A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Captain Albert Carstairs of the Royal Irish Rifles, son of the late Mr J.S. Carstairs, of the Bengal Civil Service, and Fanny, daughter of Mr J A Bostwick of 800 Fifth Avenue, New York
In the Divorce Court today, the case of "Carstairs v Carstairs and Francis" came on for hearing.
This was the undefended petition of Captain Albert Joseph Henry Carstairs for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of the misconduct of his wife, Francis Evelyn (nee Bostwick) with a Mr Francis Francis, whose position was not stated.
From counsel's statement it appeared that the wife was an American lady, and that the pair had lived happily together up to the outbreak of the war in South Africa. Captain Carstairs went to the front, suffered from enteric (?), and was nursed by his wife, who visited the Cape. She returned before her husband however, and when he reached home he noticed a great change in her affections. Then, continued counsel, he secured information of what had happened, and as the wife refused to give the other man up, this suit followed.
His lordship eventually granted a decree nisi, with costs against the respondent and co-respondent.
Mr. Deane said the question of the custody of the child was the subject of a pending action in Chancery. There was no objection to costs being given against the lady, as she was a lady of substantial fortune.
Captain Albert Joseph Henry Carstairs has secured a divorce from his wife, formerly Miss Frances Evelyn Bosthwick of New York, on the grounds of infidelity. Mrs Carstairs who was very wealthy, contested the suit and charged her husband with infidelity and cruelty but the evidence was all against her. Carstairs, who volunteered his services in South Africa, was out there more than a year and during that time Mrs. Carstairs met a playwright named Francis and fell in love with him. Carstairs fell ill of fever, and his wife went to South Africa and nursed him. She then returned to England and when Carstairs returned some months later he learned his wife had been unfaithful to him, and that Francis had lived with her at her mansion near Newbury, and also at Monte Carlo and Paris. Absolute evidence of adultery, found in the correspondence between respondent and correspondent, when the husband had impounded, left no doubt of guilty relations.