WAR BRIDE’S TROUBLES
COMES FROM ALEXANDRIA TO SEEK DIVORCE.
“I came from Alexandria, to find my husband. When I arrived here I did not live’ with him,” said a young petitioner in the Divorce Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Hosking. The case was one in which Lily Gibbs (Mr. W. Perry) alleged adultery against Harold Ignatius Joseph Gibbs, in asking for dissolution of marriage. Gibbs, said the petitioner, was a New Zealand soldier, whom she married in Alexandria. (Egypt) in 1918. Her family reside there. Soon after the marriage, she continued, her husband left her, and went to England. From that time until she saw him on the wharf nt Auckland she had not known of his whereabouts. After he had left Alexandria, she found a letter addressed to him; and on opening it found it io be from “another woman xn England.” In 1919, after communicating with the writer of the letter, petitioner found, by the woman's admission, that misconduct had taken place. "I communicated with the Commissioner of Police, and found that my husband was back in New Zealand,” said the petitioner, "so I came here from Alexandria. Ho met me on the wharf and admitted his misconduct, so I did not live with, him.” The Court granted a decree nisi.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 4
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213WAR BRIDE’S TROUBLES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 4
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