THE BOUCICAULT DIVORCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1778, 18 August 1888, Page 3

THE BOUCICAULT DIVORCE.

The circumstances in connection with the divorce, case in which Mrs Dion Boucicault obtained a decree of divorce from her husband, Mrs Dion Boucicault the well-known playwright and actor, were pecul-'ar, and the court clearly considered that M"s Dion Boucicault had been badly used. It appears that she became acquainted with Mr Boucicault in 1851, while acting at the Princess' Theatre in London, which was then un:ler the management of Mr Charles Kcan Her maiden name was Mies Agnes Eobertson, and she was an actress of great promise. Mr Boucicault in duced her to live with him, but in August, 1853, she was anxious to break off the relations which existed between them. She went to America and he followed her there. In November of that year, when he was residing at New York, he promised to make her his wife, and they lived together for some years aftorwards. The law of the State of New York as regards marriages resembles that of Scotland, nothing more being'requisite to constitute a valid deed of marriage than the simple consent of the parties to regard one another as man and wife. When they returned to England Mr Boucicault alwaye referred to her as his wife, and Mr Justice Butt, who tried the case, said he could testify to this being so. In 1878 they separated, and a few years afterwards Mrs Boucicault heard that her husband had gone through the ceremony of marriage with a Miss Josephine Louise Thorndyke, in Sydney.