DIVORCE SENSATION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1929, Page 5

DIVORCE SENSATION

» HEARING AT RENO (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 19. Mrs Jones is the respondent in a forthcoming sensational divorce suit, which is to be heard at Reno, U.S.A. She is stated to be a daughter of'Mr Jacob Multrus, of Waiwera, N.Z. and is well-known in Sydney and Auckland. She married the plaintiff, Jones at Remuera, N.Z. in 1917.' The latter is the Managing Director of one of Sidney’s largest department stores. NEW YORK, July 18. At Reno/the Jones divorce case end•ed this afternoon,'with practically ajl of- the testimony completed, and the argument' is set'down for to-morrow. This case has made unexpected progress, due to the fact that the jury was eliminated at the last moment, and that Mrs Jones did not personally testify. Jones was on the witness stand for crnss-examination all day. He said that he gave his wife an additional 25,000 shares in the stock of David Jones. Limited. Sydney, with the understanding that he was to he a free man, and that she consented to his alleged adulterv, hut the wife’s deposition asserted that she neither connived nor forgave.