MRS BOUCICAULT WINS. SHE IS GRANTED A DIVORCE FROM HER HUSBAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 6

MRS BOUCICAULT WINS. SHE IS GRANTED A DIVORCE FROM HER HUSBAND.

LoiNdojs, July 21.— The celebrated Boucicault divorce case was to-day decided in favour of the wife. In the trial of the ca?c Mis Agnes Boucicaulb, petitioner, declared that she was born in Edinburgh in 1833, was educated for the stage, and first appeared at the Princess Theatre, London, which was then under the management of Charles Kean, [She Avas then introduced to Dion Boucicaulb, who made her an oiler of marriage, but acting under the advice of Mrs Kean she eventually declined the oiler. Iv 1852 she wab ruined by him, and these relations continued between them until Aucrust, 1853, when she went to Aineiica, to follow her profession. She had an engagement in Montreal, and while there she received letters trom Dion Boucicaulb, who was in New York. She went there to see him. He objected to living in a hotel, and informed her that if she would consent to become his wife he would consent to be her husband, and that by the laws of New York that constituted a valid marriage, as in Scotland. Under these circumstances she consented bo become his wife. They stayed at a hotel toi a week or ten days and agreed to li\e together as man and wife. After that s-ho was generally looked upon as his wife, and on one occasion in Boston from the stage he publicly made an anouncement to that eliect. Subsequently she executed a separation deed under which she wa.s toh.ue an annuity of t'Boo a year. This was signed in her maiden name, she being obliged to do that because she was told that she could nob have the allowance unless bhc did. In 1883 she heard that Boucicaulb had gone through a ceiemony of mairutge with a lady in Australia. She commenced a suit for divorce, but abandoned it at the request of her child. The witness was cross-examined at some length as to the various proceedings she had taken against him and as to the date of the alleged marriage, one of the dates being 1855. H\s lordship pointed out that the pleadings appeared to have been amended. No witnesses weie called for the defence. The respondents counsel contended that there was no marriage between them. The Judge came to the conclusion that there was a marriage bebueen the parbies, and granted Mrs Boucicault a decree by reason of the bigamy and adultery of her husband, with cosfs.