A DISCARDED WIFE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8917, 10 September 1907, Page 1

A DISCARDED WIFE.

How a doctor got rid of Jiis wife by sending tier to East Africa so that bo might dally with another woman was told in the Scottish Divorce Court, when Lord Mackenzie heard proof in an action brought by Mary Thomson 'Wylie or Wallace, Florence Villa, Overdalo Road, South Ealing, Loudon, against her husband, Dr. David Wallace, Lochgoilhed, Argyllshire.

Pursuer said she was married in 1893, and three children were born. At the time of the marriage the defender was in practice near Loudon. He sold that practice and being in ill-health he and witness went to Mombasa, in British East Africa, for a time. When they returned to England defender took up a practice at Beckenham, Loudon.

In June, 1899, witness engaged a lady-help, named Gertrude Fox. Up to that time the relations of witness and her husband had been quite happy and cordial, but atfcr Miss Fox’s appearance the defender became rough in his manner. About the end of 1889 defender announced to her that ho had sold his practice, and that she was to leave immediately for Mombassa with the children, the arrangement being that he was to follow in a mouth.

At Mombasa she got a letter from the defender, in which ho said “As to coming out in January, I simply cannot do it. As a matter of fact, I never intended to come at all; I only wanted to got away from you. Row you must work and paint, but I never iwant to live with you again. If you want to come homo to this country I will pay your faro on condition that you sign a deed of separation before you come. If you want to get rid of the children I have someone who will gladly take care of them. ’ ’

Witness said she was so surprised at the receipt of the letter that she thought something had gone wrong witii her husband’s brain. She did not know at the time that Miss Fox had anything to do with :tJ>e business, but she learned on her return from Mombasa that her husband had gone to Lochgoilhead along with that lady. Witness went to Lochgoilhead, saw her husband on the shore, and followed him to the house. Fox stood, beside him. Witness said she wanted to speak to her husband alone, and he said, “You cannot come in here.” Fox prevented witness going into the house, and pushed the defender behind the inside door. Witness then said, “You wicked adulteress You have stolen my husband, and now I know it. ’ ’ Even after that witness offered to be friends with her husband for the children’s sake on consideration that he gave up Miss Fox, but he would not do so.

Lord Mackenzie granted a divorce,