LIFE TOO DULL

Taihape Daily Times, 6 March 1919, Page 5

LIFE TOO DULL

The story of a minister's wife who found manse life too dull, and her infatuation for a blind soldier, was unfolded in the Divorce Court, London, when Mr. Justice Horridge granted a decree nisi to the Rev. John Burchenall Longdon, a Wesleyan minister, now at Bridgend, South Wales, on the ground of his wife's misconduct with a man named Edmund John Turner, a blind soldier at St. Dun Stan's. The parties were married irf 1898, am: there were two children. In 1904. the petitioner said, he had to complain ,of the conduct of his wife with men, and they ultimately separated. In 1905 he stopped bis .wife's allowance as she visited the place where he officiated as minister.

He arranged for her relatives to support her. In 1906 he had her back at Stoke-on-Trent but she found the place too dull and did not remain. Then they went to London and she went out to the Bahamas and stayed there till the death of her mother. The next he beard of her was that she was visiting blind soldiers at St. Dunstan's where she made the acquaintance of the cor-respondertt. It was subsequently found that the respondent and cor-resepondent were living together at Golder's Green.