THE DENTISTOUN CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1925, Page 3

THE DENTISTOUN CASE

FRENCH MAID’S EVIDENCE. AOaTBALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ABSOCJATIOH. (Received this day at 12..‘30 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. An attack of sciatica prevented Dennistoiin attending the court, so other evidence was interposed. Marguerite Pyrronnene (formerly • plaintiff's French maid), gave c\ idenco that plaintiff often described liolin as her lover. He visited her at the bungalow at Boxhill. Witness did not see anything wrong. She was only stating what plaintiff had told her. Witness had seen both Cov.'ans and liolin in plaintiff’s flats in London. Once Cowans arrived unexpectedly when liolin was there, and witness, under plaintiff’s instructions, took liolin to the basemeht til! Cowans “ got out of the way,” which was not long. Plaintiff once said she did not like him as a brother. Witness once alludDeiinistoun as a husband, she just loved ed to the dirtiness of plaintiff’s dressing gown, and the plaintiff explained that it was due to her putting it on the floor so that the caretaker would not hoar Bolin’s footsteps when he was going out late at night or early in the morning. Plaintiff at the Hits* Hotel -Paris, in lf)20, told witness she had been'talking to her husband, with a view to arranging a divorce, after which she intended marrying liolin. Witness considered the plaintiff and I] ini ill were living as man and wile in the fullest sense of the term, during their stay in Barcelona in 1921. While plaintiff was in Barcelona, Cowans telegraphed that he was ill, and would like to see her, hut she did not go. been use she did not like to hurt llolin’s feelings. •wans later angrily telegraphed cursing her because she had been a heartless deceiver.

Witness, - '' cross-examined, declared she was giving her evidence in order to prevent the plaintiff harming anyone. She had banned the witness by making lerrible charges against lew. She admitted she was given a good character later.

The remainder of the day was occupied with the testimony of former maids, also Cowans’ ohniili'eur, relating to plaintiff’s associations with S.mliousc, Bolin and Prince Odescalchi. In adjourning the hearing, Justice MeCardic commented oil the apparent impassibility of finishing this week.