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Show did not think his wife's health or nerves ha suffered during her married life. Her ai' lents were caused by unaccustomed res-trr.. res-trr.. ts. At this point-Sir Edward Clark, representing the countess, asked witness to give an instance of the unaccustomed restraints. res-traints. . 'fhe earl replied that one instance was his liriiting hia wife to six cigarettes , a day. Witness declared that he wrs not unduly anxious to have a son. lie denied that he had ever sworn at his wife or called her a brute or a beast. . He was much annoyed, shortly after her marriaare, by learning that mans of the countess' debts were unpaid. The earl stated that he never kept his wife up in the night time makinir up his accounts. Once the couutes told him that she was "damned sorry she married him. This closed the direct examination, and Sir Charles Russell handed the witnessess over to iMr Edward Clarke for examination. Among the first questions pat to the earl which caused the audience to prii'k up their cars, he referred to the earl's conduct before his marriaye, and in reply to it the carl admitted ad-mitted that, before he married, he had seduced servants, but he said that he had told Lady Mabel Scott, his tlnancee, all the circumfianees, and she found that no scrsou to disc-ird him. Th-j earl said he paid the Williams erirl, .whom he ruined, i'500 down and had sim e paid her A'l a week. The countess objected to his fn?aginf a manservant named Moysc, tut he persisted in his determination to take him back, ssyina: that Moysc was a good servant and not" connected " with the Williams girl. Sir Edward Clarke drew out from the carl the admission that he did not finish his col-Jegevcoursc col-Jegevcoursc at Oxford, havina: been "sent down"' on complaint of having writteu an improper letter. - Sir i,"c?vTv- To a man or a woman? The Earl To a man, I suppose. I never saw the letter nor heard what was in it. I left England for a time and went to America. . Sir Edward bein? through with the witness, wit-ness, Sir Charles Kusscll re-examined him. The earl said that Dr. Jewctt was inrster of Baliol college while he was there. Having dcmanded,but being re fused, an exaniinatifu into the charges made against him in connection con-nection with the alleged improper letter, witness had taken his name off the books of tfic college.- Since leaving Baliol, Dr. Jew-ttt Jew-ttt had invited him to visit there and had come to his wedding. I A VERDICT FOR RUSSELL. ' The Countess Defeated in Her Action for I Separation and Alimony. ! Loxdox, Dec. 4. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Earl Russe'L The announcement an-nouncement was greeted with loud cheers hy the friends of the earl. Earl Russell yesterday told his side of the story in the divorce suit of his wife. He testified that he never heard the slightest objection niade to the presence of Prof. Roberts in his house. He (witness) objected to his wife going to a certain lady's house, and based his objection on the fact that the lady had been divorced. Countess Russell was very much put out by the objection ob-jection to her visits to the lady's house, and iu a quarrel that followed witness said to her: l,If you say such things you will soon be sorry you married me." The countess replied: "So I am sorry." The carl declared that he never insisted that the countess should dress him. If she had not requested him to allow her to dress him he would not have let her dune so. He was very much attached to her, and had tried to make things pleasant for her. He objected to her going to Ascot for the reason that there were several persons there whom he did not wish her to meet. With reference to the charge that when the counters on one occasion asked him after a row for 2T, he threw her a half sovereign, the carl said that it was not true. He was about to give her the money she had asked for, when she said: "I don't want your dirty money." The earl denied the. countess's statement that, upon the occasion when he had written a letter to his soliticitor complaining about her extravagance, he had treated her in a brutal manner. Sir Charles then drew from the earl hi version of the bedroom incident, when the countes3 was found nude in a faint on the floor, as tcntified by her maid. The carl said that, after he and'bia wife had retired, he declared that he would not go to Lady Salishury, owing to the refusal of the conntess to go to Amberly Cottage, the carl's residence. The countcs out ' bed and fainted on the floor. When 6he had come to, the threw a soap dish at him and made for him with a poker. She threatened to throw herself out of the window, if he remained re-mained in the room with her. The earl declared that the statements made by the c untcss that he left her and went to Professor Robert's bedroom were absolutely false. There was not the slightest slight-est reason to suggest any impropriety between be-tween himself and Professor Roberto. The earl admitted that he once used the word "barren" In conversation with his wife, but he only used it In fun. He denied the cruelty to cats that had been attributed to him. Further questioned, the carl stated that |