The Crawford- Dilke Divorce Case.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1696, 30 April 1886, Page 4

The Crawford- Dilke Divorce Case.

The following is an' extract from a lady's letter on the Crawford v. Dilko divorce case:— "The scandal of the # w«ek is truly a mournful event. The ;evils of having any sort of law cases tried iv private are obvious enough especially after this week's display. "If these things are done m the greon tree, what shall be done m the dry ?" But when one thinks of the demoralization of the public mind that must result from the sowing broadcast of such a story, one iv tempted to wish that it were possible to keep' it- from the eyes of men. It is horrible to hear that a respectable married lady could fall so low; more horrible that a man should wish her to do'so. It is terrible;to hear a daughter making such accusations against her mother. Yet . tlie , ..most shocking and terrible thing of all , is the travesty «f justice and the outrage on common sense that the trial presented. To see % party of m»n, all political allies, an • most, if not all, personal friend's of the man accused, banding, themselves together, and taking the sacred name of a court of justice,:^ drive a woman into tha outer darkncjiS; m disgrace, and to whitewash and , to declare free from all guilt a man against whom there was the very same evidence as there was against tho woman, neither more nor less, is to my thinking a spectacle that should make every person subject to the law of England alarmed, and every man responsible, as a Parliamentary voter, for the making and administration of that law not less ashamed thau indignant.