THE DENNISTOUN CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1925, Page 2

THE DENNISTOUN CASE

DEFENDANT IN THE BOX. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION LONDON, March 10. in the Dennistoun case, Dounisloun gave evidence to-day. lie said lie married the plaintiff in PJIO. Their respective ages were 01 and 21. When lie was 17, he ran away from Eton College to Africa. ILis father bought him out of the Cape Police.

Dealing with the charge that the plaimili' loved another within a few months of their marriage, the defendant said the man was Senhou-e. whom the plaimili took to their home while wi.ness vas absent on guard duty. At that time, he did not realise that there

.iii\lhi|v; it. tdl •»i., 111, • i ('lll'll disclosed something'. Witness inset her. and she admitted misconduct will Henhouse during Dill. He added: "Rut it was not intuit use taking ti] anv attitude, because she was more dominating than I throughout.”

The Judge: ‘‘Why did you not take a strong stand ?” Witness: “Because 1 didn't. 1 married against my father’s will. 1 could have divorced her in Kill, but I had a certain amount of pride, i didn't wish inv father to know.”

Later, .said witness, he heard that tlmre was misconduct with Hcnhou.se. who accompanied them to Scotland. Alter witness returned from Jamaica, she said she had great difficulty in making up her mind whether or not ta go away with Henhouse. Imt sue decided to r.tick to v.it ness. He could not produce her letters, because she asked LhaL they he tern up. li he had preserved them, she could nut, have produced his letters, whi-li did not in themselves present ro.J lads. General Cowans arranged the interview, whicn uphold witness’s Jamaica appointmentwith General Manning, alter which General .Manning gave him a letter to General Cowans, who appointed him to home duty till 1915, when, on his own initiative, lie got an appointment at Gibraltar. It was nut true that his wife told him the General would arrange the appointment, hut it would mean that she and witness woul|l not go on living together. \\ itness 'had no idea there was anything beyond ordinary friendship, or that there was any arrangement bet"ccn the plaintiff and General Cowans.

Describing the incident at the Ri Ist ]lntel in Paris, Donnistnim said the plaintilf was annoyed bet a use Cicneral Cowans hooked her a room adjoining his. in i oiiscqueiice of v. Inch, she got a double room further away. It was untrue that he was aware that >-he was going to commit an impropriety with General Cowans, hater, she wrote from Paris, making a certain statement and I.laming him, and also saying that she did it for his sake. Cp to that time, he was unaware that there had been anything between her and General Cowans. He said: "I loved her. and I continued forgiving her. I probably would now. I gave way to her in everything.'' He said lie had never suggest'd breaking off her relations with General Cowans, lie might just as well have talked to the wall. Hhe

implied that she hived General cuv. all* and was going to live with him. and not with witness. D was not true that he had sold her to General Cowans. He .leiiieil that h" had ever borrowed from the plaintiff;