LONDON LATEST SCANDAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 28 August 1886, Page 3

LONDON LATEST SCANDAL.

''Hie Charges of Baron Do Worms Against His Wife. Baron de Worms, who was Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade in Salisbury^ Cabinet brought an action for divorce againet his wife on the ground of adultery. He alleges that hia wife made frequent visits to the Tyrol alone. He 'suspected nothing at firat, because she* is a native of Austria, being the daughter of Baron yon TedeßCO of, Vienna, but he discovered that the object of those visits was neither patriotic nor innocent, but to meat in criminal intercourse Baron Meeron, who made appointments' for her uecretly to receive him there. Baron de Worms then secured evidence sufficient to base his complaint on and make the baroness surrender the correspondence Baron Meeron aud Baroness Be Worms concluded not to enter any defence. Baron De Worms was the Tory member for the ToxtetH division of Liverpool in the late Souse of Commons. He is 40 years ot age, and ig an hereditary, Bniron of the Austrian Empire. His wife is a handsome and stately "woman, the leader of a, fashionable circle;- and a general social favourite. A decree nisi 'of divorce 'was' granted : ; to Baron De ,Worms on l'4fc!j. '-Plaintiff's ! allegation? concerning the lafJy'jf. criminal relations with Baron Meeron io tiifi, TyroT'were^fully 'proven.' 1 The'/ evidebcte aWaifed.HnkV tbe^BaroWss^made exceptionally' long ' 'sojourns* dtf tinent tor Incontinentrrporposesj obtain* away,, from .home by ( OTeten^in^.^hat^A managed to conceal* the purpose of her

vieitb to the Tyrol, "which waa to* meet Baron Meeron, by hiring his castle. She gave him $100,000 for- the use of it for a few yeara. ( Before thia , Baron Meeron was, in a state of* poverty. Baron De Worms has been awarded the ' custody of his three children. ' > ' " i '