TOO MANY NAMES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3803, 9 June 1928, Page 4

TOO MANY NAMES.

WOMAN DROPS TWO

“I DID NOT LIKE THEM.”

“My husband always called me Edie,” declared a petitioner in the Wanganui sessions of the Supreme 'Court last week. This explanation was made in the course of a temporary hindrance in divorce proceedings when variance was discovered in the names of the petitioner, Mrs. Earle, who had four—

Mary, Emily, Edith and May —at her disposal, but preferred to call herself Edith May. The case was definitely started before counsel for petitioner, Mr. W. J. Treadwell, and Mr. Justice Reed found the changing nameSk “I never ever look the other names because I did not like them,” explained Mrs. Earle mildly when informed that she was two names short in her petition. Mr. Justice Reed: But it’s important, The question may some day arise as to whether you have beep divorced. Two names only also appeared in the legal notice in a newspaper exhibited in Court. “William Edward John Earle may have read that and have told himself that he had no wife named Edith May,” sard Mr. Justice Reed. (Laughter). “I don’t know ovhnt would have happened if petitioner had tried to marry again.” It was disclosed that using only two of her names, petitioner had obtained separation and maintenance from her husband.