The Daily Empire

THE DAILY EMPIRE.

Remarkable Divorce Case.

The summary of English news by telegraph the other day contained a reference to a case in the English Divorce Court, in which a Mr. Cavendish obtained a divorce from his wife, Lady Elinor Cavendish, and £10,000 in damages from Lord Cecil Gordon, with whom Lady Cavendish had eloped.

The circumstances of this case are such as to make it remarkable, aside from the station in life in which it occurred.

Mr. Cavendish and his wife had lived together in apparent happiness for several years and had three children. Lady Cavendish being at the time of her elopement scarcely thirty years old. Lord Cecil Gordon was sixty years old, married, and surrounded by a family of nine children. His wife was a half-sister of Lady Cavendish, and there was great intimacy between the families; he had been much befriended by Mr. Cavendish, and his treachery in conducting his intrigue was such that the jury added to their verdict the statement that the case was one of the grossest that ever came under their notice.

No explanation is suggested or can readily be imagined for the infatuation which led Lady Cavendish to elope with a man old enough to be her father. It was suggested at the trial, however, that Lord Cecil Gordon was influenced by the fact that a considerable fortune was settled upon Lady Cavendish for her separate use.