' 1 of the officer is at present residing* obtained at interview with her, and was successful in persuading her to give up a couple of letters which she had received from her seducer, one signed and ihe other without a signature. Armed with these, and accompanied with some friends, one a General of the army, another a major of Volunteers) and a well known philanthropic baronet of this city, he repaired immediately to the New Club in PrinCess-street) and at once sent for the delinquent. Upon his arrival he was shown the letters, and after some hesitation acknowledged their authorship, Whereupon the valiant Volunteer officer proceeded to administer to hinr an exceedingly sound thrashing) accom- 'a panied by some indignities that the I "gallant* gentleman will not soon! forget. During the scuffle the Colonel j contrived to burn the letters. .It is rumored that since then the officer has i been ordered Under arrest* As the whole affair will so speedily come before the Divorce Court, we. do not require at present to say any more about it*