DIVORCE CASE AT SEVENTEEN.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1919, Page 5

DIVORCE CASE AT SEVENTEEN.

Mrs. Virginia B. Mitchell, the 17 year-old daugliter of the postmistress at Westhampton Beach, although still a student in the High School of that town, learned that she will have to defend ’a._sui-t. for divorce. Her husband, William M. Mitchell, was recently discharged from the army as a captain, has begun the action in Jeffersonville , Indiana. (says a New York cable to the Paris Daily Mail’). Captain Mitchell alleges that when he returned from overseas and was ill in. hospital his wife refused to visit him, and sent. word that she regretted that" she had married him. _ Captain Mitchell and Miss Williams, then only 16, were niarriedthe day after he obtained an Indiana divorce from Miss Ada F. Mitchell, with whom. he had lived for 14 years, and to Whom he agreed to pay £lO a m~orlt.h.”‘ He is 37 years old. He advertised last month in a. local newspaper that he would not‘ be responsible, for his second wife.