A Peculiar Divorce Case.
[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. A somewhat peculiar divorce case is being heard at the Supreme Court, the parties being George Samuel Sankey, petitioner, and Elizabeth Sankey, respondent, and Eoss Trevor, co-respondent. The petitioner was married in May, 1885, and three children were born. He deposed that in 1895 Trevor stopped with him and his wife for 10 months at Matakana. His suspicion being aroused he warned Trevor to leave the houie and he did so. Mrs Sankey followed him. Trevor professed to be a doctor and hypnotist, and his wife pretending to be ill was attended by him. His wife had never" enquired about her children. Evidence was given that the respondent and the co-respondent, who did not appear, were served with summonses at Lyttelton. The Judge granted a decree nisi, and remarked that it was an extraordinary thing that the woman should leave a respectable heme. It looked as if hypnotism was in it. Mr Mahoney, solicitor, said it was certainly somewhat peculiar. He understood that the parties were liviug in destitution.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 380, 23 July 1897, Page 2
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181A Peculiar Divorce Case. Hastings Standard, Issue 380, 23 July 1897, Page 2
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