A CURIOUS TRIAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2044, 13 August 1885, Page 4

A CURIOUS TRIAL

A siNfiKK, well known at the Ope"ia (Jonihjue, named Liu-lie, who " l»»tn a tenoi and a baiitone, lias been the lipro of soil)!- irmarkablc matiimonial adventures, which are just now I'ptn^ judicially in vcstigatcd l>y the I',»h Coerts. As a tenoi M. Lh'eiie mimed, about twelve years ago, a young woman in Pans, who liore him two children Si< years after the m-miagc the couple separated, and M Lli^rie left France to 'eik his foitnne in Italy as u baritone. Wink i ngagd at Venice, where he sang in " Hamlet," tl> all conquering baritone captivated tin be.irt ot a young American singer rejoit ing in the itnpicturesi|uo iiamu of Dnms dcy. Mn» Duimdey, although icilyto yield to the blind ai-cents of the baiitone, w is not uuawaie of liis marriage in J'aijo, and was strong minded enough to insist upon a fonral (livouc being piunounccd bttwieii him aud his fiist wife. A ditti unity beie arose, aa at that time divorce m,h not allowed in Fiance, M. Alfied Naqutt not having then made his ap peaiance as a matrimonial law-maker Acting on the ad\ ice of some frtendH the lovtrs appealed to a person named Pa// who inhabited l'odosvar, in Transylvania 'i his individual told them tli it it was the easiest thing in the woilil to obtain a divorce fiom the ecclesiastical tribunal of I'odoavnr, a town which possessed a general reformed church, of which Pazz was head pastor. By libeial payment and buef sojourn in Podosxar the divoice was obtained. Six years after the new union, which was celebrated under the auspices of the accommodating Pazz, the second Madame Lh<sne, who had also given birth to two children, was relegated to the same categoi y as the first wife. M. Lehne, in reply toherobsetva tioi)3, calmly answered that all that hail passed at Podosvar was but a comedy. The second Madame Lherie, however, was determined not to be put off in this manner, and brought the present action against her husband. She claims alimon) to the amount of forty pounds per month The first wife has intervened to oppose any grant of alimony, as it would be tantamount to a recognition of the Tran sylvaman marriage and dangerous to tht interests of herself and her two children A "CGnc orcurcd Muring the h^aungof the action, when Maitre Te>enas made somn uncomplimentary remarks vespeet ing the relations obtaining between Miss Dumsdey and M. LhCiie befoie theii union at Padosvai. The Ahum ican lndv liccamc highly excited, and had som< lieated passages with the acbocatc.