STRANGE DIVORCE STORY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 6

STRANGE DIVORCE STORY

I" the Divorce Court, London, recently, before Mr. Justice Low, a singular divorce story was told in a case in which a railway hand named Griffiths, of. Merthyr Tydvil, asked for a dissolution of his marriage on the ground of misconduct. The parties were married a „t Cardiff in 1904, and at Christmas, 1910, the wife wont to visit the co-re-spondent, AVm. Addicott, at Caerphilly and afterwards went to live with him. Petitioner, in his evidence, said that alter his wife left him he met her at the grave of his eldest son at Merthyr lydvil, and she then confessed her lapse. Subsequently he was asked to go to the house of the co-respondent's parents, and there Addicott offered him £1 it he would sell his wife to him. Corespondent's mother, who was present at the time, said it was a very good offer AYitness declined, and left the room. The Judge: Js it a conimon thing in your part of the country for a man to be offered £1 for his wife? Witness: I never heard of it. ' You did not seem to bo very an»ry about it?—l was angry, but I kept my place.

I .take it that hardly anything would provoke you'-Oli, yes; but I had sufficient control over nivsolf to keep mv hands quiet.

I'he Jwlge, in granting a decree nisi observed that he was satisfied that petitioner had made out his case, but it was one that required looking into.