THEATRICAL DIVORCE CASE.
The following concerning a well known theatrical agent appears in a Sydneys paper: —A brief but painful case was brought before Mr Justice Windeyer in bis divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction yesterday morning. It was that in which Mrs Maria Thatcher, a young, ladylike, and sorrowing suitor, applied through Mr Want for a rule nisi for tiro dissolution of her marriage in 1872 with Air Richmond Thatcher a well known theatrical agent, on the grounds of cruelty, adultery, and desertion. Strong evidence of each of these charges having been adduced, his Honor had no hesitation in granting the role, which will probably 7 be made absolute, unless the respondent can show good cause against it, in six mouths from date. It was sworn that Mr Thatcher had more than once struck his wife, that ho had lived with another woman as man and wife, leaving His wife no means of support when starting for England with the woman referred to.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2335, 10 September 1880, Page 3
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162THEATRICAL DIVORCE CASE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2335, 10 September 1880, Page 3
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