Show I a L WICKED W ARISTOCRATS BRITISH J i ii i Famous Trials Which Have Been Beef Heard By the Highest Court in in King 1 Edwards dwards Realm t o Inter Inte OceanS Ocean When Thin Bar Russell was sa recently tried before tho bar of ot the house of ot lords In InD D Shore thre tire were ware W re certain features e his hie case ase that were welTe similar In their thel nature n tre to the the last preceding trial tra be before before fore foro that august augst tribunal In both cases ca there was wa a a a woman It I had been be n sixty years since a peer r tad iad been on trial before Earl sarI uel was Arraigned 4 and that was wa the trial of Earl Cardi Card Cardigan gan in 1841 1341 Up to the time of at the trial of ot Earl Cardigan years year had hadel elapsed el without a trial of at a peer per before his peers While in the trial of or tho Earl Barl of ot Cardigan there was wa no mention menton of or In the a womans name proceedings before the house of ot lords and he was WL tried for a felonious assault on a for former former former mer officer o of ot the English army armr yet the Inspiring motive of ot this thie assault or duel was his attentions to the wife of ot this o In the true history hetor of oC the events event event that led up to the te duel of or the thee e earl rl with wih Captain Tuckett Tuckett and the se sequel sequel e quel which took place in this country th re are all al the element of ot a sansa sensa k romance and one ne that tha is worth recalling L March M of or 1864 1854 I came oame ome in as D old crones cronas about country countr firesides said sid like a alion aHen lion Hen full ful of ot howling blustering winds windson windsOR on OR which were borne barne b rne from early orly dawn I to dawn again agIn great gret falls faUs of snow and Hi sleet et that plied piled pUd themselves ankle deep I Ion on street and pavement That first cay ay of or March was an uncomfortable day dayI I for pee yet the day following outrivaled fI It I altogether for late in th lh n a Mow ow dogged rainstorm set setin St StI in 44 1 o that when hen the lamps were vere light Ight i I all al UL of jd orK was a a a tr cat rat at lake laker nt Ce r slush and those who WM had J jt few days before b fore considered the n neIves fortunate fortunate In securing seats ia la i the th Old chestnut Street theatre theatre in Philadelphia for that nights perform performance ance looked Into the th l streets thinking of oC their penetrating damp d mp and cold Fashion Pashion Crowded the House But when the curtain rose a few f v hours later upon the fine old comedy of ot Speed Spee th the Plow Miss Lizzie West Weston on turned to Dolly Doly Davenport with wih the th thIU theman IU man t Is all 31 th the town here Th The question wes was a a natural one for the th house bou was wan literally crowded crowde with wih the tho th fashion and wealth of ot th Quaker city elty They had hR come there through the tho inclement night not that tha thy thay th were ere especially interested in in th the thea a r ll but bUl that they the might do honor to the memory of or a grand old gentleman scholar and soldier Captain Harvey Harv Garnett Phipps Tuckett lately dead He had bad di died d In abject poverty on what wha were to him alien aUen shores but to hi hl hie name there ther had clung dung a halo of o great get deeds done under burning India suns sunn on n battle batth batt days deys dRY and there was vaguely about him a a legend of or moral heroism h of a K noble service done later latr in hL the sacred name of or woman This Th Thursday night had had been set sel apart at al atthe atthe althe the theatre for the benefit of 0 his widow I Iwho whose who first appearance on any stage lg i was va widely announced ed by newspapers and dead walls She played Margery in hi The Rough Diamond and played it I so t remark remarkably remarkably ably abl well wel that she astonished not only her friends but even the artists artiste artst of the theatre When Wh Joseph Jo p Jefferson who played Cousin Joe led le her off or the thet stage t f after arter the te fall fail Cal of the te curtain he jie heMM e MM stid ir Accept Ac pt my congratulations 1 madam no debutante ever played so soWell Well I before nor ever will wl again he hedd hf dd dd fl impressively Imp vel Whereupon the Mow looked Into Int his face fe with her ber I great g at fr frank eyes eye eye and smilingly thanked I him Put But while her eyes eye rested rte on the theartist I artist art t face they were asking a ques question question tion Ar r f it this one How much do I I IOU you OU km w wand v and how much do you ll gus But nf or all al the thousands who crowd crowded crow ed Pd fd the tho theatre that evening and they n st admirers admirer friends or ac qu s of o her hr late few km iv that that petite vivacious black blackey ey syd rl 1 idy lidy hd whose w o bore bare be shoulders white an u Ivory whose bright piquant tnt face fare merry laughter and ch che y voice olce charmed to infatuation her audience had once bt r n the chief heC promoter of an ana anat a at t ir in what came near ner be being betag i ing tag a tragedy y jeopardizing the lives 1 s I ot of f fur ur gentlemen of England and passing into the records of the law as ason a aon on of or the most remarkable cases cues in inOt mo th Ot English Engish state ste trials Earl of o Cardigan Arraigned i on Oh RL Feb 16 James ame Thomas Th nas Brudenell seventh Earl ot or Cardigan was wa tried trie by his peers pr at the 4 b br her r rt f the house bus of lords for an as assault a assault sault sult with wih Intent to murder alleged to toha toha toha ha f c f been committed by him in fight fighting I ing a duel with wih Mr a H G C P Tuckett Tuckett t The earl ear had hatI commanded the regiment of hussars when t in In fla a year or so previous ant anI nong hi hl hh captains was WM Harvey To k tt a cadet of or an ancient and family Captain Captin Tuckett w Wj i t by bY his wife a a young oung Er l li woman of ot exceeding prettiness g grit at harm of ot manner and possessing I Ivry v vry verY r brilliant accomplishments and a wit wi The families of f the regi regiment regiment ment exiled from the th charmed society of Belgravia yet fitted by b birth and edu to be of it I grew clannish In 1 tl atmosphere of India and were I S bound bund together by ties tes of sympathy sy pathy i ad and taste t te unknown in even the more I favored circles circle circes of home hom The colonel clonel I of or the tho regiment an Lin n English peer pos possessing possessing In a remarkable degree bra brav bravery brat ery or t culture and wealth was regarded re by the families of or his subordinates as a something more than a welcome guest guests JS as s one who conferred distinguished by his presence The most beau fiul tul and brilliant woman of that lit t tn lItti tl ti society in India India was Mrs Margaret and upon her the colonel colone be I towed tred his particular favor tavor and counte i ve The Th warm friendship that t up between them was a not only permitted but encouraged by b the c old Id captain who sho impressed a I with ith the hp belief belef that tat his hi young v f ie te e might have kave sympathies in common fommon with wih the earl erl outside of his bin I C own owr life Ute and thought looked gratefully on the te colonels attentions to her and ad heartily heUy welcomed him Wm to toIs I his Is home nome homet t So S n the intimacy continued and rip as a s such s h intimacies do until U well it Jt was wa the old d story stor which we have all aU heard and rend read so often ofen One day day the I captain found upon the floor f or of his chamber cham r a little noT note noie bearing I the name and ad arms nf or Cardigan Calan He Herad Her I read rad r ad it Ird read of ot proposals propos touching nearly his fliS honor and the old mans 6 h was 8 high as he carried carrie it I to his hs hisS S brilliant young wife with younS wit savage and ant questionings Where Were were the t ht others v Denied Dene Existence of Others Other There wen welt err no others upon her soul sul there were no others oters that one was waa wn th fr and lost st only withheld from him lest his bs anger an er against so s powerful an enemy Demy as the earl should destroy him And Ad he poor por chivalric dolt superb I Li his gentle genUe faith blind bUnd in his honest honet old heart hart and anti as easy euy to be fooled as the tho tc Moor her herThen herThen herThen Then came the challenge to the te earl earland e earlI rl I and his sneering reply Do you think I would condescend to fight with wih one of or orm my m own officers Upon that the plucky pluck old man whose wh se Hf life had been bp n spent sJ nt in the service who had ad Won preferment p ferment upon a a dozen hard f fields felds who wo had hoped that some someday day clay ay he ho would terminate his honorable record Icor In battle ratte gave up the hope then and thee the e gave up too all al his chances o 01 of vind nd Intent only onI upon Vind vindicating Ung his honor threw ip tp p his hI hIl l resigned the position poston the thet t I i J I emoluments emolument of ot which were necessary n essat I fW fol fo his support in his bis declining years and surrendered the associations of half a century to remove the earls earls ex excuse excuse cuse and oblige him to an encounter This done he again gin challenged him But the earl ear still stU finding a pretext for his hi refusal again agan declined to light fight i i Ye Yet Who remembering that it was wasI j I i Cardigan wha who whaled led that tat desperate charge of ot the GaUan Six Hundred of ot whom I I Tennyson has ha sung Into and out of ot otI I the jaws df cit ct death deat and the mouth of or hell heU at Balaklava will wi doubt his courage Maybe some nobler heroism than he ever showed on any an field feld he showed that day when he refused to fight with wih the old man man to whose young wife he had written that little note I bearing the name of ot Cardigan i i Shortly Shorty after ater the second challenge I 1 t had been declined the Eleventh hussars I were ordered to England where they arrived ia in il due time and were ver ere sta stationed st stationed I Io o toned at Brighton Immediately fbI fol following ColI I lowing the regiment came Tuckett I pursuing his enemy like fate tate and de determined determined det t to find in England the he satis sats faction denied him In India Indra The op opportunity o of forcing a a meeting upon Cardigan soon presented itself when in I turn the earl became the challenger chan nger I Cardigans Cadigan 5 Discipline Causes Trouble rouble T I In tu th year year 1840 1810 his royal royl highness Prince Princ Albert was wan commissioned as colonel of Cardigans Car ar old regiment the Eleventh hussars the earl ranking as lieutenant eu tenant colonel In his new post position tion ton it became his object to elevate its Is conduct and character so that It I might gracefully and without reproach wear ear I the honorable title tte it i had won that of Prince Alberts own While stationed I at Brighton where the earl was busily intent upon carrying carr ing out his ideas of I discipline he occasioned great great dissat dissatIsfaction i among his officers by the se severity seI I verity of his measures The Time spirit of opposition became so strong that final finally finally ly reference was ivan made to the war of lice by his hi subordinate officers The result resul was that the troubles of the th became matter mater for newspaper lon and nd among the he journals most severe on the conduct of the earl I was wag the Morning Chronicle In which paper was published a series of letters leters over the signature of ot An uAn Old DId Soldier They were rere characterized by great bit bitterness bl bitterness j ternes and personal ill iii II feeling against I the earl who upon inquiry learning that their ther author was Captain Tuckett Tuckett immediately sent him a challenge by his friend Captain Douglass I J On the afternoon of the of Sep SepI I tamber teber 1840 the meeting with his ad adversary adversary I so long sought for by the old I soldier took place About 5 p m from j I opposite directions two carriages ap approached pro ached that part of ot Wimbledon com common common common mon lying between Lord Spencers park and a windmill owned by bya a Mr Dann who ad d to his hI business of a miller that of constable constable Having arrived at atthe the spot selected the seconds made the usual uRual preparations and the principals were stationed at a distance distan of twelve paces pace Both oth the captain and the earl carl I fired fr simultaneously b without effect 1 when some efforts were made by the I seconds s to effect a reconciliation But the old soldier was ws in terrible earnest and meant mischief He had sacrificed position ton money and preferment only that he might stand as a he then did facing his pistol and covering him with wih his own He had ha waited too n i long while for this opportunity had dragged dra bed his old bones all al the way from I India to bring it i about and while he waited and struggled struggle for it i his heart hear waS wearing itself out in despair lest the th meeting should never take place I Perhaps the te earl cared no stop their deadly play than did the captain so It again went Wet on They each re received elv d another pistol and it I was af at afterward afterward remarked among the club men in terms not complimentary to the noble earl that he lie had on both occa occasions occasions slon used rifled pistols while the cap eap captains were only the usual smooth smoothbores smoothbores smoothbores bores boresT Tuckett T Th kett Wounded in Hip Rp They again fired fred when Tuckett fell feH having laYing been shot in the hip and he carried with wih him to the day of his death an wound and limp Sir James Jumes ames Anderson Ard who accompanied the party as surgeon went up immediately to the th captain captin and although the latter bled very freely fre ly his wound was pro pronounced pronounced not necessarily fatal At this point Mr Dann the miller mier with wih fine discrimination the sport which he did not wish to disturb being over overstepped overstepped overstepped stepped up and arrested the whole party and carried them before the magistrate at Wandsworth by whom they were bound over to appear at the following sessions to be held at the i central criminal court A prosecution was begun and bills bis of ot I indictment were laid before the grand jury jur against Captain Tuckett and his I second Captain and also against the earl and his second Cap Captain tain tam Douglass The charge charge was as assault assault assault sault with wih intent to murder the pen penalty penalty alty alt if guilty death The limitation of jurisdiction of ot the i Judges of oC Old ld Bailey prevented them i from trying the earl whose offense orense he j was entitled by his rank to have in inquired I qui red of and passed upon only by his 3 i I peers Under these circumstances the j court determined not to try tr the others j I until the guilt guit or innocence innocenc of the earl 1 had been established Parliament Parlament did not assemble until the I l th of ot January 1841 and as soon oon there thereafter there thereafter after as the forms fors of or the house of lords I would permit peri the bill bm of Indictment against the earl was removed by a writ of ot certiorari from the lower court that I their lordships might determine upon I the matter mater The fact that the trial would not as ashad 3 I had been the ancient custom in Westminster hall hal had become known I to the public and also that the painted I chamber which had been used for par parliamentary ses se by the peers since the destruction n of ot the old house by b fire fre was being prepared for the imposing spectacle For a period of oC years no peer of or England had thus claimed this peculiar |