ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC SCANDAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 25 September 1886, Page 3

ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC SCANDAL.

Lord Lonsdale was in the Police Court , at Newcastle recently for assaulting Mr J)e Bensande, tho husband of Miss Viol«t . Cameron, a, well-known actress. Miss Cameron was on a theatrical tour in the north of England, and was playing in Newcastle. The tour appears t-> have been a theatrical speculation of Lord Lonsdale’s, who has been travelling with the “Violet Cameron Company.” The facts as told in the Court by tl« solicitor for the complainant were as fojlows : —Mr Parsons said that during the last few months Lord Lonsdale had been on intimate terms of friendship with Miss Cameron, and had been travelling from town to town with the company. He believed his lordship had been at Brighton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Newcastle, with the company. Lord Lonsdale’s attentions to the complainant’s wife had caused some jealousy on the complainant’s part, and h<- . bad from time to time complained about Lord Lonsdale’s conduct. On Friday night complainant arrived in Newcastle from London, and went to the Turk’s Head and upstairs to the St*r sitting-room, which was occupied by his wife, but he found she was not there. He waited some time, when she came upstairs into the room with Lord Lonsdale. . Complainant took his seat in an armchair. Lord Lonsdale went to a writing-desk, And a few minutes after came to where complainant was sitting in the armchair, and without saying one word took hold of him by the collar and threw him out of the room. Again he went np, and was allowed to have a short interview with his wlte, but soon afterwards Lord Lonsdale committed another assault by shaking complainant violently by the collar in the passage outside of the room, . These were the two charges, and com plainant expressed his sorrow that he had to bring a case like this before the Court, but be was compelled to d o so on accott n t of a previous assault committed on him by Lord Lonsdale. In the evidence given by Mr Do Bensande he said that in Edinburgh Lord Lonsdale had “ chucked ” him out pf bis wife’s bedroom. Miss Cameron stated that she had commenced proceedings against her husband in the Divorce Court for cruelty. Lord Lonsdale was fined 40s, the Chairman of the bench saying that the whole proceeding from . first to last appeared to be very disreputable when they came to consider the position of the people ; and Lord Lons- . dale would perhaps remember for the future that the law provided that no man should interfere unnecessarily between a man and his wife.