"BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 87, 24 August 1868, Page 3

"BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER."

' » The famo of Madamo Haohol i« already world-wide, hut recent dlncUmurc» oxlilbil/ an audacity on lior part ahno/U fliibllme, and v degree of. lmboollo credulity on Urn pun of one of her dupou Unit affords 1111 adinlrablo companion picture to tlio chro of Mrs Lyon. Tho talc dlvulgod last week ut tho Marlborough Poilco Court hliowh that thoroaro doptliN of human gullibility qulto unfathomable. Mrs Hornuialle, a woman well adyancwl in yearn and wrinkle*, dopoHOH that in 1800 nho (.'iillod on Miuluimi Hucliiuil, for tho purpose (if being inudu " beautiful for over," Hlio wan told that that It would bo i\ costly prooonH, and iiifto that if hlio did not mind further paying heavily, an advantugeoun matrimonial alliance might bo arranged for her, Then followed what Mr» Horrodallu'ii couiimcl truly said wan almost Inorcdiblo. I 'l'liti widow advanced XI0i)0, lined tlio proscribed ooHincllcM, and took halliti at a piutlotdar lioiino, After oho had done wo oho was told that tho bittlt hlio had entered wan so eotiHtructed that llioho within could ho neon through crevlcea, and that In thlfl way a noblo- | man had hcon permitted to ohflurvo her, wan hiiilUcii with her chantm, and wad impatlciiit to marry hor, liiHtuad of rGHotitlng hucli trcatiiiciit aa an oiitr/igo upon her hox, tho frail woman wan taken in hy tho cliunny ntory, and had an interview with a porflon who porflonatod LurA Raiioliißh. Sho afterwardA onlniHiH Madamo Huchol with ono lar^o mm after another for tho uhc of thin romantic inamorata, £12(10 were paid for diamond!) to adorn a coronut, which wore returned with a penalty of XI OO, hut the money wan novcr ditittorgwl hy Madamo Jiachel. Next him buys a iroimcau which In iient for her to iho aaino obliglnK friend, and in r.ovcr nccn apln. Other flimin «o tho protwidcd Lord Itanolauh for volunteering purpoHCfi( and altogether who if* piundcr<Hi of hoiiio XMOOU hy tho conm>iralorH, Awaking at leiiHtli from her delusion, hor love and confldonco woro dhangod to lmto mid rcvengo, and nho linn commenced a proHccution iif;iUiiHt Mudamo Ilaohaol for coiiflpiraoy and fraud. Tlio women decorator had to find, flubntantlul bail, Lord Hanclagh l», of courflo, perfectly innocent of. any complicity in Iho vllo doeoptlon, Tlio hearing of tho chnrgo apliiHt Madamo liachul was ronumed on I'ucauay, Mrs Horrodallo waongaln examined, and in tlioconrno of hot* evidence inado Homo oxtraordlnary 9t(Vtomcntß, Bho declared poßltlvcly that Lord lianolagh, who was in court, \v«h tho gtmtioman to whom oho was Introduced by Madamo Hachcl in 1800, and fcho adhered to thU through a long and searching oroßß-oxaniinu-tlon at the handfl of Mr Dlgby Hoymour, llm lordnliln'fl namo was also introduced Into a pasHiigo in tho wltnefls'o previous Jiiulory, wherein her husband watt represented M having nlaln a man in a dud In conooquouoo of tho intimacy between tho murdorod innn and Mm Uorrodailo. Tho further hearing of. Hie caoo was again adjourned i Lord Haneln^h repeating what ho had already Btatcd, (l that

ho had nothing what&vor lo da with iho ciuio." To this Mr Seymour, the leading counsel for MTiukiuo Itnoliul, replied, tli.it " no tnombor o£ Lord Uanolagh'a fumily nocd lilusli for any part that lilt lord»hlp lmcl taken In tho affair."