GREAT DIVORCE SUIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 413, 23 July 1928, Page 9

GREAT DIVORCE SUIT

WIFE’S PETITION FAILS BONN CASE IN LONDON LEGAL COSTS TOTAL £50,000' (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) LONDON, Saturday. The Court found Sir Max J. Bonn not guilty of misconduct as was alleged in his wife’s petition for divorce, which was dismissed. Lady Bonn has alleged repeated misconduct on the part of her husband in Paris and in the West End of London, but the Judge, in summing up, pointed out that the only evidence of misconduct came from paid watchers —two loose Parisian women. The case had lasted three weeks. If the husband’s counter-suit in connection with which the names of Sir Ronald Waterhouse, private secretary to the Prime Minister, and Mr. Arthur Marcus Hanbury are mentioned, should be equally prolonged the records under the modern divorce law will be broken. The legal costs amount to £50,000 and 14 barristers, including six King’s Counsel, have been engaged. Sir Max J. Bonn is a merchant banker of L on don. He was born in New York in 1877 and was married in 1920 to Hilda Beatrix, younger daughter of the late James Watkins. Sir Max is a partner in Bonn and Company, which in 1921 amalgamated with Helbert Wagg and Company, Ltd. He is also a director of the Bank of London and South America, Ltd., and deputy-chairman of United Glass Bottle Manufacturers, Ltd.