PLOT SUCCEEDED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 239, 30 May 1932, Page 6

PLOT SUCCEEDED

FATHER'S ASTUTE PLAN TO FREE SON FROM MATRIMONY. MARRY AND FORGET. What may be regarded as the tragic sequel to a father's plot to keep his son free from matrimonial entanglements is shortly to be heard before a Paris court. The son, Don Pedro, was studying at Zurich a few years ago. His father, Don Santiago, who is described as having been one of the wealthiest men in Chile, learned that the youth intended to settle down in Switzerland with a Swiss girl of good family, Mlle. Mathilde. Don Santiago, however, was determined to make the boy the administrator of his estates and mines in Chile, and therefore did all he could to upset his plans. When all else had failed he came to the conclusion that the quickest way of getting rid of Mlle. Mathilde was to induce Don Pedro to marry her in Chile. This having been carried out, the young couple, delighted by Don Santiago's apparent change of attitude, agreed to Ais proposal that the son should spend some time in learning the mining business and that his wife should return to heT Swiss home to wait for him. The plan worked only too well. In the course of time Don Pedro began to forget Mathilde and 'eventually obtained a divorce. To-day his father is dead, he himself is living in Paris, and his former wife is also there, peniless and in search of work.