Wife of Great Flier Mentioned In Another Divorce

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 8

Wife of Great Flier Mentioned In Another Divorce

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nltUllMIUIIIIIII1llllinilllltllll1t|tl1lllinilMMIIIII1(IIIIIIIIIIIII|lltltltllll11ltltUlltllltlUI1llllllMllllIIMIItlll T AST week, out of a clear sky, just •M as that famous airman, Kingsford Smith : landed m Australia a few weeks ago, there came a sensational divorce case there m which the name of the famous airman's wife was mentioned as one of an alleged bathing party • for two m a .wash-tub on an orchard belonging to Aubrey Leonard Ives. The members of the party that allegedly gathered round the wash-tub m the kitchen of the cottage at Maida Vale were named ' by Lawyer R. J. P. Dwyer m the. Divorce Court, as Mrs. Kingsford Smith and Aubrey Leonard Ives. •■'.,' Ives, "while admitting that he knew, Mrs. Kingsford Smith, denied that' such a thing had ever occurred or that Mrs.. Smith had .even, been to his place at Maida Vale. ' That was the., climax of the Ives v. Ives divorce suit heard before Mr.

Justice -Burnside, when Ethel May Ives (nee Harper) daughter of . . the well - known and popular Nat Har-

, per, and owner of • the Esplanade Hotel, sued for divorce from Axibrey Leonard Ives / on the .grounds of his misconduct with a woman whose name was unknown to her. Lawyer Dwyer appeared with Lawyer Wallace Unmack for Mrs. Ives, and Lawyer Fx % ed. Curran for Ives. It is a 'bit of a coincidence, perhaps, that while Mrs. Ives filed her petition on the very day that she returned, from a two years' trip to England with her father, Kingsford Smith, within a few days of his arrival after a world- renowned air-flight, filed his petition for divorce on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Ives, looking much more youthful than the 30 years attributed to her by her husband, small, well-tailored m • a grey costume, brown-haired and pretty, entered the court on the arm of her father. She was, according to the evidence, denied that, paternal support at her wedding. because she had married Ives against her father's will. . ' ' He had felt so keenly on the. matter i that never since the marriage, according to Mrs. Ives, had he spoken to her . husband. . ' iiMUiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui

Washtub Seance?

iiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiimimiimitimmmiiimimimimiiiiiminiimimiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumi iiiiiiumimiiiiiiitiiiMniiuiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiu»iiiiiui(iuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniliimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimilir Lawyer Curran: When your husband was up at Wiluna, did you ever write to him and tell him that your love for him was .d.cad? Mrs. Ives considered the question for some time. "I might have done," she said finally. * • Did not you tell him that you thought you should live together ,m placid affection? — I don't know. I don't remember that. Ever tell him that he could do as. 1 he-pleased so long as he did not make it too conspicuous? — Oh; I don't think so. I don't think I told him that. "Well; I'll show you the letter. Is that your writing?" Mrs. Ives examined the letter handed to her and admitted that it was ' written by her. ' i it read, "Why can't you take things "as they are and realize that love as man and wife is dead between us, and live together m placid affection? We

were m love when we married, were ,not we? But Ij think that love must always die if you can't live' with-

out tne otner. i am willing to let you have it as long 1 as you do not make it too conspicuous." Lawyer Currah: What did you mean by that? — I don't know. Eric John Fawkes was the first to identify the photograph produced and alleged by Mrs. lyes' petitioning counsel to be one of Mrs. Kingsford Smith, as the photograph of a woman whom he had seen at Ives' place at , Maida Vale . and whom Ives had introduced to him as Mrs. Ives. Fawkes, at appeared, last year had business with Ives. He was a carrier, and carted fruit and produce for Ives from Maida Vale to Perth. He had" started about September 9 and had seen the woman about the place — short, plump, and with dark, bobbed hair. • He did not know who she was at first, but later Ives introduced her to him as Mrs. Ives. On two occasions he was m the house, and. both Ives and the woman were there. "Bring -in Mrs. McKenna and Terry Corboy!" called Lawyer Curran, and the usher disappeared, shouted m the iiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiinuiiiiiimiumiiiiiiiiiiiiiimumiiv

Where Is The Famous Airman's Wife?— Childhood Picture Produced In Court — Judge Cryptic On Truth In Divorce*

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Perth (W.A.) Representative.)

' passageway and returned with a freshfaced young man and an elderly lady — short, plump, and with black, bobbed hair streaked with grey. "Now," said Lawyer Curran, "Isn't this the woman you saw at the house?" Fawkes looked at her, then an expression of awe overspread his face, and he said, shaking his head very slowly, "Oh, no, that's not her. She was a young woman." He said she was certainly not the woman who had been introduced to him as Mrs. Ives. Private Inquiry Agent Lees and his "assistant, Angwin, gave, evidence that they visited the orchard at Maida Vale pn February 9 and that .they saY Ivea a,nd a woman enter the house a little after six. They also saw another man, but he left the house, going to the stables about 9.30. Then they saw the woman come out and get , a tub and then several buckots of water, which she put m a tub m the living-room. ;

Through a curtained Fi'ench window they saw the woman go to another room and reappear m a kimono. She had a bath there. ives was m the room all this time. Ives had* a bath and theji followed her into a room, whence came sounds of a man and woman talking and laughing. : '. Lees and Angwin knocked at the door, and Ives came out m his pyjamas. •.'■•■ Lees asked if Mrs. Ives was m, and Ives said she was away. Lees asked: "Who is the woman m the house?" Ives replied: "You can find out!" Ives threatened to shoot the detectives if they did not get off the pro- , perty. The detectives described the woman as short, plump, with dark, bobbed hair. . • •. A law clerk named Davis said he served a judgment summons on Ives on February 9, and. saw a short, plump woman with d.ark,