STORY OF £350,000 WIFE.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1921, Page 1

STORY OF £350,000 WIFE.

NEW YORK, Jim® 7. In a reply covering 59 pages to application of hi s wife, the former chorus girl. Miss I’eggy Hopkins, for the payment of £2.000 a month during the trial of his action lor divorce, Mr J. S. Joyce alleges that his wife cost him £350,000 in ten months. Mr Joyie. who is :i weatlily timber magnate, is petitioning for divorce <n the grounds that Miss I’eggy Hopkins, at the time of their marriage, was already the wife of another man, their divorce not having been made absolute. Mrs Joyce married several times before her wedding with Mr Joyce. Mr Joyce disputes her statement that men become so infatuated with her that she is unable to keep them away from the house, and portrays his wife as a “ huntress,” adding that he i s still in debt on her account til various modists and jewellers to the extent of more than £IOO,OOO. Mr Joyce’s amended complaint contains several additions to the list of corespondents, contained in the original petition. One is cited as a French duke. Another is an Albanian. I'he third alleged co-respondent is a young officer, formerly in the Canadian Grenadiers, who is said to have run so deeply into debt in the effort to satisfy Airs Joyce’s expensive tastes that he shot himself. Fourth on the supplementary list of alleged co-respondents is a restaurant proprietor in New York. To his petition. Air Joyce attaches a list of articles of jewellery bought by In’s wife at his expense. The first item is a pearl necklace costing £82,000 Another is a diamond ring costing £14.000. The total cost of this jewellery is put. at £135,000.

AH 11 OP LA NT M VST 1C I? V. PARIS, .)mu' 20 Mystery surrounds the identity of ft pi to I of nn English aeronlaue which iiitule a I'm Ise landing at Rotichin, non r Lille, jihoul n month ago. The nnichine was damaged. The pilot, who gave his name as Walter Piercv. ami said he was a comnot ilor for theCrand Prix of the French Aem Club, went to the mayor, asking him to mil a man to guard the machine while ho got spare parts. The airman then went, away and has not returned. The mayor has inst boon instructed hv the French Customs authorities to have the* aeroplane seized and taken to pieces, it being an imported object of foreign manufacture for which duty has not been paid.