New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1927, Page 14

SHOWS GLADSTONE AS HEAVY LOVER British Libel Suit Names Several Famous Beauties, Too London, Jan. 28 (UP) — Flung open by a rude commentatos on morals and manners, the historical volume of the Victorian era of so- fas, whiskers and plety today awaited any corrections which may ! have to be made in its records with respect to the alleged marital infidelities of William E. Glad- stone; one of Its two greatest po- litical figures. |ed from an epidemic of abnormal The question before the king's|revelations and it limited division of the English but couched in mod- | ern, non-legal verblage, was this: Would Gladstone, the grand old man of liberalism, have been known as a heavy sugar papa if he had lived today Captain Peter Wright, author of | “Portralts and Criticisms,” infers | that Gladstone would s0 - have been known. | Viscount Gladstone, 73-year-old | son of the former liberal premier, | has interposed a belligerent denial, | with some adverse criticism of Wiright contained in it. Now, Wright has sued for libel and the case is being tried. According to Wright, Gladstone | “pursued and possessed every sort; of woman.” Names Noted Beautles And, to make his contention stick, Wrlght has named Lily| Langtry, famous English beauty and actress; Laura Bell, a profes- sional hawker of her charms; Olga Novikoff, & Russian political agent whose beauty was considerable; a French actress known as Mile. Blavatsky, and the girl friend of a steeple chase jockey. There also was the alleged inci- dent of the rendezvous and the church concerning which Wright | sald that one of Gladstone’s detec- | tive guards had complained that | the liberal premier had kept them | waiting one cold Saturday night in | front of Mile. Novikoff's house and | then had expected them to accom- pany him to church the next morn- ng. It was chilly that night, accord- | ing to the detective's story as re- lated by Wright, and the waiting | was slow. Libel Ts Real Issue The real issue in the case is| whether Viscount Gladstone libelled | Wright by calling him a coward, a | liar and a fool. Wright contended that the charges were unjustified because posthumous allegations of immorality against famous men were legitimate. His attorney men- | tioned a couple of specific in- stances. Emma, the hoyden, who fascinated many men and married Lord Hamilton, his majesty's am- | assador to an Italian state during Napoleonic period, was well known to have been the mistress of ulant Lord Nelson, counsel argued, | nd there was no harm in saying | it. And, then, there was Nell nne, whose pert face and pretty body transformed her from ilower seller to actress and from | bench court of law, the \Z# A Imother of dukes. Although counsel | meaning of the phrase, {“I am very sorry BUY NOW the stage to the love nest of King | Charles II where she became the made no mention of it, some his- | torians have held that Charles’ comparative faithfulness to Nell was one of his redeeming qualities. Charles the Third Nell's attraction for Charles per- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1927. key containing quarters for his of- fcers, dependents and harem, et “hence, a harem; a place for keep- ing wives or concubines: some- times, loosely, & place of licentious pleasure.” sisted even though she occa.s)ona!l,»1THREE FIREMEN riled the king by referring to him as Charles 1II instead of II. That was Nell's little play of words on the generally accepted fact that before the king became her lover DIE IN WRECKAGE e e et oranes ™4 e | Canght Under Falling Walls in The picture of Gladstone which Wright has sought to draw with brushes of hearsay was especlally intriguing to Britain because only recently a law was passed to pre- | vent newspapers publishing ‘details of divorce actions. The law result- | publica- | tion of divorce mews to mere rou- tine. Now comes the libel suit to prove that sexy stories can be told in other than divorce courts and with no law to prevent a full re- port of the procecdings. One Charge Withdrawn { Wright was cross examined to- day. He quickly was compelled to withdraw his references to an al- leged illegitimate son of W. E.| Gladstone. During his testimony | yesterday, Wright had mentioned | an incident of years ago in which | he had seen a man named Cecil Gladstone at Eastbourne, Eng. A | man had told him, V. right said,| that Cecil was an ilicgitimate son | of the liberal leader. Today Cecll Gladstone’s birth certificate and the marriage certificate of his rather and mother were presented The court was packed with men | and women of fashion. Sir ..\r!hurj Pinero, Lord Phillimore, Augustine Birrell, T. P. O'Connor, who s the | “father of the house of commons,” | and the Earl of Malmesbury were | among the spectators. | Pressed during the cross exam- | Ination regarding the source and “Gladstone | was governed by his seraglio, Wright reiterated that Lord Mil- ner had spoken the words. “The word seraglio,” he said, “in the mouth of Lord Milner, who was an artist in words, could not | be applied to a wife or Alaughhr."‘ That Word | Supporting the contention that | the word seraglio referred to| Gladstone's wife and daughter, the | defense read an extract from the | obituary written by O'Connor on | the death of Lord Milner in which it was set down that Milner in re- | ferring to Gladstone frequently | sald, laughingly, “You could not tell what Gladstone was going to do until you knew what his serag- | lio had decided.” The defense showed that ('Connor accepted | the word to refer to Gladstone's | wite and daughter. right expressed regret that his evidence might have caused some pain to Mrs. Langtr: | “It {8 most annoying." he said. | about {t, much ! more than I can say. I would have done anything I could to have| avoided it.” ‘Webster's dictionary defines the word “seraglio” as the former of- ficial palace of the siltan of Tur- New York Blaze (UP)—Res- their Jan. 28 chopped New York, who way cuers through trozen debris today found - of Joseph Heslin, upright stin in the bod: and v the hose nozzie his hands, in the ruins of a build- s ing where he and two other firemen lost their lives fighting a stubborn blaze. The frozen hose was the path along which the rescuers dug their| way to his post of duty. He, Edward Fox and John Grau were buried with seven other firemen when two floors of the seven-story loft building collapsed, sending them with the debris from the fourth to the second story. Five of the others we ken to the ho: pital with ser ries but were expected to 3 The fire started last night. T |nfen dug for the missing man un- der scarchlights all night and he wag not found until after day- | break. |, The men were buried while fight- |ing a stubborn fire that started last {night. The third and fourth floors | collapsed and ten firemen were car- |ried with the smoldering debris to {the second floor. All but three were | dug out. Five were taken to Gou- | verneur hospital, where it was saic | all probably would survive. | The bodies recovered were those |of Edward Fox and John Grau. Priests came to the sceme with the ambulances and administercd | the last rites of the church to the | men still buried in the debris. Mi- |chael Anzelonew as found head down in the debris, his feet held between shattered beams. A priest gave him absolution, but he was ken out alive. archlights were played on the ruins all night while firemen chop- ped through the frozen debris cking the missing man. 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