UNUSUAL DIVORCE SUIT.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 June 1919, Page 6

UNUSUAL DIVORCE SUIT.

‘nnmnss AND “WOUND srnrrn.” K In the Supreme Court at New York, Mrs Florence Brainard G1'lI11\\’:OOd brought a. suit for an annulment of ller marriage to William F. G. Brainard, whom she loved and married because of a wound she supposed he had received in the British Army. -' . The petition discloses an aiiiaziiig Florence Brainarclt, a rich debutante, came from Washington in July, 1916, ‘and met Grimwood at many fashionable homes. He represented himself tangle of emo’ti-ons. It sets forth that to be a‘ surgeon recovering from wounds, and was eutertvainod as a war hero. He wore wound stripes and uni~ , form. A \\'l‘:l.1'l\\'lll(l Courtship followed, and, overcome by the glamour of his rt-puted heroism, the girl consented to a secret marriage. Her parents floregave her, and themselves yielded to the fascination of the surgeon’s manners. Her husband devoted himself to raising funds for war relief organisations. She was dumfounded when he was arrested in .Ta1111a1'§:, 1917, for obtaining money by false pretences. He was sentenced to three years’ impriszenment, she states, and, released on probation, returned to Engh-and. The name Grimwood, she says, was an assumed one, her husband being really called Archer. She quotes a newspaper report that Archer was tried in London on a forgery chsarge, and acquitted, also from a letter she received from Alice Lenard, \Es.jsex, England, who, erroneously thinking herself a widow, married Archer in October, 1900, and had two children by him. Archer left‘ her in 1905, when her husband relappeared. ' After serving as an orderly in an .~'\merican hospital, it is alleged that Archer came to America. with a false passport in the name of Grimwood, and embarked on a career the course of which led the Washington heiress to, the altar. ‘