Release of two Captives

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 11, 14 July 1892, Page 4

Release of two Captives

♦ - Mrs Osborne was released on Saturday evening and conveyed to a friend's house in Regent's Park. On the same day Mr (no longer Captain) Edmund Hope Verney completed his sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. Mr Verney proceeded at once to Claydon House, Bucks, where his aged father, Sir Harry Verney, lies dying. The great fear of Sir Harry and of his sons was that he would die defore Captain, or rather Mr Edmund Verney was released, and that the latter would whilst a felon succeed to the Baronetcy, The Verneys have been settled in Buckinghamshire since the thirteenth century, in fact Ralph de Verney was Fleet Marston of that County in 1279. Their spotless escutcheon was Sir Harry's especial pride, and his heir's disgrace broke his*heart. Captain Verney is "■ now in many respects in much the same po.-ition as Colonel Valentine Baker Win; when he had served bis term oi imprisonment. Unfortunately, though, he is 54, or just ten years older thau was the gallant Colonel when he set about retrieving* the past. But Captain Verney has always been an int< nsely energetic man, and we may be sure that long before now he has mapped out some scheme for regaining his lost honour. Mrs Osborne, 1 fully expect to hear, wiii recover quickly now, always supposing she survives l.er confinement. Women of ber sort ure shallow as a puddle. A trouble over is soon forgotten. Wiih Osborne it will be otherwise, though from ■ bings one hear? one fancies ho can't (juite be the strong man tmd pcriect Bayard bis admirers over-twiiit hnn.