"MRS LABOUCHERE" SUING FOR DIVORCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3640, 13 March 1883, Page 4

"MRS LABOUCHERE" SUING FOR DIVORCE.

A suit has been entered in the Chancery Court of Richmond by Mrs Henrietta Pigeon, who sues by her next friend, J. Carrington, for a divorce from her husband, Richard Pigeon. Mrs Pigeon alleges that she was married on the 2nd July, 1861, in London. Shortly after they came to the United States and lived in various parts of the counfry. More than Jive years ago her husband deserted her and their chid, a son, issue of their marriage, ::ud he has not contributed to their support. The New York Times says, in relation to Mrs Labour/here's suit for divorce at Richmond: —Mr Thomas P. Fowler, of the law firm of Dunning, Edsalt, Hart, and Fowler, said last night that Mi's Henrietta Pigeon, who instituted proceedings in Richmond, Va., for divorce from Richard Pigeon,, was the wife of Henry Labouehere, editor of Truth in London. At the close of the war Labouehere invested £(50,000 in plantation property in Virginia and mining property in Georgia. About £10,000 was put in the former and the remainder in the latter. Proceedings have been begun to perfect titles to the property, and Fowler antl smother member of liis firm accompanied Mrs Labouchere. She was regularly separated from Mr Pigeon, whose whereabouts have been unknown for eight years, .seventeen years ago, and was lawfully wedded to 3lr Labouehere. The record of divorce here would enable Mr Labouchere, Fowler said, to transEer the property without producing the records of the English Court. It would likewise permit Mrs Labouehere to release her dower right as his lawful wife. There was no plan for another marriage. The proceedings were for America alone. They were merely supplementary to proceedings in England, and were instituted on instructions from solicitors in England. Both Mr and Mrs Labouchere were expected here in February if the former's Parliamentary duties did not prevent. The matter could not probably <-omo up for three mouths, and possibly the English records might, after all, be iiled instead. All there was of it, under ordinary circumstances, was that it was easier to obtain a divorce than to bring hither and place on file the English records. N,j proceeding of the kind was necessary, on account of the domestic relations of Mr and Mrs Labouchere.