Show CENTER OP OF MANY sensations th the duchess of buth Dal hirland land who 11 jast just 1 lot 19 9 lafr W d in the course of her somewhat stormy career the tte duchess of sutherland has been the leading figure in nj na berous toos of one kind or another at present ebe she Is bewailing the of 00 north orth of bevi jewels els stolen from her while hile she 4 as from paris parts to london this much begos biped woman soman was as born about five beirs ago the youngest daughter of nm dr richard Ill chard mitchell ail principal of Ifert hertford ford college london while a mere girl she married captain arthur blair sho bo had charge of the duke of sutherland a der deer forests NN ith him she lived in apparent happiness tor for a number of years the captain was killed by the accidental discharge of a sm sim in the duke a hands bands vi while bile the pair were hunting his ills grace naturally took an interest in the widow but when his attention Inns became pronounced the duchess and her family protested vigorously I 1 finding that the duke would not listen to her she and her children left Tren haro harn the magnificent country seat of the family in staffordshire and left his grace and irs blair together in 2885 the luke was taken ery wery ill and the buxom widow nursed him assiduously only when physician physic lan hinted that the duke was in mortal danger would hie his wife come to see him he ile recovered and then his hirs wife and children made a desperate eifort to drive the intruder away they were unsuccessful and again left the devoted pair to themselves almost immediately after this scandal the duke and mrs blair sailed for this country in a splendid yacht but ugly stories followed them and cien eien new ew lork I 1 ork society its doors the duke purchased hated a handsome property in florida where be he and mrs blair v went ent to live abile alle they were ere there ther e the du chesi died and in I 1 less ess than four months mrs 1 blair became the ducle duc tea a of sutherland in september 18 2 the he 1 duke died at bis his ancestral hoy ho e eving tving to his widow as much 0 Is f property pr perty as was as not covered by entail en m a 1 also giving her luring life the use of the family jewels the ery iery diamonds diamond st which ich form part of the stolen jeely jewelry Y the new duke contested the will ill in court on the ground that bis his stepmother had prejudiced her late husband a mind against his children in order to gain of his hi property during the progress of the trial th duchess was vias arrested for burning an important document which she had received judicial permission leelon to inspect on april 18 1893 bhe she was va as condemned to fix six weeks imprisonment in holloway jail tor for this flagrant contempt of court on june 7 1691 2894 the long drawn dran suit was as sett settled leil out of court hy by a compromise be between teen the plaintiff and defendant this gave the dowager duchess beald 9 an annuity of at as in consideration con of these amounts she renounced all title to the residue of the estate in favor of the duke who ho thus mus came into posse poses selon slon of a fortune of 1 I since then the energetic woman ba hai bai i secured t third husband in the person of at sir albert kaye hollitt Rol litt conserva live five member of parliament for one of the london division divisions whom she married two year years ago |