“SMALL TOWN GOSSIP”
‘LED TO DIVORCE' PETITION’ LONDON, July 20.—Mrs Helene Wheatley—who earlier in the day had faced accusations of adultery with a man it was subsequently proved, she had never even seen—said last- night that she believed “small town gossip” had led her husband into bringing tlie charges against her. In the Divorce Court yesterday Mr Justice Laugton dismissed her husband’s petition for divorce, suggested that the case was one for investigation by the Public Prosecutor and impounded the documents.
A petition for restitution of conjugal rights brought by Mrs Wheatley was granted with costs.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 83, 12 September 1938, Page 3
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96“SMALL TOWN GOSSIP” Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 83, 12 September 1938, Page 3
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