RENO DIVORCE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1929, Page 4

RENO DIVORCE

N.Z. WIFE’S MOVE. [United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.] NEW YORK, Dec. 17. At Reno, a motion was heard for a new trial in the Jones divorce case (in which Lloyd Jones, the managing director of one of the largest department. stores of Sydney, Australia (David Jones Ltd.,) on July 19th secused a Reno a divorce from Mrs Jones a New Zealander.) The motion for a new trial was argued and denied in the District Court, Reno, to-day, after which Mrs Jones’s attorneys immediately took steps to appeal to the State Supreme Court. The appeal papers are based on ques tions 'of law and of tact, with an especial emphasis upon the length of Jones’s residence in the United States. [Note. —The facts of the case nro as follows: On July 19th last at Reno, Lloyd Jones, of Sydney, and formerly of New Zealand, was granted a divorce, behind locked doors, by Judge Bartlett, from Mrs Jones, who is stated to he a daughter of Mr Jacob Multrus, of Waiwera, N.Z., and 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 Sydney’s largest department stores. The case in July made unexpected progress due to. the fact that the jury were eliminated at the last moment, and that Mrs Jones did not personally testify. - Jones was on the witness stnnd for cross-examination all. one clay. He said that he gave his wife an additional 25,000 shares in the stock of David Jones, Ltd., Sydney, with the understanding that he was to he a free man, and that she consented to his alleged adultery, but the wife’s deposition asserted that she neither connived nor forgave. When the Council granted the divorce • to Jones the plea of his wife for separate .maintenance was refused. The Judge rejected the evidence that the wife presented of “another woman,” The reason for the denial of maintenance was the husband’s showing that, while he. possessed half a million dollars, he had, already .given his wife four hundred thousand dollars, including stock in the. business of David Jones, Ltd., Sydney. There was no contest over the custody of the child, Patricia. .Tones was to see the child whenever he desired.]