EARLY MORNING VISIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 11

EARLY MORNING VISIT

HUSBAND SURPRISES WIFE DECREE NISI GRANTED Having smashed the glass of the front door, and rushed into the house in the early hours of a Sunday morning, Henry Joseph R. Burton told Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, this morning how he gained first-hand evidence of the infidelity of his wife. Lillian Burton. Burton (Mr. Singer > sought dissolution of his marriage on grounds of his wife's alleged adultery with Charles Aldridge, for whom Mr. E. H. Burton appeared. The counter allegations by the wife were withdrawn by leave of the court. Married iu September. ISO 3. petitioner said that during the last year or two there had been considerable unhappiness because of his wife's attachment for Aldridge, who was a comparative youth. He separated from his wife and had her watched by private inquiry agents. Accompanied by these men. he kept watch on the house, in which his wife and Aldridge were living, on the night of March 30. At 1.15 o’clock on Sunday morning witness broke the glass of the front door and he and his companions rushed into the bedroom. Aldridge had just jumped out of the bed in which Mrs. Burton was sleeping. His Honour: Did you send your wife to stay in the house with Aldridge?— Ho: she was living there. Did she go there of her own accord? —Yes; the children were there with her.

Did you tell your wife to go and live with Aldridge?—No. Burton said that Aldridge had been a boarder in his home, and although witness wanted to get the co-respond-ent out, the wife would not let the man go. His Honour: Do you deny that you urged your wife to be familiar with the man?—Yes.

Do you deny that you offered her money to consort with Aldridge?— Yes.

Burton said that he had been suspicious for a long time and he had been trying to obtain evidence for a long time. After corroborative evidence had been given by John Goddard and John Sarte, private inquiry agents, a decree nisi was granted. OTHER DECREES GRANTED MUTUAL SEPARATION The petition of Lewis Arthur Clarke (Mr. Dickson) for the severing of his matrimonial bouds with Constance Carden Clarke (Mr. McLlver) was based on mutual separation. The evidence of the petitioner, who is now in East Africa, showed that the separation agreement had been entered into in 191 S. This testimony was supported by the respondent, who said that she was married in 1906 and lived with her husband on a farm outside Dargaville until 1918, when they separated. Six months ago, when in New Zealand, petitioner had called for a few minutes to see the youngest child. After hearing corroborative evidence his Honour granted a decree nisi. On the existence of a separation order by the court. Lena Olney (Mr: Sullivan) petitioned for dissolution of her marriage with Alfred Henry Olney. The parties were married in 1599 and lived together until October, 1922, when a separation order was made by the magistrate. There were three children of the union. A decree nisi was granted, custody of the children being granted to petitioner. UNFAITHFUL WIFE Unfaithfulness on the part of his wife, Hilda Mabel Watson, was the reason given by Leslie Gilbert Watson (Mr. Taylor) for their separation. Watson based his petition for divorce on grounds of separation. The parties were married in March 1925 and separated in August the same year. A decree nisi was granted. ORDER DEFIED A decree nisi was granted to Harold John Crimmins (Mr. Singer) on his petition for divorce from Joan Crimmins, on grounds of failure to comply with an order for restitution of con jugal rights.