ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC SCANDAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2412, 29 September 1886, Page 2

ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC SCANDAL.

Lord Lonsdale was in the Police Court at Newcastle this week for assaulting Mr . De Bensaude, tho husband of Miss Violot Cameron, a well-known actress. Miss"' Cameron is on a theatrical, tour .'in' tho north of England, and was ' playiiig. last,, week at Newcastle. The tour appears t«A liave bueu a theatrical speculation of Lord . j Lonsdale's who has been travelling with tho" Violet Cameron Company." Tho facts as told in the Court by the solicitor for tho complainant were as followj Mr Parsons said that during the last mouths Lord Lonsdale had bees 'W 1 intimate terms of friendship with' MislCameron, and had bceu travelling from town to town with the company. He believed his lordship had been at Brigton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Newcastle with the company. Lord Lonsdale's attentions to the complainant's wife had caused some jealousy on tho coiuplainaut's part, and ho liad from time to time couiplaiued about Lord'Lousdale's conduct, On Friday night complainant arrived in Newcastle from London, and went to tho Turk's Head, and upstairs to the "Star" sitting room, which was occupied by his wife, but ho fouud sho was not there. He waited louie time, whon; she came upstairs into the room with Lord Lonsdale. Complainant took his seat in an armchair. Lord Lonsdale went to a and a few minutes afterwards came w" whoro complainant was sitting in the ara?k / chair, and without saying 0110 word took 1 hold of him by . the collar aud threw him out of tho room. Again hi wont up, and was allowed to have a short interview with his wife, but soon afterwards Lord Lonsdale committed another assault by, shaking complainant violently by collar in the passage outside of tho These were the two charges, and complainant expressed his sorrow that he had to bring a case liko this before the coart, but he was compelled to do so on account of previous assaults committed 011 him by Lord Lodsdale. In the evidence given by Mr De Bensuado he said that in Edin - borough Lord Lonsdalo had •' chucked" him out of his wife'a bedroom. Miss Cameron stated that she had commenced proceedings against her husband in tho Divorce Court for cruelty. Lord Lonsdale was fined 40s, the Chairman of tho bench sayinf that tho whole proceeding from first to laat appeared to be very diareputablo when they came to consider the position of the people; and Lord Lonsdale would perhaps remember for the future that the law provided that 110 man should interfere unnecessarily be: tweeiu man and his wifo.