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Show iAU lor Money. New York, 7. Judge FuiicrlLm. ?pecia! r-ouusei fur ti;e Ljrd UiniiV in I the to dissolve Tnomis Lord's I . ,. irrUge witn WiJow liifka, j--L'j..rta. emphatically, that they -'..-uid p.- ive beyond a qL:Pstion mat the oiri gentleman had been iuveiitJ into the marriage and that his mental condition at the lime was such as to preclude his entering into a contract ol aoy kind. Prior to the marriage they had said nothing publicly about his weakness, simply because they, had too mucn pride to paraJe their lather's infirmities before an umvin-patbiiing umvin-patbiiing public. It was known montQB a0 that he could nut attend to the aiUirs ol the estate, aud the sons were only waiting tor some method bywhhh they could secure the property ayainst loss and at tho same time epare their father's Dumili- ; ation of tbe public exposure of bis weakness. Several months a:o they i endeavored to get him to sign a power of attorney or place bis j estate in the hands ol a trustee, but without etlect. Tbe more me old gentleman could not manage his business the more he thought he could, aud he was so set that there was no couiius to any arraupement with htm. Eullerton also said that many oi the atlidavilsin proceedings, looting to getting the estate iu the hands of a trustee were drawn before the wedding was suspected, as their dates would show. He was himself busy duiing tbo whole of the day preceding pre-ceding tbe wedding, in preparing the case for tbe court. This is no sudden proceeding on the part of the family, but one that bad been contemplated con-templated lor a long time. In re ply lo an inquiry into tbe truth of the story that thn bride has already had $400,000 ot Lord's money, Puller-ton Puller-ton said -she has got nearer twice that amount. Wny that woman only recently had a deposit ol 100,000 in the Bank of England, money that she had wheedled out of him. It is his cash that she has been making this grand splurge on in Lon don and Paris, giving dinuers to presidents pres-idents and noblemen, and makiug such a eensation wherever ebe goes, Tnia whole thing is an outrage, and when the public once begins to understand under-stand it they will see her conduct iu its true colore. We shall prove to the satisfaction ol the commisaioaer and jury, not only that the old geutieman was unfit to take care of his property, but that at the time ol the marriage be was incapacitated mentally from entering into Buch contract and that tbe so-called marriage ib a mere nullity. We shall see whether she will come ofl tbe winner. She is a smart woman, I admit, but she has overdone it this time. On the other hand, those who know Mrs. Lord say that she will tight it out to the bitter end, and that tho family have got a formidable antagonist. "I should not be surprised if she should win," said a lawyer yesterday. "She bae certainly proved more than a match for the woole of them so far." There is no question' that Lord had long previously pre-viously sought the widow Hicks in marriage, without Buceesa. |