DIVORCE SUIT
THE JONES CASE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 19th July. Mrs Jones, respondent in a forthcoming sensational divorce suit to be heard at Reno, U.S.A., is stated to he a daughter of Jacob Multrus, of Watwent, and is well known in Sydney and Auckland. She married Jones at Remuera in 1917. The latter is managing director of one of Sydney’s largest department stores. (Australian Press Association) NEW YORK, 19th July. At Reno, the Jones divorce case ended this afternoon with) practically all the testimony completed, and argument is set down for to-morrow. The case lias made unexpected progress due lo tiie fact that a jury was eliminated at (lie last moment and Mrs Jones did not personally testify. Jones was , on the stand for crossexamination all day. He said he gave his wife an additional 25,000 shares in the stock of David Jones Ltd., with the understanding that he was to he a free man, and that she consented to the alleged adultery, but the wife’s deposition asserted that she neither connived at nor forgave it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 7
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