LONGEST ON RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 12

LONGEST ON RECORD

A SYDNEY DIVORCE CASE

(Beceived 4th December, 2 p.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day..;; A tangled divorce case which has lasted seven weeks with costs totalling £8000 to £10,000, ended with the par, ties as they were at the beginnings Tom St. Aubins Bakewell sought a divorce from Mary Gwendoline Bakewell, formerly Bruell, nee Cantwell, on.' the ground of adultery with her former R Ul band,', ? rUell' and ano^er. Mrs. Bakewell denied the charge, but alleged that her husband committed adultery with three other women and claimed a judicial separation on those grounds.

The judgment traversed a strange" history of marital relations. In lgti Mrs. Bakewell, then Mrs. Bruell, sought" divorce from Bruell on the ground of adultery The suit was undefended,^ and a decree granted, but the Crown/ intervened, and the decree was rescinded because it was shown that false evidence had been given; also that at the time the petition was filed Mrs. Bruell was hying in adultery with ' Bakewell, her present husband. Three years later,' Bruell was granted a divorce on the ground of his wife's aduliS^he?^ 611'^o^6^^

Mr. Justice Owen's judgment took", ninety minutes to deliver! The C as£ is the longest and most expensive in the Isew South Wales State legal reS ords. The Judge found all theallega.-; tions of adultery on both sides provid/and dismissed the suits. He ordered' Bakewell to pay his wife's costs