THE FREAKS OF AN AUTHORESS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3104, 29 January 1879, Page 2

THE FREAKS OF AN AUTHORESS.

Colonel Boss Church of the Madras staff corps, having instituted proceedings for the dissolution of his marriage with Mrs Church on the ground of her infidelity with Colonel Lean of the Marine forces, the suit has been heard before Sir ."Robert Phillimore and a common jury. Dr Deane, for the petitioner, stated that owing to the present critical condition of affairs in the East, when? Colonel Lean now was, his absence was unavoidable, but the circumstances of the case presented no difficnlty on that account. Colonel Church was married to Mrs Church at Penang in the East Indies in June, 1854, and lived with her till 1860, when she returned to England, receiving an allowance from her husband for her maintenance. Seven children were born of the marriage, of whom one lived with Mrs Church at Chatham. In 1870 the respondent became a Roman. Catholic, which occasioned some u'npieasantness, and on remonstrance she returned to the Church of England, her original faith, which she again renounced in favor of the Romish Church in 1874. During last year Mrs Church and her daughter were witnessing a review and sham fight at Chatham, when they met Colonel Lean. Some time afterward, Mrs Church and her daughter having parted, the latter received a letter from her mother to the effect that owing to all the ttnhappiness she had gone through in her married life she had taken a step, startling no doubt to her children, but which could never be recalled, that of living with Colonel Lean, himself a father of eight children, and released by this Court from a very unhappy marriage. The jury, at his lordship's direction, returned their verdict for the petitioner, and a decree nisi, with costs against the correspondent, was pronounced by the Court.—London Globe.