A STRANGE, TRUE STORY

The Langworthy Marriage,

CHAPTER XX

AFTER DAKKNESS LIOICT AT LAST,

The distinct and emphatic denial that there had been any form or ceremony of marriage, or pretended form or ceremony of marriage, was not the only lie which* Mr Langworthy told to the author of that affi davit. In its fifth paragraph, Mr Groves, after stating that Mrs Langworthy had shown him what purported to be a certifi cate of marriage between him and the peti tioner, as well as a letter written 'by him to her in which he addressed her as his wife, proceeds as follows :—

" The respondent thereupon vehemently repudiated the idea that anyone had any right to give such a certificate, and stated that the person who gave it ought to be prosecuted, and, as I was subsequently in formed by said respondent that a summons was issued against such person at the in stance of the Procureur Royal of the King of the Bolgians, to explain his conduct for having given such certificate, but it was ascertained that said person had left Ant werp, where such alleged marriage is alleged to have taken place, for New York. The respondent, moreover, denied that ho had ever written a letter to the petitioner in which he had called her wife."

That affidavit was sworn on June 23rd. As has been stated, it barred the claim for alimony, and the Registrar, seven days later, ordered Mrs Langworthy\to file par ticulars of the marriage in ten days, to gether with the original marriage certifi cate and letters from Mr Langworthy. Particulars were not filed until September 30, when tiled were declared to be insuffi cient, and were ordered to be supplemented by further particulars. Before .these fur ther particulars were filed, " I, Harrington Charles James Groves, of the firm of Messrs Bircham and C 0.," made another affidavit, in which Mr Langworthy's lie about his correspondence with his wife re-appears with a noteworthy variation. After say ing that he had inspected the letter written on January 12, 18S2, in which Mr Lang worthy addi"essed Mrs Langworthy as dear or dearest wife, Mr Groves proceeds :—

" I subsequently informed my said client, the above-named respondent, that I had seen such a letter, whereupon he denied that he had ever written a letter to peti tioner wherein he had addressed her as ' my dear ' or ' my dsarest wife,' and stated that if such a letter was in his handwriting, it must have been a letter written by him to his late wife."

Lady Alice, who died in 1876 ! On December 5, Mr Groves made another affidavit, in which Mr Langwovthy's lies are duly repeated on oath, and application for a further postponement of the hearing of the application for alimony until Mr Langworthy's own affidavit arrived. It was expected in the course of a month or six weeks. Mr Langworthy's affidavit never came to hand. The claim for alimony was ruled out on Messrs Bircham's affidavit alone. The litigation continued to drag its slow length along. On February 10, 18S5, interrogatories were administered to "Long, falsely called Langworthy," by Messrs Birchain. They were answered, and further answers were ordered on two points. In the meantime, by a great stroke of good fortune, the Rev. Dr. Potts, who had solemnised the. marriage, came over from New York to London. Application was at once made, and on March the 16th, 1885, granted, to take his evidence before. an examiner, both parties being represented. Mr R. J. Parker, of 2, New Square, was named as special examiner. The ex amination took place at the Law In stitution, Chancery Lane, on March the 20th. Mr Bayford, who had not then attained to silk, examined Dr. Potts for Mrs Langworthy, and he was cross examined by Mr Middleton on behalf of the respondent. His evidence was per fectly clear and straightforward. It proved Wond a doubt that he had celebrated the marriage of Mr and Mrs Langworthy, as stated by the latter, and although he was not very well up in the Belgian law of mar riage, he made it absolutely clear that he had acted in perfect good faith, that he had performed the marriage ceremony of the American Presbyterian Church ao the re quest of Mr Langworthy, and that he had married in the same way at Antwerp two other couples, one English and the other American, to the validity of whose marri age no exception had been taken. Messrs Bircham wrote to Mrs E. d. "Bailey, of Pittsburg, who was one of the witnesses of the wedding at Antwerp, say ing that their instructions were that no ceremony of marriage had taken place, and asking her to describe in as full and ample manner as possible what actually passed on the occasion when she signed the certificate. Mrs Bailey wrote and told them what took place confirming the statement of Dr. Potls on every point. Dr. Potts himself wrote to Mrs Langworthy as follows: — "Be assured that your interests are not a matter of indifference to me, and that I am urged by the sincerest sympathy to stand by you if any injustice is being attempted. lam certain that you and your husband must both re member the solemn vows made in the mar riage ceremony at Antwerp before two liv ing witnesses, and according to the legal form- which I am accustomed to use as a Presbyterian minister. In the sight of God it was a true marriage, by the vows made by both parties in the sight of the witnesses it was a true marriage,.and only by contemp tible quibble of the lawisit possible to deny it. Be sure that I will do all in my power to prevent such a wrong from triumphing;." .At last, after two years of intense misery, a ray of light seemed visible through the gloom. CHAPTER XXI. THE ETHIC 3OF PR LANGWORTHY'S SOLICITORS- When an honest and respectable solicitor finds that he has-been instructed falsely by a disreputable client, what is the course which that solicitor ought to pursue ? When tHese false instructions only concern the affairs ef the client, the solicitor may decide, according to his inclination or ca price, whether or not he will resent it by re fusing to act any farther for a man who lies even to his confidential advisers. But when the false instructions given to a solicitor lead that solicitor to swear an affidavit that defeats for the time the ends of justice and inflicts'injury upon an innocent person, then, according to the ethics of an honour able profession, it might be thought that a solicitor has no alternative but to refuse to hold any further relations with a miscreant who has lied to his confidential advisers. Such at least, is the train of reasoning that commends itself to the lay mind as at once cogent and irresistible, and it appears to have presented itself in the same light to Messrs Lumleyand Lumley. [COPY.] "37, Conduit-street, Boiri-sfcreefc, March 24, ISBS. « LANGWORTHY V. LANGWORTHY. « Vt&F. Sirs,—We think it right that we should call your attention to the present position of this matter. "The Rev. Mr Potts has now been ex amined on oath by our counsel, and cross- Sined by yours, and the result leaves no doubt thatymu- client did go through the solemn ceremony of marriage with Mrs Laneworthy, our client. "In your correspondence, and in your affidavits, you state that there was no mtmll .pf marriage gone through, but

this having now been distinctly disproved by the sworn evidence of the clergyman who performed the ceremony, we would nsk whether it is your intention still to sup port the assertions made to you by your client, and by the weight of your firm's '.veil-known honourable position to aid Mr Langworfchy's disproved assertion. " Wo shall be glad to hear from you in reply, and are, dear Sirs, yours faithfully, "(Signed) Lumley & Lumley. * " Messrs Bircham and Co."

To this suggestion, surely not an un reasonable one under the circumstances, Messrs Bircham and Co. replied as fol lows :—

"46, Parliament-street, Westminster, "S.W., March 25, 1885.

" LANGWORTHY V. LANGWORTHY,

"Dkar Sirs,—ln reply to your note of yesterday, we can only repeat what we said in conversation when we last saw you. Mr Groves's affidavit does not state (as you say it does) that there was no ceremony of marriage gone through between the parties, but that the respondent had denied that there was any such ceremony. That is no more than the fact. Mr Po.tts's evidence no doubt goes the other way ; but it is as yet unconfirmed, and there may, for aught you know, be quite another version of what passed. Our client is unfortunately on the other side of the globe, at a very uncomeat able spot, and we are therefore at some dis advantage in not being able to communi cate with him as freely as you can with your client. " The main question is, has there or has there not been a valid marriage ? and, even taking Mr Potts's evidence as it stands, we can scarcely suppose that even you would seriously contend that there has been such a marriage, or that a Presbyterian minister of the United States has, under any cir cumstances, power to celebrate marriages between British subjects in a foreign State. It will be for the Court to decide the point when it has all the evidence before it. Meanwhile, we do not feel that we are called upon to say more in reply to your in quiry than that it is still our intention to dispute the validity of the alleged cere mony. —Yours faithfully, " Bircham and Co. CHAPTER XXII. INTO COURT AT LAST. The Orders of Chivalry have passed away. The spirit of chivalry is eternal. Of the old Templars there but remains tho name which clings to the site of their ancient habitation, where bowigged barristers of the Temple get up their briefs before enter ing the lists of the legal tourney on the other side of Temple Bar. In the " Idylls of the King " the master poet of our later day has familiarised us with that " long vaulted hall " in Camelot, that " city of shadowy palaces," where Arthur sat as King '' to help the wrong' thou all the realms." For the rescue of Lady Lyonors besieged in Castle Perilous the fair Lynette now may plead in vain. No Lancelot, nor even Gareth the kitchen knave, will crave the quest to succour her. Distressed ladies fail not; but where are the knight 3 ? In one sense it may be said that they are in the Courts of Justice. The ermined judge, representative of the im partial goddess, sits to right the wronged, and to crush the wrongers of the realm. The barrister is the modern substitute for the "very gentle perfect knight" of Chaucer's time, and the law, sacred in its incarnation of horsehair, silk, and bom bazine, is supposed to have left no work for the errant brotherhood. Let us, then, see how it will faro with the injured heroine of this overtrue tale, when for the first timo after long delays she was able to bring her case before our Court. it was now June, 1885, two full years since Mr Langworthy had shipped his wife home to Europe like a rejected parcel of damaged goods. All this time she had been suing, and vainly suing, for redress. In these two years her husband had re turned to England and departed again for America, not troubling himself about the woman whom he had abandoned more than was necessary to emit a lie, which, being duly served up in affidavit, had barred her from all maintenance pe.nde.nte lite, and had exposed her to tho odium which attaches to a woman branded as an untruthful adven turess and a cast-off mistress by the man to whom she claimed to be married. Mr Lang worthy had been living in the luxury of a South American nabob. His wifo had been left to struggle without means in the great world of London. During these two years she ought to have succumbed. But she was of stouter heart than the cats whom he used to drown in the well of the Hotel Braganza, and she still kept her head above, water, with provoking persistency. For tvo long years the battle for life, and for her fair fame, which was worth more than life, had been waged against overwhelming odds. The case was down at last on the list, and on June 20, 1885, it was called in Court. Down to that hour Mr Langworthy through his solicitors had denied that there had been any marriage, ceremony of marri age, or pretended form or ceremony of mar riage. It was necessary to do so in order to bar out the claim for alimony, and it was safe to do so as long as the case, could be kept out of Court. Now at last the truth was about to come light, and Mrs Langworthy's heart rejoiced in the hope that her long tribulation was drawing to an end, and she would now be righted, for the High Court of Justice would vindicate her position in the eyes of the worid. CHAPTER XXHL " THE SLOW DRAG CHAIN OF THE LAW'S DELAY." Mrs Lancjworthy had begun proceedings in midsummer of 1883. Barrier after barrier had been raised against her to prevent her bringing - her case before the world. Great is silence. Every effort had been made—and successfully made—to keep the indignant cry of the. outraged wife from being heard- by the great public. Alas! who can say how many similar voices, tremulous witb anguish; there may not be even at- this hour vainly striving .to makp themselves heard, .and striving in vain ? Recall for a moment, the difficulties placed in Mrs Langworthy's way which had to be overcome before she could get into the witness-box. In telling her story of her battle one important chapter was inadvertenly omitted. How is it, people say, that although the resolve to apply to the courts was taken in June, 1883, the citation was not issued till December ? The cause of this delay is easily explained. When Mr Langworthy sent his wife adrift at Buenos Ayres, he wrote her a letter, already printed, which begins: "In accordance with your wish to retxirn to Europe and live near Frankfort, I have arranged that the sum of L2O per month shall be placed to your credit, &c." As she had never expressed any wish to return to Europe, beyond scribbling a wild and frenzied appeal to be sent home to Eng land rather than be left to die—as the doctor assured her she would—at Buenos Ayres, while her husband went shooting at the isle of St. Thomas, it was difficult to understand why he had prefaced this letter of imperious and insolent brutality by what seemed a wanton and altogether unneces sary lie. When, however, Mrs Langworthy made her first application to Mr Registrar Middl'eton, the significance and utility of this seemingly wanton falsehood were apparent. Said the Registrar, or. penis in| the letter which was produced when the application was made for a citation and alimony pendenle tile, "But from the letter it appears that Mrs Langworthy has left her husband at her own wish. W c can not call upon Mr Langworthy to restore Mrs Langworthy to her conjugal rights until it is clear that he has refuged, them,.

This letter seems to show that Mrs Lang worthy has left at her own request." The application, therefore, failed for the time, and nothing could be done until the de mand had been served upon Mr Lang worthy to return to cohabitation. Thus the first trick had been scored by Mr Langworthy, and his wife was compelled to wait before she could even begin proceedings for her rights until she had heard from South America.

Her lawyers wrote to Mr Langworthy. She wrote to Mr Langworthy. But Mr Langworthy lay low and replied never a word. He wrote indeed to her a letter in July or August immediately he received the demand for the restitution of conjugal rights, but instead of posting it, in which case she would have received it, and have been able to produce it to the Registrar as proof that he had received her letter, he entrusted it to his cousin. His cousin con fided it to Messrs Bircham, and Messrs Bircham placed it on one sido in their strong box, nor was its existence known to Mrs Langworthy until November in the following year. This absolute silence, this stolid indifference to the plaints of his wife, was his second line of defence. It was nearly six months before it was brought down, and the absence of reply was held by the Registrar to be sufficient proof that he had received the letters, and had refused to restore Mrs Langworthy to her conjugal rights. The third obstacle was the false assertion made by Messrs Bircham's representative that Mr Langworthy in March, 1884, was in such a remote region that a delay of several months must be accorded before he could file his reply. This would have been suc cessful but for the. dream which enabled his wife to prove that at the time he was said to be in South America he was really within a few hundred yards, of Somerset House. On that point Mrs Langworthy came off victorious, but the foe was not routed, ho only fell back behind another line of defence.

This was to dispute the jurisdiction of the Court by denying that Mr Langworthy was domiciled in England. This was an in genious device. The protest was entered April 7, and the protest was not abandoned until May 20. Mr Langworthy and his ad visers then admitted the domicile, in order to secure a legal decision in favour of the nullity of his marriage. The plea had secured a couple of mouths' delay, then it was dropped, only to be revived again this spring, when it was found a convenient pre text to oppose the issue of an adjudication in bankruptcy.

The iifth and* most fatal of all obstacles was the lie that no " form or ceremony of marriage, or pretended form or ceremony of marriage, was at any time performed or gone through between him and tho peti tioner." This led to the refusal of alimony by which she was flung out on to the world branded by her husband as a perjured ad venturess.

After that a whole year more was wasted in legal fencing. Even after the Rev. Dr. Potts's evidence had proved conclusively that a ceremony of marriage had been gone through, Messrs Bircham and Co. dis credited his evidence as " quite uncon firmed," and hinted that "there may, for aught you know, be quite another version of the affair." That was in March, 1885. It was not till June that they were actually able to get into Court. CHAPTER XXIV. " MY LORD, WE ADMIT EVERYTHING." Mrs Langworthy breathed a great eigh of relief as she entered the Co art. At last she was to be allowed to enter the witness box and testify to the way in which she had been treated. Tho whole story of her wrong was to be set forth in opon court on her oath and through the press to the world. Great is the power of publicity. It is often the last hope of the oppressed. And not with out cause ; for although

The knight is dust, And his good sword rust, in Englishmen the fire of chivalry is not extinct. Only let them know of foul wrong or grievous injustice wrought to lady,, damsel, or gontlewoman, and al though a thousand blades would not leap from their scabbards, yet timely and effi cient help will be still forthcoming, although Sir Kay no longer serves as seneschal in King Arthur's hall, and the brand Ex calibur hews no more a red corse-paven way through the heathen hosts. The difficulty is in letting them know. In their ears scand many voices, multitudin ous as tho waves on the shore ; every one is preoccupied, our own life's struggle absorbs our attention. Who can make men halt to hear a tale of wrong, but one among so many ? There is but one means—by the wide publicity of the law courts, whose proceedings are reported by the newspapers ; for the press is the speak ing-trumpet of the poor, the downtrodden, the oppressed. Tho press is the crier by whose aid the wail of the outcast can pene trate the palaces of Kings, and the plaint of the widow and the orphan make itself heard by those who have power to right wrong -and do justice. And Mrs Lang worthy, after two years of cruel suspense, hoped once more, as she thought that she would be heard, and that the story of her wrong would not fail to bring her prompt redress.

When the case was called, Sir James Hannen was on the bench. Messrs Lumley, with a spirit of chivalrous devotion to the cause of their client, had retained the ablest counsel at the bar. Mr Gladstone'e Ad ministration had just gone out. Lord Salisbury was forming his Cabinet, and it was yet uncertain whether the Lord Chan cellorship would go to Lord Esher or to Sir Hardinge Gifi'ard. The latter, had been retained for Mrs Langworthy. He had accepted the brief, the last, it is said, he ever held, and he was much interested in what he described as the cruellest case he ever knew. Before the case was called Lord Salisbury's choice was made, and Sir Hardinge Giffard, leaving the bar for the woolsack, was compelled to leave his briefs to those who remained behind. Thus it came to pass that at the last moment Mrs Langworthy's case wa3 handed over to Mr Willis, Q.C., who had barely time to read his brief before he came into court, and with him were Mr Bayford and Mr Rose Innes. On the other side were Mr, now Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., Mr Inderwick, Q.C., and Mr Middle ton. Two Q.C.s and a junior, instructed by Messrs Bircham, stood arrayed to do their legal best to free Mr Langworthy from the obligations into which he had of his own free will deliberately entered, and to destroy the last'hope of the unfortunate lady who was appealing to law to give her justice. Mrs Langworthy's heart sank within her as she saw Sir Charles Russell rise in Court on behalf of her husband. The great ad vocate was a near neighbour of hers. They both came from that north-eastern corntr of Ireland which has contributed so many distinguished citizens to the service of the Queen. It seemed hard to her —so irrational is a woman's heart—that he, her neighbour and fellow countryman, should enter the lists against her. But what was her amazement when the first words which fell from his lips were.

" My lord, we admit everything ! We only challenge the legality of the mar riage." Mr Bay ford : Do you admit the ceremony of marriage ? Sir Charles Russell: We admit every thing. Mr Bayford : Do you admit that this 'is the lady with whom the ceremony was con tracted ?

Sir Charles Russell: Yes, We only .dis pute the. validity of the marriage, and apply for a delay to bring over witnesses from Bel gium.

(Eo lie Continued Xo-morraw^

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAft, TUESDAY, JTJIY 26. 1887,

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