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Show NOTED SUIT FOR SLANDER COLLAPSES Defendants Win In Suit Growing Out of En0ish Society Scandal LONDON. March tTTha ault brought by th wealthy young Baroa Arnold Jm Foraat agalnat hie mother-in-law. Lady Mary Gerard, and th latter brother, Henry Mllnrr. tor slander, was tried today to-day and ool lapsed suomsnly when Lord Derby, to whom the aland re r war alleged al-leged to have eonndsa. took tb el aad and .worn tbat tw had ao raooMeetlon of the sua. Shr Edward Clark, counsel for the plaint lit, thereupon annennosd he was unabw to proceed, la view of the lack of evidence and jua-rat for th defendant waa returned. . . ' Baron rta Forest, whose marriage to the widow of Mentor, the chocolate manufacturer of Krsnce, ws annulled subsequently, entered English society snd msmed Miss Gerard, who Is very wealthy, having Inherited moat of the fortune of the lets heron Hlrsch. The wife, who Is described as baantlful nd scomnpllahed, later vanished from her home, and according to th plaintiff, departed de-parted in the company of Lleitf. M. C. fl-i fl-i Aahton of the life guard, and a friend of 'the family. Th plaintiff alleged that tb conduct of his wife ws approved by Led v Gerard Ger-ard and Mtlner In utteranoss reflect In on him. Mlinar, who married the ducheee of Montrose, denlee having uttered the alleged alandera. Hlr Edward Clarke opened th pro OS. 4-bia 4-bia by describing th married Uf of th Da gfloreete, which he aald we happy until on alght tn May. 1", when, after a bell, the baronea refused to go horn with her husband. Instead an went away with lh young gusrdsman.. Aeh-ton. Aeh-ton. and on th next day confessed to her husband tn tha - preeeno f hr mother nd uncle. Mtlner, that ehe bad bean at fault. The matter waa patched op nd th baron. returned to De Forest. , In ths enurs of his statement Sir Edward Ed-ward divulged that it ws th Barone De Forest with whom Aahton eloped to Palm In February, 11, Inetead of the daughter ef a high eourt functionary, m waa reported at th time. .Suheequantly Lea Forest aia ftrgv bis wlfs. |