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PRISONERS' ANTECEDENTS. A groat sensation, was caused in Car- diff on Tuesday night by the announce- ment of the arrest of two well-known residents. Dr. W. P. Brooks, of Con- stellation-«treet. Cardiff, and Arthur Stamton Price, a chemist, ca-yrying on business at 27, Portmanmoor-road, the Moors, Cardiff, were taken into custody durlhg the even- ing on a charge of being concerne.d in an attempt to perform an illegal operation upon Gwladys Harris, aged about fifteen. of Aberbargoed, Monmouth- shire. The arreete were effected by Detective- sergeant Davey—of the doctor near his surgery about five o'clock in the afternoon, and of Arthur Stanton Price at hie shop about seven p.m. Prisoners were taken to Roath Polioe-etation, where they were charred and detained. Application for bail was mode, and refused owing to the seriousness of the charge. Dr. Brooks was very agitated and distressed in his cell at Roath Police-station on Tues- day night, and resented his arrest very strongly, asserting, "I am an innocent man. Gwladys Harris, a well-developed girl of fifteen, became acquainted with Price rather more than two years ago, when her father, although a master mason by trade, was keep- ing a draper's shop at No. 29, Portmanmoor- road. Price became on intimate terms w^th the family. When, about two years ago, they moved to Aberbargoed, where Mr. Harm now has a business in Commercial-road, the friendly relations continued. During the last twelve months Miss Harris has several times visited 27, Portmanmoor-road, where Price has been living alone, except that a young servant girl came to the house every day to perform the domestic duties. Some three or four months ago Miss Harris found that she was enceinte, and it is alleged that she communicated this fact to Price. Then, about the beginning of last month, according to the case for the prosecution, he wrote to her asking her to come to see him, apd she visited him at Portmanmoor-road without the knowledge of her parents. Dr. Brooks has had a consulting-room in Price's premises. Miss Harris, it is said, was away from home for a few days, amd her parents, having no knowledge of her whereabouts, reported her absenoa to the Tredegar police. They made inquiries, but without sucoess. Meanwhile, it is stated, the girl was staying in rooms which Price had obtained for her in Tin-street, Roath, and there, according to the prosecution, the operation having proved unsuccessful, an endeavour was made to induce her to submit to a second. However, she refused, amd returned to her parents. For a day or two she did not tell them where she had been, but even- tually admitted that she had stayed at Car- diff. Her father then oommunicated with Mr. Harold Lloyd, of Cardiff, and inquiries were made, which have resulted in the arrest of the two prisoners. Dr. W. P. Brooks, who has been in practice in Constellation-street, is about 36 or 37 years of age, and is a member of a family well known in the Rhondda. Valley. For a short time he studied at Treforest for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but, abandoning the idea of entering the Church when about twenty years of age, he commenced the study of medi- cine with Dr. Howard Davies, of Pontypridd. From there he went to London, where he studied at the Charing Cross Hospital. He eventually qualified in 1895 MJR.C.S. and L.R.C.P. About nine years ago he came to Cardiff and established an extensive practice on the East Moors. About 1898 he was elected a member of the Cardiff Board of Guardians, and was an active member of that body for about two years. In 1900 he sold his practice to Dr. J. J. Hill, a well-known Cardiff Irish- man, and went to Senghenydd, where he rendered valuable service in the colliery explo- sion which occurred not long afterwards. He also practised in Swansea, and was for a time in Yorkshire, wfoenoe he returned to Cardiff several months ago. He was married about sixteen years ago to a Miss Mineahan, M Cardiff. Arthur Stanton Price, the chemist, a man of about 30 yof age, is a native of Rowfey R-egis, near Birmingham. Here he qualified a* a, chemist, and subsequently gained a certificate which entitled him to practise midwifery. He came to Cardiff about two or three years ago, and was in business in Canton before opening a shop in the name of "A. S. Price and Co." at 27, Port- manmoor-road, where he has had an exten- sive connection. Previous to this he was in business in Bath. While there he was an active member of the Volunteers. He was known as a good shot, and served in the South African war. His Neighbours and friends know him as a. man of pleaeant and quiet manners, bttt very reserved about his own affairs. He has one child, about six years old.

ALLEGED ROBBERY. SEQUEL TO ELDON-STREIDT CARD PARTY. David Rees, 29, Arthur Rees, 24, Thomas Gorman, 28, and Philip Williams, 30, were brought up at Cardiff Police-oourt on Thurs- day. charged, on remand, with breaking and entering the dwelling-house, No. 28, Eldon- road, and stealing from the occupier (Nellie White) 3s. 5d. in silver and bronze, a lady's eighteen-carat gold watch, a long gold chain, gold eafety-pin, small gold padlock, and a pack of playing cards, value together £ 20 3s. lid. There was a further charge of stealing about C4 in gold, a gentleman's silver keyless watch, and a nine-carat gold chain, value in all at about L8 10s., the possessions of Charles Thomas, some time between 1 p.m. and 5.50 p.m. on April 26. Mr. George David appeared for Williams, and Mr. Morgan Rees for Gorman. The other two were undefended. The hearing occupied a long time. The evidence, in brief, showed that Nellie White and Thomas live together. On the night of April 25 they were invited to some festivities at a house in the vicinity, and remained there playing cards for most of the night. Be- tween seven and eight they took their depar- ture. White went home. Thomas adjourned to the Craddock Hotel, where he remained until close upon one o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th. Then he went home to rest, and left his clothes in the bedroom, with the money and some of the lady's jewellery in his pocket. When he woke a little after five the money and jewellery were missing. In cross-examination. Thomas admitted that he had been drinking a good deal, and had lost a lot of money with a book he had made on Ely Races. A lad named Sherman swore that he saw Gorman pushing the door and forcing it open about five o'clock on the 26th. Gorman and the two Reeses went in. and Williams stayed outside and looked up and down. The boy applied his eye to the key-hole, and saw Gorman take a dish out of the oven, and the others laid plates on the table and sat around. Mr. Rees (clerk): What did you do?—I went to the football match. Mr. Rees: Did you think they were doing anything wrong?—Yes, when I heard them swearing. Detective Young, who arrested prisoners and received their replies denying the alle- gations, said he found theq lock of the front door forced off, and that, of course, gave access to the whole of the premises. Mr. David submitted that there was no evidence against Williams. Mr. Rees argued similarly for his client, adding that nothing was found upon the prisoners, and that a jury would not con- vict either one of them. The Magistrates sent the case for triaJ, and accepted bail, each in £ 50 and one surety in JE50, or two in C25.

A NEW STEAMER MISSING. MAIDEN VOYAGE FROM CARDIFF TO THE FAR EAST. The long-delayed "posting" of the steamer Claverdale took place &t Lloyd's on Wedces. day, and she has now joined the long list of missing ships. The Claverdale was a new vessel, commanded by Captain E. G. Thomas a native of South Wales, and carried a crew of 27 hands. Launched last year by Messrs. Priestman, of Sunderland, she underwent her trials, and afterwards was sent round to Cardiff, there to load coal for the Elast. At the end of September she left Barry Dock with a full cargo, her destination being nominally Hong Kong. but it was generally known that the captain had instructions to run the Vladivostok blockade. Nothing definite has been heard of the Claverdale since she left Hong Kong on November 23, although there have been various reports a-nd rumours. The most circumstantial report, however, was that received from Yokohama, to the effect that one of the Claverdale'e boats had been found in the Sea of Japan, latitude 40 N., longitude 140 E. There was no sign of the crew. It is a long time since a loss attracted so much atten- tion, probably because the vessel was abso- lutely new and on her maiden voyage, and had a valuable cargo, which, we believe, means a loss of L80,000 to the underwriters. There is really no hope that the Claverdale has been captured by the Japanese, as the Mikado's Government has always given early information of f-uoh captures. The Claverdale was a steel screw steamer of 4,023 tons, and wae owned by Messrs. £ Hafilekaxst and 0a» BilUtorvtvet. BjQ*

TO THE RESCUE. i

A HUSBAND'S CRUELTY TO HIS WIPE, j ^voroe Court on Wednesday Mrs. Maud le Claire Fowle was granted a decree nisi and the custody of two children of the marriage on the j cruelty and misconduct of her husband, Captain Henry Walter Hamil- ,n lowle, of the Militia. Petitioner com- IM&ined of a long course of cruelty on the part of her husband, and spoke to intimacy with a young lady who was referred to as fr^.re^°?(*,en;fc paid visits to Klondyke and. South Africa on business, and during a penod of his absence Mrs. Fowle supported herself by keeping a, tea shop in the City. Counsel described the cruelty as of the most extraordinary kind, amounting in one in- stance to little less than wilful torture.

HUSBAND'S ADMISSIONS. ———* <R" Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane, in the Divorce Court, London, dealt "with the petition of Mrs. Amelia Mary Wood for the dissolution of her marriage on the ground of the mis- conduct and desertion of fc<?r husband, Mr. James George Elliott WootV The marriage took and the parties lived together fc&!>r«ly uutil' 1901, when the respondent went to South Africa. On his return, said Mr. Barnard, he appeared to have treated his wife badly, and finally, in Septehber of that year, to have turned her out of doors. In October, 1904, Mrs. Wood wrote to her husband asking him to return to her, amd to let by-gones be by-gones. In reply the husband wrote that it was quite impossible for him to return. He admitted her accusation as to misconduct. He wrote again on November 19:— Dear Amy,—If you really mean to divorce me, you can get evidence of my having made furious love by going to the Grosvenor Hotel. In the visitors' book you will see that Mr. and Mrs. G. Wood in 1901 occupied rooms in the hotel. If you are curious enough to know what we ate and drank, ask and see my bill. I don't want detectives following me about all over the pLaoe; they only cost money. After evidence had been given, a decree nisi, with costs, was granted.

LADY ARTIST'S PETITION. In the Divorce Court, London, Mrs. Grace Dundas Hamilton Curphey, an artist, peti- tioned for and obtained an order for the restitution of conjugal rights, her husband being Sr. Alfred George Curphey, a sur- veyor. It was stated by Mr. Willock, who appeared for the petitioner, that the parties were married in June, 1893, at Sutton, Surrey, the lady being a Miss Souttar-Robinson, while the husband was in a tairly good position in London. They lived happily until the husband became infatuated with a married lady he met five or six years ago. Mrs. Curphey did everything in her power to induce the respondent to give up the lady, but without success. A cottage was taken at Twyford in 1902, 'where the petitioner pursued her painting studies. The husband used to come down at the end of the week, but in September, 1903, he ceased to come, assigning business as the cause of his absence. I Mrs. Curphey went to study in Paris in 1904, and on November 15 wrote her husband: I have always been a loving wife. Why do yon not come back to me? I will over- look the past and will never refer to it again. We are both young. Let us try and be happy in the future, as we used to be in the past. Let me know where to come. I don't care where. I want you to be my husband in fact instead of in name. Respondent declined to return.

GUARDED IN A GARDEN. The petition of Mr. Cecil James Lucas, of Cromwell-road, Wimbledon, for a divorce by reason of his wife's misconduct with a man, I named Gibbs, was heard in the Divorce Court, London. After having married in 1898 the couple lived at Aldershot, the co-respondent living lived at Aldershot, the co-respondent living next door. The respondent subsequently left her home and went to live with the co- respondent at Cooper's Hill. On visiting there with his brother and brother-in-law, the petitioner saw his wife and the co-respondent in the garden. I must explain," he added, "that the house was surrounded by a garden, and the garden was surrounded by a field. I found the gate of the field chained and padlocked, and the co-respondent was walking about with a bull-terrier. There was also a man carrying a double-barrelled gun." I The petitioner, without going into the garden, told the co-respondent what he thought of him in a few hasty words." A decree nisi was granted. I

A BRISTOL DIVORCE. In the Divorce Court on Wednesday (before Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane) a caese was heard in which Mr. Henry Walter Bishop, a grocer in business in Gloucester-road, Bristol, sued for a divorce from his wife, Elsie Fanny Bishop, on the ground of her misconduct with Mr. William George Barnfield, an auc- tioneer, of Borough-wall, Bath, and Mr. Philip John Miles, commission agent, of Brynland-avenue, Bisbopston. The suit was undefended. Mr. Bayford, who appeared for the peti- tioner, said the marriage took place on the 11th of September, 1898, at Chew Magna, Somerset. The co-respondents were on terms of friendship with the petitioner, and visited at his house. In November, 1904, petitioner had to go away on business, and on his re- turn he noticed that his wife's demeanour towards him had changed. He asked the reason, and she made excuses, but ultimately in December she made a confession to him that she had misconducted* herself in 1901 with both the co-respondents. Petitioner up to that time had not had the slightest sus- picion of his wife or the co-respondents. She afterwards wrote out a confession of mis- roadnct with Mr. Barnfield and Mr. Miles in 1901. The bnabMjd subsequently earw both the co-respondents, and they also admitted the misconduct. Petitioner gave evidence in support of counsel's statement. He spoke to the wife making confession, and said he received also a letter from Mr. Miles asking for forgive- ness, promising that it should not occur again, and adding, Please forgive an un- grateful cur, and may Almighty God forgive me." Witness said he saw Barnfield, taxed him with the misconduct, and Mr. Barnfield afterwards wrote out a document stating- I herewith offer you my most sincere apology for the great wrong done to your wife, and promise never to molest her in future." Other evidence having been given, a decree nisi was granted, with costs.

EARLY MARRIAGE SEQUEL. Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane heard the petition of Mrs. Millicent Pfahl for a divorce by reason of the cruelty and misconduct of her husband, Mr. Charles Pfahl. The parties were married at the Fulham Registry Office in 1902, the petitioner being then seventeen years of age. For some time the marriage was kept secret, but when they lived together the husband ill-used his wife, and subsequently went to live with a young woman who was a friend of both parties. The wife and the young woman gave evidence, but his Lordship expressed himself as dissatisfied with the evidence as to cruelty. A lady at the back of the court then came forward' and proffered her evidence. She said that she was a friend of the family. She spoke to assaults on Mrs. Pfahl before they knew that she was married to the respon- dent. Mr. Justice Deane recalled the petitioner, and asked her why she had not stated this in her evidenoe-in-chief. She had done herself am injury, and had almost got herself into trouble. His lordship then asked: How old are you now?—Petitioner: Twenty. Mr. Justice Deane: Been married three years and only twenty now! Decree nisi, with costs.

AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE. In the Divorce Court on Thursday Mrs. Jane Isabel Norton was granted a decree nisi on the ground of the desertion and misconduct of her husband, Thomas Henry Norton, for- merly a Congregational minister at Bicester, Oxfordshire. According to counsel, a Misa Dorah Mary Prentice became friends with the parties. On October 3, 1902, respondent told his wife he was going to attend a meeting at Oxford, packed a bag, and she never saw him again, until reoently. Letters were received from Mr. Norton by two ministers admitting that he had gone away with Dorah Prentice. The citations were served upon Mr. Norton and Miss Prentice in New York, where they were found in the same house. Mrs. Norton said she waa now postmistress at Sedbergh, a position which she had occupied before marriage. She had no idea of any miscon- duct between her husband and Miss Prentice, who attended her husband's chapel. In one of the letters referred to respondent said the cause of the step he had taken was an unhappy marriage, adding that Miss Prentice came to be to me what Mrs. Norton never was, or could be. and so we decided to spend the rest of our days together. The suit was undefended.

SINGULAR STORY. In the Divorce Court on Wednesday Mrs. Alice Squire sought a divorce by reason of the desertion and misconduct of her husband, Mr Adolphus Richard Squire. There was no defence. Mr. Middleton, who appeared for the peti- tioner, said that the parties were married on April 17, 1892, at Croydon, and there was one child. The respondent was addicted to drink, and stayed out late at night. Three months after the marriage she went to Wimbledon for the day, and on her return ehe found that her husband had disappeared. Ten yeairs afterwards she saw in a newspaper that a man of the name of Squire had been charged with bigamy on his own confession. She wrote to the address given, and asked him whether he was her husband. He renlied that he was, and asked her to for- give him. She did so on the promise that he vgbuld provide a home for her, but he never ojd. In December, 1903, taking advan- tage of her having forgiven him. she halving sondoned the antecedent offence, he again left his wife, and went back to the same woman, Kathleen Knight, with whom he had before committed misconduct. That state of things continued until the beginning of this year, consequently the original offence was revived. Sir Gorell Barnes: When is the desertion? Mr. Middleton: The original desertion oon- sists of the husband leaving his wife three months after the marriage. Two sisters of the respondent gave evidence as to their brother living with Kathleen Knight at Croydon. as man and wife. Sir Gorell Barnes granted a decree nisi, with ooats, and custody of the child of the marriage. JL 1

A MOTHER'S ALLEGED MAD ACT. A deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire family is alleged to have been made on Thursday by Mrs. Miriam Dobbs, a married woman, residing at 84, Snatchwood- road, Abersychan. It is alleged that after her husband left for work Mrs. Dobbs was seized with frenzy, and, it is stated, gave strong doses of carbolic acid to three of her children, and tried to destroy herself by taking the same poison. Ada Miriam. a. child of two years and a. half, is already dead, and the mother and Roeetta, a child of five years, are not r expected to recover. Dr. Mulligan and three of his assistants were immediately in attendance, and administered strong emetics to the sufferers, and they a.re hopeful that Florence Evelyn the eldest of the children, aged nine years, may recover. Mrs. Dobbs a.ppea.rs to have suffered a great deaJ from illness during recent years, and has been much depressed. NaturaUy, the affair has created the greatest sensation in the neighbourhood, where Mrs. Dobbs has resided all her life- time. The first intimation the neigh-bours had of anything having happened, was when the little boy, Reggie Dobbs, ran across the road to his aunt's house to say that his mother and two sisters were dying. Reggie told his aunt that he had been sent, by his mother's request, with this news, and forthwith Mrs. Griffith Price rushed over to the house. Upon going upstairs she found Mrs. Dobbs and her three daughters foaming at the mouth and nostrik. Although she detected the smell of carbolic acid, Mrs. Price eafid it never occurred to her that an attempt had been made to poison the children. Know- ing that Mrs. Dobbs had been iU for some time she did not feel alarmed at her condi- tion. She took the children out of bed, and thinking they were in fits she gave them some milk, and sent for Mrs. Smith, a nurse, who lives not far away, to attend to them. The children did not seem to get any better, and she therefore sum- moned some neighbours and sent her father- in-law for Dr. Mulligan, Abersychan. Upon the arrival of the doctor and his assistant it was discovered that the children had been given poison, and, as the mother and Rosetta were unconscious, strong emetics were hypo- dermicaHy administered. The poison had taken so much effect upon the youngest child, Ada, who was lying in bed with her mother, that she died within an hour. The mother and Rosetta remain uncon- scious, and no hopes are entertained for their recovery by the doctors. Florence Evelyn, the eldest of the girls, did not take much of the poison, and when our reporter visited a neighbour's house he found her lying on the couch, conscious, and talking quite rationally.

MRS. DOBBS DEAD. Our reporter, wiring just after five on Thursday, says that Mrs. Dobbs died at fire o'clock without having recovered conscious- ness.

DEATH OF ANOTHER OHILD. Shortly after three o'clock on Thursday the girl Rosetta, who had never regained con- sciousness, died from the effects of the poison. The mother's condition is serious. HUSBAND'S KINDNESS. John Dobbs, the husband, is a collier, and works at the LLanarch Colliery. He took a cup of tea to his wife before he left the house for work this morning. She does not appear to have touched the tea, and, it is stated, took it downstairs, and then brought up a bottle of carbolic acid to the bedroom. She then, it is said, poured out a breakfast- cupful of the poison, and asked the children to take it on the pretence tha.t it was medi- oine. All the girls wereinduced to take it, but the two boys, George and Reggie, could not be persuaded to drink it.

VICAR & NONCONFORMISTS. A SCENE IN A PLYMOUTH CHURCH. A case which is exciting wide interest in the West of England was mentioned at Plymouth PoLioe-court on Wednesday. The Rev. Cecil H. Salt. vicar of St. John's, has been summoned for indecent and violent behaviour in his church, and viith assaulting William W. Lucas, a local builder and a. prominent Non- conformist. The vicar has also summoned Mr. Lucas for violent and indecent behavour" in the church. The allegations arise out of an inci- dent which occurred a, few days ago, when Mr. Lucas, who is a borough councillor and a member of the education committee, waa attending a morning service at the church to which children of St. John's Day Schools were taken. In the course of an address to the children, the vicar, whoso church is one of the most ritualistic in the locality, is alleged to have stated that St. John's was the only house of God in the parish. Mr. Lucas protested, and heated words followed. The vicar at once expressed his intention of proceeding against Mr. Lucas .for braw- ling, and Wednesday's proceedings were the outcome. Owing to the illness of the magistrates'- cLerk, the case was adjourned till the 12th inst.

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REMARKABLE CASE AT CARDIFF. "IFE'S PITIABLE STORY OF DESERTION. 1*aeSt Stuart Fergnsson, formerly an iron i, iQerchaint in Cardiff, and in his day a figure in tlie political, social, and ^Quaerciai life of the town, was summoned »0o diff ^>°^ce"court on Wednesday after- at the instance of his wife, Constance iid lne' aileg^d desertion. Defendant appear, and waa unrepresented. The jP^ndiary (Mr. T. W. Lewis) was on the and the revelations were dramatic d remarkable. >^L,Jo6eph Henry Jonee, solicitor for Mrs. ^fStiason, addressing hie worship, 6aid: I understand defendant not appear- air. it is the case of a summons issued time ago in Cardiff, where he was then but he was not at the place when summons was attempted to be served, ^o^wing, bo we are informed, that the eum- been issued, he went to Bristol, to Mother's house, so that we had to l$sue the summons, and the summons has served at his mother's house, where he at the time. ^Stipendiary: His last known place of toari ^one8: Yes; and a declaration was to the effect that the summons hod served. It came this day week before The police neglected to give me the .•^nution that it had been served, and you o Rood enough to adjourn it for a week, that not^ce might be given to defendant the case would come on for hearing -J*3*, a letter was sent to him to an in Kensington Park, Brislington, ~-Th Sir,—FergUBSon v. Fergusson. j matter has been adjourned until May j 12.30." The letter was not returned, and ^*vice^ y°U decide that waa sufficient Stipendiary: Yes. Jones: This is a summons for a jjF^^ion order on the ground of desertion, 3uarriage took place on October 1, 1838, ja- Margaret's Church, Roath. There is to e f ^he marriage—Gilbert Stuart, fifteen; aid Stuart, thirteen; and Norman Stuart, def ^h^y first lived at Newcastle, where Ote^ik114 .carrie^ 011 business as an iron ore BaM^T^rt .in partnership with another. The Vh«nl6vSk*p waa ^ssol^ed after six months, ^_on he returned to Cardiff, and continued w aame business. The parties belong to dam families in Cardiff, and defen- aaat traded very successfully up to a oer- Point. He next went into the employ- oi^j ^ore|l Bros, as manager of the iron y^^tep&rtment at a salary of about £ 500 a «u k6 Stipendiary: It strikes me if he has a large income and she has so many nudren that the case had better be tried in the High Court. lIr. Jones: That was what I was just fining to. Mr. Willoughby Hawkins, secre- J^ry of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce, «as maintained his sister, and since his mar- riage, in 1898, Mrs. Fergusson has earned her living, with the help W her brother, in ting apartments, ard she ha.s been co-,a. that for all these years until now. ■tod 5lTls'>and time after time has molested ago her, The climax came a month thr<U>Q on one his visits to Cardiff he *ind Ded so to the house and break the the u*' Complainant was forced to go to °"ief-oonstable, who placed the house, ich i3 jn cathedral-road, under supervi- th«*»»' ant* caused a constable to be stationed Defendant was in the act of doing Ca had threatened when the policeman 1 him and turned him away. He Paated the act, and was again turned *ifay" *or I don't know that his hrin Won^ have taken aotion. She now gv 88 proceedings very reluctantly. Oj tWOQld be glad to be quit of him. If you but 6 an ort*er wiU not comply with it, y. shall have power to put an end to treatment to which this lady has been bjected. Applying for a maximum order, >6a Des went 011 to aay that two or three rs ago defendant kidnapped one of the hi™ street, and stole him and took away, but afterwards brought him k, and left him with his mother, who j) now scarcely make two ends meet, .endaiit eeemed always to have had a amount of money at command. de/66 years after his marriage he was efemd&nt in quite a cause oelebre for of Promise' a^d had to pay £ 500 jj^Jages. The promise was made at a dinner the Hotel Metropole, at which were ,}; lady's mother, the lady herself, and a stiaguiahed member of Parliament well }*» in this neighbourhood. He treated (V *>aeste right royally. Mrs. Fergusson v5* Jones went on) knew nothing of the of promise case until she saw the of it in the newspapers. Defendant letter8 from the Hotel Cecil and Impe- ding ^erTice Club, and when he came to Car- stayed at the Boyal Hotel, and yet he not contributed one penny towards his « l^e. whom he left in oonsequenoe, as was of the judgment in the breach of jjv^Biise case. The reports of that case read laif a romaJlce- His excuses to the young when he failed to meet her were that *ae on the Marguerite, his yacht, in Mediterranean, or was travelling in Africa. A more laughable romance v^d hardly be imagined. Mrs. Fergusson moat respectable people at her house, "er health, through defendant's conduct, breaking down. .Itrg. Fergusson was called, and stated the ^Pcumstanoes in answer to her solicitor. She 8^le sa^' Cathedral-road, where o e let apartments, and supported the chil- v en "with the help of her brother. Her hus- deserted her eleven years ago next He was then a manager for Morel at a salary, she thought, of between —'0 and £ 1,000 per r,nnum. She had not £ ,u°6 cohabited. When he went she had not e slightest knovleage of the breach of V '>misc case, and the time was two days tore her confinement. Defendant was wm- —well, almost always-in drink. days after the birth of her child 'endaut came into the bedroom, and Dr. ^cheli had him turned out. They had not HUarrellp.d before defendant went away, and Jjtare was nothing in the nature of an engage- 8 that he should go, and no agreement to v Defendant had sent her £ 8 only, when was lying ill in London, and begged her j» and see him. She found him in the Ceoil, where he had a man nurse. He Dow a company promoter. When in Cardiff Utonth a-go he came several timee to ;he an^ behaved more like a madman." anh supP°rte(i herself by letting apartments j yriting to the papers. Defendant had ised to recoup her brother. Stipendiary: There was nothing in ihe of separation by mutual consent? ho De3S: sa<id he would provide a hii^6' 1 him 1 was willin= to with if he would, and I gave him twelve uths to do it; but he has done nothing. bi*vfv Hawkins, complainant's ^^ofher, sajd defendant still seemed to be bim fairly Sood position, but he did not think ft* particularly wealthy. At interviews wit- 5.bl ha<' with him in London he invari- itlti^ Eromisecl support his wife. He had to ,'jna'tecl that he would recoup witness even- .bl;lt "witne6s did n<>t think that wae ^kely to come off." "As a matter of Mr. Hawkins added, we don't oare ether he pays anything or not." jj. Stipendiary held that the facte clearly desertion. Defendant had not only wn from the society of his wife, in bad °f her willi'nKI,es8 to live with him, he neglected to provide her witn a home and ce' She wais entitled to the relief ^or- and he granted a separation order, £ 2 a week maintenance, and ten guineas ^idWn '0 wifo to h&ve the custody of the

ILLNESS OF THE SPEAKER It RID Is officially announced that the ,vbo t^i of the House of Commons, tilt a rather severe chill on the 15th CQ" been since suffering from slight of the lungs, from which, though Kn.,1. r, he is not altogether free, and *k ja, advice of his medical attendants fci^frVod at present to remain at Sutton 9'1 J d. Sumse-- omifned to bAs rwm. L

SECRET MARRIAGE. Sir Gorell Barnes, in the Divorce Division on Wednesday dealt with the undefended petition of Mrs. Louisa St. Aubyn Under- wood, for a divorce by reason of the deser- tion and misconduct of her husband, Mr. Edward Arthur Underwood, stated to be an officer in the Army. The parties were secretly married in February, 1899, at the registry office, Ken- sington, after which the petitioner returned to her parents' house. In October, 1899, the war broke out, and the respondent went to South Africa. The petitioner then told her parents of the mar- riage, and on November 4, 1899, a ceremony of marriage took place at St. Cuthbert's Church. In 1901, the petitioner joined her husband in South Africa, and afterwards they came to this country. In 1902 the respondent was ordered to India, and while there his wife got posses- sion of a compromising letter, which was intended for the husband. He ceased to write to her. and in November, 1904, he returned to this country, but did not join his wife, who brought a suit for restitution of conjugal rights. She obtained a decree which her husband never complied with, and that constituted desertion. With regard to the misconduct, he was seen to accompany a woman to some rooms in Oxford Mansions. A decree nisi was granted.

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LOCAL TRAGIC INCIDENTS STRANGE DEATH OF A SWAN- SEA LADY. At an inquest held at Swansea on the body of Mrs. M. J. Lewis, wife of Mr. J. H. Lewis, manager of the Swa.nsea. Canister Workg, evidence was given by Mr. Lewis that he found his wife dead in a chair on Wednes- day evening about nine o'clock. She had not been well for about eighteen months, and her run-down condition had affected her heart. In the house he had found a bottle labelled "Laudanum," but he did not know whether she had taken any.—The Coroner informed the jury that Dr. Latimer had oonv municated with him. It was quite poesible that the deceased died from heart failure, but there was the fact that the laudanum battle had been found. He, therefore, pro- posed to adjourn the inquiry until the report of the analyst had been received on the viscera of the deceased.—The inquest WM adjourned till Tuesday next. TERRIBLE SUICIDE OF A CARDIFF MAX. About 9.30 a.m. pn Monday a man named Alexander L. Graham committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor at 180, Cow- bridge-road, Canton, Cardiff. Deceased, who was 28 years of age, was a telephone eleo- trician, but had been out of work for about nine months. Until reoently he had beaa living with his mother-in-law in Neville-street, but about a fortnight ago he came with his wife to stay at 180. Cowbridge-road, with i Mrs. Spencer, his wife's sister-in-law. On Monday Mrs. Spencer had occasion to go to the back of the premises to get some coal, and left the deceased sitting in a chair in the kitchen. When she returned she found that he had gone, and hearing groans in the ( passage which led from the shop, she went there and found deceased with his head nearly cut off. Dr. Cownie was sent for, and was immediately upon the scene, but he eo-uld not do anything for the man, who died in about fire minutes. The inquest was held at Cardiff on Tues- d-ay (before Mr. E. B. Roece). Dr. Cownie deposed to seeing deceased on Monday morning. His throat had been cut with a razor. It was very delibera.te, for two attempts had been made. This was the Amnfifl of death. A razor was found by deceased, and, no doubt, this had been the instrument used. The jury returned a, verdict of Pirirido while temporarily insane." DETERMINED AFFAIR AT CARDIFF DOCKS. A tragedy occurred early on Wednesday OR board the steamship Lord Charlemont, which arrived at the Roath Dock, Cardiff, on Saw day from Baltimore with cattle and general cargo. The boatswain, Thomas West, was going round the ship about 5.30 in the morn- ing when he found Samuel Wright, the car- penter, aged .35. oil hia knees m a lavatory, a.nd with a huge gash in his throat. Hie at once rushed to the vessel's side, and shouted to Polioe-sergeant Baxtlett, of the Bute Police. who was standing near the dock edge, tint he believed the carpenter was dead. Baurtlett went aboard, and finding that life was ex- tinct, had the body removed to the Tra,de. street mortuary. The sergeant found in the lavatory the deceased's open razor, covered with blood, and on a desk in his bunk wom found a set-stone, on which he had evidently sharpened the weapon. He was a Bristol maa by birth, bnt having married in Belfast be had made his home there. He leaves a widow and nine children. Although he gave little idea of the nature of his worries, the view on board is that family troubles was tbs cause of his depression. THE INQUEST. At the inquest on deceased, held at Cardiff Town-hall on Wednesday afternoon, it was stated that no reason could be assigned for Wright's rash act, except that, the ship having experienced tempestuous weather in crossing the Atlantic from the United States and lost a considerable portion of her deck cargo and a large number of cattle and sheep, the deceased must have become mentally affected through fear, as he had been strange in his manner ever since. The jury returned a verdict of Suicide whilst of unsound mind." SUDDEN DEATH AT CWMAVON. Mrs. Catherine Jenkins, aged 59, residing at 6, London-row, Cwmavon, died suddenly at nine o'clock on Sunday morning. Mrs. Jen- kins, who had not been enjoying good health, partook of a light breakfast in bed. Her daughter, who was in an adjoining room, heard her call, and on responding saw her mother in a dying condition, and she suc- cumbed before medical assistance could be procured. ( HUSBAND'S DEATH FROM EXCITE- MENT. At an inquest held in London on Monday respecting the death of Robert Cohen, 55, a barber, of Manchester, it was stated that deceased left his home and came to London, where he lived in Bethnal Green with Ruth Greenwood, aged 21, a former servant in his employ. Mrs. Coben came to London after her husband. Whilst she was arguing with Greenwood he died on the doorstep from heart f-ijure, ("ving to excitement. A verdiofc accordingly was returned. PATHETIC DOUBLE FUNERAL AT NEWPORT. A double funeral of a very pathetic nature took place at Newport on Tuesday. Mrs. Lovell, the wife of Mr. G. F. Lovell, of Gaa-field. Gold Top&. died on Thursday evening laet from blood poisoning, due to the decay of a number of teeth, which had been broken off fifteen years ago, and on the following day her mother, Mrs. Greenwood, of Mai pas-road, was so upset by the shock of her daughter's d,ea,th that she had a stroke of paralysis, and died within a few hours. Both mother a-nd daughter were buried together at the ceme- tery. The service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Minifie, pastor of Commercial-street Bap. tist Church. There was a. very lilrge gather- ing of mourners. CURIOUS INCIDENT: COURAGE OF A POLICE OFFICIAL. A boy, aged seven, named William Milee Trew, son of Elizabeth Trew, widow, Mon- mouth, was playing with other boys OIl Tuesday. on the bank of a cutting, known as the Old Monnow, in which there was 12ft. of water, when some town refuse on which he was standing gave way, and precipitated V him into the water. Superintendent Captain Parker was crossing Chippenham Mead, and, hearing the cries of the other children, came up and dived in. When the body WM i recovered life was found to be extinct. THE WASHING TUB TRAGEDY AT •3 GARNDIFFAITH. Mr. M. Roberte-Jones, coroner for South Monmouthshire, held an inquest on Satur- day at the police-station, Garndiffaith, on the body of Lydia Richards, who was drowned in a washing tub on Thursday last. Mrs. Richards, the mother of the child, said she sent the deceased and another child out for a walk. Witneas went to a neighbour's house, and on her return found Lydia drowned in a washing tub. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death." FOUND IN THE CANAL. Mr. M. Roberts Jones resumed an inquest at Malpas, near Newport, on Saturday after- i noon concerning the death of a man whose • body was picked up in the canal at Ufa-ipm on Wednesday last, and who was then unidentified. It had since been found by a photograph that deceased was a labouring man named Brown, who had reoently worked at a reservoir near Cwmbran. The jury returned a verdict that he was accidentally drowned. j SUDDEN DEATH AT NEWPORT. j Mrs. Browning, the wife of Thomas Brown- ing, foreman ganger on the Great Western Railway at Newport, died very suddenly at 124, Shaftesbury-street, Newport, on Tuesday afternoon. She had complained of pains till