Another London Scandal.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 458, 29 March 1890, Page 3

Another London Scandal.

Viscount and Viscountess Dunlo,

A special message from London to the New York ‘Mail’ and ‘Express’ says: ‘New complications have arisen in tho Bilbon scandal. Alden Weston is the name of the man who, posing as Baron Loando, met Miss Bilton, of the Bilton sisters, at tho London Supper Club, a low midnight divo in this city. Belle then became known as the Baroness Loando. The alleged baron was subsequently arrested for trying to negotiate stolen and forced bonds, some of them being American. He was sentenced to hard labour for eighteen months " for trying to defraud a branch of the London and Westminster Bank. Belle pawned her jewels to raise money for her erring lover’s defence, but eventually became the favourite of Viscount Dunlo, tho son of the Earl of Clancarby. Under threats of exposure and a suit for breach of promise of marriage, young Dunlo being a minor, married Belle a few months ago before a registrar. A friend of the family, having been apprised of the event, met the bridal party as they were leaving the registrar’s office, and induced the young man to leave his wife at the door. He was then shipped off to Australia to keep him out of harm’s way. He is now coming back to England, and it is expected that a suit will beat once brought to annul the marriage on the grounds, first, that it hasnever been consummated; second, that Belle has a husband living ; third, that she has been intimate with one Wertheimer, the son of a curiosity dealer in Bond-3treet, since her marriage with Dunlo.’ To the above we may add that the marriage was celebrated at the Hampstead Register Office on July 10th last. In the certificate the bridegroom is described as ‘ William Frederick Le Poer Trench, aged 21 years, bachelor, Viscount Dunlo (by courtesy), 10 York-street, St. James’s, father Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, Earl of Clencarty,’ and the bride as ‘ Isabel Maud Penrice Bilton, aged 21 years, spinster, 63, Avenue Road, St. John’s Wood, father John George Bilton, gentleman." The Viscountess and her sister are still appearing on the London and provincial music hall stages, as ‘the Sisters Bilton,’ the former being also advertised as ‘ Lady Dunlo.’