MRS LANGTRY'S AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
A despatch from San Francisco, dated August 19, to the New York Tribune, says : — The citizenship of Mrs Langtry received a damaging blow this morning, when Justice Field, in the United States Circuit Court, talked plainly about her case and declared that the method Adopted in her naturalisation was irregular and Invalid. He had been oonsidering the matter of the application of Mrs Langtry, and was not satisfied with it. He spoke of the manner in whioh Mrs Langtry had been favored by having the books of the Court taken to her house that Bhe might, it is presumed, avoid publicity. Thiß, Justice Field thought, was an irregular proceeding, and as suck he condemned it. The right of citizen* ship was one of the most important whioh the people of the people of this country possessed, and it must not be jeopardised or cheapened by opening the doors to fraud, which the carting of Court records about the country would entail. The Justice said that in consequence of this action he had grave doubts as to the validity of Mrs Langtry's application to become a citizen; No positive action wm taken by the Justice, but it was the general opinion of lawyers present that Mrs Langtry would have to take out her papers in the regular way'
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West Coast Times, Issue 6624, 31 October 1887, Page 4
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