THE YELVERTON CASE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 44, 10 April 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE YELVERTON CASE.

The Examiner publishes ihree letters elicited by the somewhat extraordinary letter from Mrs. Forbes (Yelverrou) published by that journal in its previous issue. Mrs. Thelwall, of Hull, wriies : " Mrs. Forbes states that Mrs. Yelverton was in Edinburgh the whole week previous to the marriage of Major Yelverton with Mrs. Forbes, that Mrs. Yelverton knew of it and spoke of it, and further, that the Scotch marriage was not put forward for two years after it was alleged to have taken place. These statements aru utterly and entirely untrue. The facts are the following :— On Friday, June 25, 1851, 1 met Mrs. Yelverton at Leith. She had that day arrived by steamer from London. Major Yelverton called upon her that evening. The following morning

[he was married to Mrs.. Forbw, and the same morning his brother, called upon Mrs. Yelverton, who was too unwell to speak to him," but he informed me the Major was out of town. On Sunday, the 27th, Mrs. Stalker told me that she had seen Major Yelvertoa riding past with a lady whom she supposed to be Wrs. Yelverton until she saw her face. On Tuesday, the 29th, Mrs. Yelvertoa heard of the marriage for the first time, in my presence, and her brother-in-law, Mr. Bellamy, was sent for by telegraph. , Immediately after this pro- . ceedtngs were commenced against the Major for bigamy, and both the Scotch and Irish marriages were brought against him." Another correspondent, the Hon. W. H. Yelverton, uncle of Major Yelverton, denies what is usually accepted as a fact when the case is re- . ferred to — that Major Yelverton was under some difficulty with the uncle, who held his nephew's hands for money lent, with the view of preventing the marriage until the bond was paid- Mr. Yelverton says : — " To the best of my recollection j never lent Major Yelverton any money, not even an occasional sum." The third correspondent of the Examiner, " A Woman," takes up the case of Mrs. Theresa Yelverton with some warmth, and defends the conduct of that lady at great length. On the point of "gentle blood/a bout which Major Yelverton showed himself so precise at the Dublin trial, "A Woman" says : — " Lord Avenmore has or had a small, a very small property, Belleisle, not entailed. In the last generation, the then Lord's brother, Augustus Yelverton, made a marriage less favorable than the one so bitterly discussed, and lived principally in the Isle o( Man. His daughter held a subordinate position in the family of Mr. Severn, at Narbeth, Carmarthenshire, and was involved in family troubles and scandal with which the public have no concern. In the present generation, one daughter, Mrs. Goring, is in New Zealand ; one is married to Captain Harvey ; one to James Walker, advocate in Edinburgh ; and one to Mr. or Colonel Lyons. What there is in the position of these parties to make Theresa Longworth unworthy of mating with them it is difficult to explain."

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