A BLAZE OF DIAMONDS.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 January 1919, Page 5

A BLAZE OF DIAMONDS.

WIFE AS ADVEETISEMBNT, A curious story of a wife who was alleged to walk about as an advertisement for her husband's jewellery was told in the Bow County Court, when Mrs. Morris was the defendant in a judgment (summons 1 issued by her sister, Mrs. Hughes, for, £l4 15s Id After Mrs. Morris got married she brought an action against her sister for jewellery and other things, and lost. The amount now asked for was the costs. Mrs. Hughes said her sister married. a very wealthy jeweller, and the jewellery she was then wearing was worth £IOO. She came up to see her on one occasion "a blaze of diamonds." Counsel: You could not say if it was lent to her so that she might advertise her husband's jewellery —and a very good advertisement, too? The defendant said that when her husband wanted to her out he lent her jewellery out of stock; she had nothing of her own. Counsel: Now as to this beautiful and valuable jewellery you are wearing—what is the value of it? Defendant: This "diamond" pendant I am wearing is worth ss; it is out of stock. (;Loud laughter.) Judge Graham said 'he could not commit a married woman, and there was no evidenee of means, so he should dismiss the summons.