Runaway Couple Break Two Hearts And Then Register

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 5

Runaway Couple Break Two Hearts And Then Register

i^t Boarding^housfet^ :;-:;!;;:Njiine.;Before Fledrig

found living at 442, Auburn Road, ' Hawthorn, Melbourne, where they were identified from, photographs, and the petition of Edward Stephen Gale was served upon them. . Among the gallery m the body of the court when the husband's petition came before. Mr. Justice Ostler m Dunediri last Saturday was Archdeacon White - head, an interested whose clerical, coat and .gaiters lent an ecclesiastical atmosphere to the proceedings. Lawyer Claude White appeared . m support of the petition and successfully guided Edward Stephen Gale through the rock-bound sea of matrimony to freedom from an unfaithful wifb. ' . The petitioner,' a youthful husband, safS he was a Customs clerk employed m Dunedin.; His marriage' to Elfrida Lucia Dundas Barclay took place at St. John's Church, Roslyri, on March 2, 1926, the ceremony being performed by Archdeacon Fitchett. . There were no children and the parties lived to-' gether until January, 1928. ( , "On the evening of Sunday,' January 22 last," continued the petitioner,. '.T Correct Deduction •'■'■■■ had a conversation with my wife when she told mie she had been receiving the attention of another man, and on being pressed further, she said it was the curate of the church she. was attends ing." , : , ; .She left home the following day, goring to her. mothers- home at 9, Garfleld Avenue. . ■■.-.[. "I interviewed. Hassall on the Tuesday morning, and he told me that the state of affairs as outlined by me Was correct. "He said that he' had seen my wife on the previous evening and he confirmed that their feelings were similar towards each other." "He said they proposed to go away together from .New Zealand. I said, 'There is no place you can take her to where you could not be found out,' but Hassall replied that there were plenty of, places. , # "On the following Saturday I 'took some of her personal belongings to her mother's house and. there I saw her with .Hassall. .». . "They came m about a quarter to seven and . said they, had been' to Fraser"s Creek." .'•'.'•••' Lawyer White: I believe • that is a park somewhere) near Dunedin? Gale: That is so. ■

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The petitioner went . on to say. that Hassall intimated that he proposed to take Mrs. Gale away from New Zealand and m all probability they .would go to Australia. !. ■.■ ',> To prove petitioner's earnest .desire that his wife should not leave him, and that he was prepared to forgive her and £ake her back, counsel put-in a copy of a letter written by. Gale to his wife on January 31. : It read as follows: "My Dear E!l---frida, — Although, you have refused, after my seeing you, to return home, and have openly declared your affection for another man, I am still very fond of you and do want you to give up your foolish ideas and come back home. "We have had many years of hap,ip me s s together, both before- • and after being marr ried, and you have' no cause to /leave me as you have done. I will 'forgive you and forget what has,' happened if you only come back, and continue our happy home life together aa before. "I am sure that: if you do not you will regret it and spoil both our lives." Tours with much love,, ■ ;■■■• . ' , . ■ . Stephen...

Despite these entreaties! Mrs. Gf&le refused tq. return. , t . . ; 1 "On February' 2,"« witness added;-^ 4 T saw liiy wife m the street and she told nje she 1 was going to Waimate to see her brother and -I saw her. away on the express.

"Five days later she rang up on the telephone stating that she had received the letter, that she was back, and that she had not gone to Waimate. .. .

"We later -met : by> accident 'lii.tfie street when she told me she was going to Australia. ; ;■:•:■::... '„^J:->^. '■'<• ; ,■ .?■.. "I asked ; her if ■ she -#as going to Sydheyj^ut l she . said she did. nottthink / so as she "had /an. aunt there. - She thought they , would, be r golpg : to, ,ss)&■ bourne. '''- ■,•'•';-' -V ''["<^r ■■ ; ;'-^- ".. •. "I urged r her not to take such a fqoU . ish step ,; ih ; a htirryr and ,'she- rdpifed ' that it woiild not- be before, the end of March."^ .>%j-'- : \. : - ■■' ; .^'v V:' ''I. TPetitioner g^.Ve a detailed description of. both his-wife and.JHassall.jand.identifled the :ph\otograp'h:s;/:attach-e'd J '*t6 th"c" affidavit ;ofs"eiryice m Melbpuriie :a.B . those of Mrs. Gale 'and- 1 - the minister. Sarah Lalla Holwprthy,. ,-widpw, of Painaerstph South, ; stated;: iMtj fatL.;i|t. p.m. r on February 14, of this year, a 'couple whom she identified from the photographs as Mrs. '*3ale i ;and Hassall, c;ai(l;e.d at her bpdd'd.lngihouse and if.; they could stay usslj the^nfxt m'prnlhg as they were c^fchiniK ■&& .flifst express en -\ route to Melbourne:" . / . v : \ Jhey gave the: names of : '* Mr. and-' Masters.". ."'-,. :-^-' K '■■■;.'„■ \ / ' • ..Counsel: Did they occUpy-tb^^sam© rj)O'm?-^Yes/ a .double room. ->-s fr> C oij^e^sHftw-v .H^nyT^ beds -..SrCi it 7— mie : t thereyand^lefj^he^rex^niprnin'^t .''"•CdunseiS-I Siave^^he^axi-driYeir. who took '.tfiem to^Slmißrs^oS^f ybur-lbnor wishes further" evidence. .' His honor: It fs'unnec'essary to prove . anything further, Mr. White. Decree nisi to be made absolute at the expiry of three ;. months vsrith costs on the/ lowest scaje. against the co-respondent.

Meet Mr. Masters $