IN DIVORCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1925, Page 1

IN DIVORCE.

ANOTHER ODKtrS CASK. [Ausirsilia A- X.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, July 21. AVliai is doscrilied ns un unprecedented story, ovou lor the Divorce Court, was told-day when Alfred Paldwin Paper. :i former member of I lie House of Commons Cor East Islington, sought a divorce from his wile, a daughter of 'William Andrews Tobin. Wingndee Station. New South Wales. She divorced her lirst husband, the Marquis Conyngham. in 1021, and married Halier in 1022. Petitioner charged respondent with misconduct with one. Dan Met/. Sir Id. Marshall-llall. counsel Tor Paper, applied for a hearing in camera. Mr Justice Hill, in refusing, said that though the case was odious and disgusting, he had doubt as to the Court’s power to stop a public hearing. Counsel said that, helore the marriage. Paper realised that his wile, who had ti private income of £IOOO yearly, had a most violent temper and strange eccentric ways. Just prior to file matriage a mental expert was called in. and declared that" under no circumstances must the lady marry. Paper had discovered that the real cause of her illness was alcohol, hut, upon her promising never lo touch il again. Paper went on with, the marriage. Alcohol unfortunately reappeared immediately after the honeymoon, hut the woman managed to eontinue her mourn! life in society. A child was horn in 1023. Owing to Paper being a member ol Ha' House of Commons, every measure was iaken to prevent i lie union nnate domestic secret leaking out. A iolcin

scenes occurred frequently. Dime, after a midnight row lasting ihiee hours, respondent, being under the influence of liquor, broke a hand mirror over her husband's head. She often struck him. once threatened linn with a revolver, and also spat in his lace. Petitioner was forced to leave Iter in 1<)24. She obtain the custody of the child. lo whom petitioner was devoted, Rapei tiled a separation petition in September, 1921, and respondent replied by tiling a divorce petition, in which she made diabolical charges against her husband, including drunkenness, unnatural practices, and gross cruelly. Counsel suggested that the charges were invcnled to try lo prevent the husband, owing lo lear oi publicity, from taking legal action to secure the custody of the child, hut the husband Imd treated the charges as a tissue ol lies, due to the disordered imagination of a woman who was not normal. Petitioner gave evidence that there was not at atom of truth in any ol his wife's charges. She never once complained of any sort of uitkindr.es-, or cruelty, (ill she entered iho cro-s----petilion. The hearing was adjourned. DRAMATIC’ CONFESSION. LONDON. July 23. Tim dramatic confession of the rosuoiident and a renewed application for the hearing in camera were features ol to-day’s proceedings in the Paper case. The respondent gave evidence linn she adored Paper when she married him. and in order that the marriage might he happy and nothing he thrown up at her afterwards she confessed to Pnpei that she had been intimate with two men apart Irom her first husband. One man who belli a very high political position had since died and the oilier ilian was killed in 1 lie war. Struggling with emotion and ilislrerespondent continued: "I wanted to i. ■ absolutely fair lo Paper helore marriage. i never realised that sin h a tiling would he thrown up again against me. Enfortuimtely. I Pld Paper I he men’s mimes."