Sydney Evening News - Friday, April 26, 1895
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NEWS BY CABLE.
(From Evening News Correspondents.)
The Queensberry Family.
FURTHER ECCENTRICITIES.
THE DOUGLAS AND THE
WAITRESS.
London, April 24. -- New York newspapers state that Lord Sholto George Douglas, youngest son. of the Marquis of Queensberry, and brother of Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, who was the cause of the Oscar Wilde scandal, has been arrested in California on a charge of insanity in order to prevent his marriage with a waitress in the State.
London, April 24. -- New York newspapers state that Lord Sholto George Douglas, youngest son of the Marquis of Queensbery, and brother of Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, who was the cause of the Oscar Wilde scandal, has been arrested in California on a charge of insanity in order to prevent his marriage with a waitress in the State.
New York newspapers state that Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry, and brother of Lord Alfred Douglas, who figured prominently in the Oscar Wilde scandal, has been arrested in California on a charge of insanity, in order to prevent his marriage with a waitress.
[Lord Sholto Douglas, who was born in 1872, is a lieutenant in the 4th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was for some time lately in West Australia, where he is largely interested in mining, especially at Coolgardie.]
[Lord Sholto Douglas, who was born in 1872, is a lieutenant in the 4th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was for some time lately in West Australia, where he is largely interested in mining, especially at Coolgardie.]