" BEAUTIFUL FOE EVER."

Southland Times, Issue 1006, 19 August 1868, Page 3

" BEAUTIFUL FOE EVER."

The fame of Madame Eachel is already world-wide, but recent disclosures exhibit an audacity on her part almost sublime, and a degree of imbecile credulity on the part of one of her dupes that affords an admirable companion picture to the case of Mrs Lyon. The tale divulged last week at the Marlborough Police Court shows that there are depths of human gullibility quite Unfathomable. Mrs Borradaile, a woman well advanced in years and wrinkles, deposes that in 1866 she called on Madame Eachel, for the purpose of being made * beautiful for ever.' She was told, that it would be a costly process, and also that if she did not mind further paying heavily, an advantageous matrimonial alliance might be arranged for her. Then followed what Mrs Borradaile's council truly said was almost incredible. The widow advanced £1000, used the prescribed cosmetics, and took baths at a particular, house. After she had done so she was told that the bath she had entered was so constructed that those within could be seen through crevices, and that in this way a nobleman had been permitted to observe her, was smitten with her charms and was impatient to marry her. Instead of resenting such treatment as an outrage upon her sex, the frail woman was taken in by the clumsy story, and had an interview with a person who personated Lord Bentlagh. She afterwards entrusts Madame Eachel with one large sum after another for the use of this romantic inamorata. £1,200 were paid for diamonds to adorn a coronet, which were returned with a penalty of £100, but the money was never disgorged by Madame Bachel. Next she buys a trotisseau which is sent for her to the same obliging friend, and is never seen again. Other sums go to the pretended Lord Eanelagh for volunteering purposes; and altogether she is plundered of some £4,000 by the conspirators. Awaking at length from her delusion, her love and confidence #ere changed to hate and revenge, and she has commenced a prosecution against Madame Eachel for conspiracy and fraud. The woman decorator had to find substantial bail. Lord Eanelagh is, of course, perfectly innocent of any complicity in the vile deception. The hearing of the charge against Madame Eachel was resumed on Tuesday. Mrs Borradaile was again examined, and in the course of her evidence made some extraordinary statements. She declared positively that Lord Eanelagh, who was in court, was the gentleman to whom she was introduced by Madame Eachel in 1866, and she adhered to this through a long and searching cross-examination at the -hands of Mr Digby Seymour. His lordship's name was also introduced into a passage in the witness's previous history, wherein her husband was represented as having slain a man in a duel in consequence of the intimacy between the murdered man and Mrs Borradaile. The further hearing of the case was again adjourned; Lord Eanelagh repeating what- he had already stated, 'that he had nothing whatever to do with the case.' To this Mr Seymour, the leading council for Madame Eachel, replied, that 'no member of Lord Eanelagh's family need blush for any part that his lordship had taken in the affair.'