A Cruel Scandal.

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 796, 31 March 1894, Page 7

A Cruel Scandal.

Theke has been much talk in town during the last seven or eight weeks concerning the domestic troubles of a certain individual well-known in the boot and shoe line and his wife. It was a common report for a time that divorce proceedings were in contemplation, and the name of a wellknown medical man was freely associated with the story as the probable corespondent. Then, the report was circulated and believed, too, by many people that the doctor in question had paid .£ISOO to stay proceedings.

It appeared to us to be a scandalous thing that any man, be he doctor or otherwise, should betray the confidence reposed in him as medical adviser by tempting a woman from the path of virtue and thus wrecking the happiness of a home which he was free to enter in his professional capacity, and we resolved to investigate the case patiently with a view to the exposure and condemnation of the offender.

We have done so. But our enquiries have satisfied us beyond a doubt that a shameful and cruel use of the doctor's name has been made in connection with this matter. It is true that domestic differences, now, happily, healed, did exist between the man and his wife, but it is quite untrue that the medical man in question is in any way concerned in them. Of this we have seen unimpeachable proofs, and we also have it on the assurance of the husband. As a consequence of a quarrel between the husband and wife, the latter was seized with an illness and the doctor was, unfortunately for him, called in to attend her. This is the only way in which he was connected with the unhappy 8-ffair. We have become acqnainted with the cause of the quarrel between the couple, and even it is by no means such a serious matter as oommon report would have us believe. We have pnblished these facts from a Bimple sense of fair play. Free use has been made of the dootor's name by scandal-mongers, but we have fully satisfied ourselves thatlthe story, as far as he is concerned, is a malignant falsehood.