DIVORCE CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 8

DIVORCE CASE

CROWN INTERVENTION

THE WOMAN'S STORY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 8.

Giving evidence in the divorce case of Geoffrey Squire Radley, in which the Solicitor-General is intervening in a motion to have the decreenisi made absolute, ; the respondent,. Mrs. Radley, stated that/she was married,to the peti-tioner-in" 1913.- There were .five children of the marriage. . Her hdsband first left her^ in. 1927, and shortly afterwards/she' received.a letter' from his solicitor,; who ■.invited hereto sign a deed ■, of separation. Later she per-' suadedthe petitioner to return to her, but .several incidents1 concerning, .an-, other woman subsequently occurred. In 1929 she received another request. for separation. In refusing,, she told the petitioner's solicitor that the petitioner was making a fool- of himself and would.get over his infatuation.: < Tracing' the history of her married life.prior to the signing of the agree-' ment of separation in August, 1932,. Mrs. .Radley said that on one occasion when she,.remonstrated with her husband^ about his visits to a home at Milford he kicked her out of i bed on to the-f100r..; .As a result her right side was bruised. . On another, day hepinned her to a. wall while a boy. packed her: children's-clothes, an action to which1 she took "exception. During atour of Britain and the Continent the petitioner at first refused to' give her a ticket back to ' New Zealand and ! warned her . against returning to _ the Dominion. The respondent outlined subsequent requests she received for the signing of a separation deed, and said that in December, 1931, her husband mentioned going to Papatoetoe to live, and when she declined he removed all the furniture from the house in Epsom, three . children and herself staying on in the empty house. The respondent said that a settlement was arranged "in 1932,1 and in November she took up her residence in Christchurch, and her husband's first hostility was gradually broken down. She saw him and communicated with him every week and he took her out in the car frequently in succeeding months. On June 9, 1934, he discussed the pos- | sibility of her going back to live with him, and on June 13 she agreed to the proposal,' but after July -12 she saw little of him, and, with two of their daughters,, he left for England in May, 1935. When she visited the house in July during her husband's absence, another woman who had taken charge of the home attempted to "push her out.'". ".She'discovered letters written by her husbandto the woman she met, and later a . son dragged her out of the drawing-room and threw her down the front steps. In October she was served with a petition for divorce. The hearing was adjourned until tomorrow.