HE MET HER IN NEW ZEALAND

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 2

HE MET HER IN NEW ZEALAND

Surprise In Store

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"You Despicable Cad, " Cried Wife, Who Found Husband With Other Woman SECRET ROMANCEENDED IN DIVORCE

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Sydney Representative). A very soberly, but smartly dressed woman, of an ultra refined type, Mrs. Blenora Tandy (nee Seppelt) stepped into the witness-box at Mr. Justice Halse Rogers', Divorce Court m Sydney, and asked the judge to give her her freedom. She alleged that her husband, Henry Hugh Tandy* merchant, of Sydney and Adelaide, formerly of Wellington (N.Z.), living at Wilga- Street, Bondi, had committed impropriety with Miss Rose Wilson, a New Zealander, at St. Albans Plats, Bondi, between March 1 and April 3, 1929. Her story was accepted by the Judge. : o ■ — '■ o ■ — ■

THE woman m the. case, who is. a New Zealander, was served with the copy of the petition and citation papers at the office of the solicitors m Castlereagh Street. She sighed a receipt for them. But she did not put m an appearance. Neither did Tandy. Mrs. Tandy, who was somewhat nervous, arid spoke ' almost m a whisper, said. she lived ln a house owned by her husband at Wilga Street, Bondi. -Tandy was a native of Wellington (N.Z.), and she was born m GeYnock, South Australia," where she met Tandy, and married Kirn. She was a Miss Seppelt before marriage, and was, 18 ' when she wedded Tandy at the Chapel of the Collegiate School of St. Peter's, Norwood, according .to : Church of England rites, "on April Si, 1909. About six years ago Tandy came to Sydney, and he had since then made this city his home. Mr. Louat (who appeared for the wife): When did you first become suspicious about your husband? Mrs. Tandy: Well, I saw him m a motor-oar m the city with a woman who had no right to be there. I saw tho woman quite plainly. When be came home I .told him that I had seen him and the woman together. How did he treat the 'protest?— He was facetious about the matten I— — : r-i

Something happened on March 12? — I had arranged to attend a lecture one evening. But I got a 'phone message to say it Was postponed. I had told my husband about the lecture, and he knew that I was going. When* l told him that it was postponed, and that I was not going out, he seemed very ! much perturbed. Then he said he was ' taking a run around to see someone at , the Council Chambers. I asked him to * drop me at a friend's place and said he ' could call for me on the way back. u U'_:lhad a taxi waiting, and 'l followed his" Car. I watched it pull Up opposite ' St. Albans Flats, Bondi. He went m- * side. Then I went back tb my friend's place, and later on my husband called for me and picked me up," she said. Counsel; Did you ask him anything? Mrs. Tandy: I asked my ' husband if he had seen the man at the Council Chambers and how he got on. He roplied that the man was not there. And the next day?— Next mopfl- , ' ing he went off about 10.30 a.m. to j the city. I stepped around to St. , Albans Flats a .littlo later on, and , I saw his car parked opposite the \ flats. It was the same next day-— > < the car was there when he was ) supposed to have gone to the city. And on March ' 15, and on many other days after that. , Did you see anyone after that? — <

Yes, I next saw Mr. Henry- Dykes, a private inquiry -agent, and he watched hiy husband and the ■''■ flats for some days. * Anything happen on April 3?— -Yfes, I got 'a message from Mr. Dykes about 11.15 to come around to St.. Albans Flats.' I did so. It was raining heavily. I met a Mr. Fred. Williams with Mr. Dykes. , I had a talk with both of them, and then we entered the flats. We knocked at a door and after a while we were admitted. I saw a woman m a room' In her kimono. It was the Same woman I had seen m the car with my husband. My: husband was m the Woman's flat, and he was sitting-.do'wn. Counsel : Did you do anything? v Mi*s. Tandy: I walked across to my husband and said to him: "You cad!

WHEN Mr. R. E. Fawcett applied to Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., for a separation order on -behalf of Letitia» Anne 'Elmsley from her husband, Peter Alexander Elmsley, whose trial was reported recently, he put forward the reason as < persistent cruelty. Objection to this ground was taken by Mr. Noble, the man's counsel, who suggested that the order should be "made by .consent, or on, account of intention to fail to maintain, and to this latter course Mr. Fawcett agreed. It was explained by counsel that neither a ' maintenance hor a guardianship order was asked for and 'Mr. Cutten granted the separation order. iiiiniiiiiiniiiiiinnimimiiiiniintitiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiilmiiiiniiiitiliitiinniiiii So this is what ybU are, doing when you are away froni me!" And then I went to the woman and said: "You are a nice woman to be entertaining my husband m your kimono m your flat." Mrs. Tandy paid she asked her husband what rent he was paying' for the woman's flat. But he denied that tie was paying the rent. She also admitted that 6he called Tandy a despicable creature. Later Tandy was very anxious to settle the trouble by bringing about a separation, but she would not agree to it. Dykes asked tlie girl m the kimono t6 v give hiih her t bUt at first she refused, and then admitted that it was Rose Wilson. Later the whole party Went along to Wilga Street, and Tandy asked his wife to continue to reside m his cottage there. She agreed, and has continued to live there ever since, but he has not been back to the home since the incident referred to.. 1 "On May 25 ;I, saw my hUsbahd again," said, the wife. "His car was outside . St. Albans ' Flats. I said to '

him: 'So you are visiting her again.' He said: 1 am. I have been very lonely, and I have been visiting her.' I have not seen him since." Harry J. Dykes, private inquiry agent, stated that he was engaged by Mrs. Tandy to watch St.. Albans Flats, Bondi. He saw Tandy drive his car to the flats, enter the building, glance m the letter-rack, and remain inside for some time. Next day ho called at the flats ahd after a little while he came out with a girl whom he took for a drive m his car. Dykes said that he enrried out his observations until April 3, when he determined to call m Mrs. Tandy. On that date Dykes said he watched the girl's flat froni near the hotel, and from where he stood he could see her, arrayed m a filmy slip, as she washed Up at the kitchen sink. Later on he Saw Tandy arrive m his runabout, which he parked opposite the St.- Albans Flats. He sent for Mrs. T.andy when her husband entered the/flats and prepared to make himself comfortable for the day, when his wife thought he was toiling industriously m the- city. ' Dykes went on to relate that he and his little party made their Way inside the St. Albans without, any difficulty, and m response to a knock, they

secured admission to Miss Rose Wilson's apiirtments. Miss Wilson was negligently arrayed m a flowered kimono, and she was m company with Henry Hugh Tandy. He didn't smil6 very long, according to Dykes, for Mrs. Tandy stepped across to her husband, and said: "You despicable cad! Is this Wh&t you are doing when you are away from me?' then Mrs. Tandy addressed the other woman. "And yoU! You are a nice woman to be' erttertalningr my husband m your room m a kimono!" "Tandy," said Dykes, "how long havfe you known this girl?" Tandy almost sobbfed! "Oh, my God; for yearsl 1 met her m New Zealand.' "Did you bring her oVer here?" "Yes,'} ho admitted. "She had some bad luck. BhV"l6at her J* mother and father, and she hud ho one left m Now Zealand. We wet'ft thrown together, and i I brought her here." That Closed the evidence, and Mr. Justice Halse Ro&ers accepted the story. He granted the wife her ae'efee nisi, and ordered the husband to pay the costs.