OFFICER'S MISS

NZ Truth, Issue 1150, 15 December 1927, Page 7

OFFICER'S MISS

—-—r*T~ —~ Proves To Be Trie Other Man's Mrs.

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) "l am nobody's fool!" John Weller told his wife,, Hinemoa Dolly Weller, one day in Queen Street when he saw- her in the company of Thomas David Young, , the latter resplendent in his petty officer's uniform. JOHN and: Dolly were married on April 3, 1923, the wife being a native of the Bluffy In the years' that followed, before fiusband and wife came to the conclusion that they would agree much better if separated, three children . cairhe along. It was when John saw Dolly in the company of Petty Officer Thomas D. Young, of the H.MiS. Philomel, that he, asked himself a number of questions and finally decided that the solution Did Not Know 1 to them was to be found in a Divorce Court. A thin, worried-looking young man. John Weller was championed by Lawyer Alan Moody when he, petitioned Judge Reed for his freedom from Dolly on the grounds of her misconduct with Thomas D. Young at the home of Mrs. Harriett Francis Lindblom, of Farrar Street, Ponsonb'y. Lawyer Sullivan, who appeared for the co-respondent Young, intimated that the misconduct was admitted, but that his client was not aware at the time he was living with Mrs. Weller that she was a married woman. John. Weller told the court that, he knew the co-respondent by sight only and had seen him in company with his wife several times. One day when he met the pair in the street he stopped his wife and told her that he was nobody's fool indicating that he knew she was "knocking" about with Young. Harriett Francis Lindblom Stated she had let a small room to Mrs. Weller from February until June, 1927. She knew that Mrs. Weller and her husband were living- apart. Young had often visited Mrs. Weller and witness had often seen the two together. Both Mrs. Weller and Young told her of the disturbance in Queen Street when John,. Weller had stopped them and his wi£'.'*ad smacked his face. Cross-examined by Lawyer Sullivan, witness said she was told by Young that he had "taken" to Weller on that occasion and had invited him to go round into a back street where he would knock his head off. A smart-looking, well-built young Petty Officer man, Thomas D. Young, wearing naval uniform, stated he was a petty officer of H.M.S. Philomel. He met Dolly Weller at' a dance about February, jt, 1927. At the time he was introduced t to her he knew her only as Dolly.. Not at any time between February and June, 1927, was he aware that she was a married woman. She never .-Wore a Wedding. ring and he understood she was single. Judge Reed said he had no doubt -< that Young was aware, .that Mrs. \ Weller. was a married woman when the ,- misconduct took place. '-« Lawyer Moody asked for costs \-\ against the co-respondent on the Aigh- *? est scale, but his honor refused to do vT' so, adding: "The woman's -no good < evidently, Mr. Moody." ' .t, John Weller was granted his dser«i> 0 to become absolute in three, months. V 1