"MRS LABOUCHERE" SUING FOR DIVORCE.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1004, 2 March 1883, Page 3

"MRS LABOUCHERE" SUING FOR DIVORCE.

A suit.has been entered in the Chancery Court ‘of • Richmond by Mrs Henrietta Pigeon, ; who /.sires by her next friend, J. Carrington, for a divorce from her husband, * Eiihard' Pigeon. Mrs Pigeon alleges that she was married on the 2nd July, 1864, in London. Shortly after they came to the United States and lived in .various parts-pf the, country. More than five years ago her husband ' deserted her and Their child, k sph, issue of their mai> fiage, and he has not contributed to their Bupp'prt.j tThe 'Tim'es says, in relation To; Mrs Laboucherc’s suit , for divorce at - Richmond: —Mr Thomas P. Fowler, of . the law -firm of Edsalt, Hart, and Fowler, said last night that Mrs Henrietta Pigeon, who instituted proceedings in Richmond, Va.; for divorce from Richat’d Pigeon; was the wife of Henry Labouchere, editor of Truth in London.. At the; close of . the war Labouchere invested - £60,000 in plantation ’ property in Virginia' and raining property in Georgia. About £IO,OOO was put in the former and The remainder in the latter..; Proceedings-have been begun to perfect titles to the property, and Fowler and another member of’ his 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 Mr- Labouchere. The record of divorce here would enable Mr Labouchere, Fowler said, tp transfer the property without producing the records of the English Court. It would likewise permit Mrs Labouchere to iclease her dower right as his lawful wife. There was no plan for another marriage. proceedings were for America alone. They were merely supplementary To proceedings in England, and ..were Instituted on nstructions from solicitors in England.Both Mr and Mrs Labouchere were expected here in February’ if The foruiei s Parliamentary duties -did ‘not prevent. The matter could not 'probably coine.upi for three months, and possibly the English. records might, after a]l, be filed instead. All there was of it, under ordinary circumstances, was that it was easier to obtain divorce Uian. to, bring hither* and place on file the English records. No proceeding of the kind was necessary, on account Of the domestic relations Of _M l ' and Mrs Labouchere,