Lady Colin Campbell's Separation Suit.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 October 1884, Page 5

Lady Colin Campbells Separation Suit.

In the Court of Appeal Lord Justice Baggallay has finally confirmed the decision by which Sir James Hannen and a special jury granted Lady Colin Campbell a judicial separation from her loi'd. A sorry subject for joy, to be ridded of a husband ! So one might suppose at first sight, but to anyone who is familiar with this especial suit the reasons for jubilation over a legal separation are not far to find. The day before his marriage Lord Colin told his bride that he had an illness, which he attributed to a fever he had caught the year before, and which, he said, might necessitate her living rather as a nurse than a wife during the first few months of their married life. Little did the lady suspect the true significance of these -words, but when later she loft him, and charged him with "cruelty," and the medical evidence sustained her charge, he suffered the "indelible disgrace" of suggesting that he had warned her of his state, and that she married him with her eyes open, Not a ghost of a Campbell was in Court to hear the final decision — perhaps fortunately, for the voice of Justice Baggallay quavered as he spoke of the indignity which had been offered to a young and beautiful woman, and through her to all her S6x. Lady Colin 's father was in Court, and he wept when he heard the irrevocable and happy close of the case. As for Lady Colin herself, she was among her beloved poor at Nine Elms at the time, and had the intelligence of her triumph borne to her — no astral body being at hand — in a telegram which consisted of the single word " Hurrah." It was the third anniversary of her wedding day, and perhaps the next happiest of her life to that.

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