Another Aristocratic Scandal. THE LORD AND THE ACTRESS. [SPECIAL TO SYDNEY "NEWS."]

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 165, 14 August 1886, Page 6

Another Aristocratic Scandal. THE LORD AND THE ACTRESS. [SPECIAL TO SYDNEY "NEWS."]

London, August 2. THEexcitement occasioned by the disclosures in the Crawford-Dilke case has become eclipsed by that created over a fresh revelation of the low tone of morality pervading a large section of the English aristocratic world. It appears that I the husband of Miss Violet Cameron, the popular London actress of the Avenue Theatre, entertaining suspicions of his wife's fidelity, followed her to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where she was staying during a brief > summer tour with her company. He entered the hotel where she had taken lodging?, and there found her in bed with the I Earl of Lonsdale. There was a, great scene between the infuriated husband and his wife's paramour, which ended in tbe Earl forcibly ejecting the husband from the bedchamber. On the following day the Earl was summoned by the husband in the Newcastle Police Court and fined for assault. Miss Violet Cameron first appeared on the London stage at the Princess's Theatre in 1870, and played as a child in the panto mime in 1871 — 1874, She then achieved a success in comic opera, and speedily became a popular favourite. During the earlier parts of the present year she appeared in "Lurline " in the London Avenue Theatre, and was travelling with that piece on tour when the incident mentioned in our special message occurred. The present Earl of Lonsdale succeeded to the title in 1882. He was born in 1857, and was married in 1878 to Lady Grace Cicely, daughter of the Marquis of Huntlev.