EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 948, 10 August 1871, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Some extraordinary revelations have been made in a case tried before the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions at Cork lately. Three processes were brought against Captain Richard Morgan, of Bridestown, the husband of Lady Louisa, Morgan, daughter of Lord Mountcashel; for the support and education of one of the defendant's children. The plaintiffs were — MiBS Oxley, London ; TMLiss Shipton, London ; and Mrs Smith, Fermoy. The principal witness for the plaintiffs was Lady Louisa Morgan, who stated that that she had been forced to leave her husband in consequence of his persistent and systematic cruelty, She had separated from Kirn several times, and gone back again, but had finally separated from him in 1868. One of the occasions when she had gone back to him was in 1867, at which time he promised he would live happily with her in future. .He soon broke his promise, however, and she' was compelled to fly from the house and hide in the fields, stables, or anywhere else that he was not. He used frightful language toier in presence of the children and servants ; and, during the last few months of her life with him, she often had to feed the children on cold potatoes. Captain Morgan was examined in his own defence,, and stat§d that there had been np nepespify for- her to leave the house for want pf food. He denied having beaten cruelly ; on ihe contrary, she assaulted him frequently. He admitted having quarrelled with-hsrsbi weeks after marriage, hut denied that he had thrown her ouf of a phaeton six weeks after confinement, He had to reprimand her frequently for using filthy language in the presence of the groom and, other servants. She had often stated that she had been untrue to him .hundreds of times, and; would M- again, Hfe complained of her visiting a solicitor in Cork, who, he. alleged, had gone to see her in London. She was in the habit of associating with the groom in the stables, came from races at night unaccompanied, and so intoxicated that she could not articulate, At one time, wh'en witness was in gaol, she used to go fishing with a man at twelve o'clock at night. The case occupied the court for three days, and the chairman, in giving judgment, said he believed the evidence of Lady Louisa Morgan. The defendant bad . cast . imputations on her which had existence only in his. fertile fjoulfi reform nun. The result of the trial was to restore Lady. Louisa to her proper position, and to show that the calumnies circulated concerning her were pure slanders. "Decrees were granted for the pdu.cation and support of the child and the manitefiance of in London.