BEGGED FOR HER FREEDOM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3559, 23 August 1920, Page 6

BEGGED FOR HER FREEDOM.

COLONEL'S WIPE "'HO LOVED ANOTHER. The possessor of-a private income of £SOO a year, wife of a distinguished colonel in the army, and with, a cosy flat in Biekcuhall Mansions, Baker Street, London, Mrs. Elsa Becvor, who before her marriage in 1009 to Lieut* Colonel Miles Becvor, D. 5.0., was a Miss Waring, was apparently a wOmilll to be enviedBut her affection for her husband bad waned; she had fallen in lo\e with a younger man, a Mr. Stanley Mayhew, and in a letter which she wrote from Killarney she appealed to her husband to set her free, and so end the*immoral life she was leading. “THIS IMMORAL LIFE.”

There was no address on the letter, which was dated August 19, 1919, and ran; “Dear Miles. —I understand that you leave for India very shortly. I am writing once again to ask you to give me my freedom before you go. . . .Nothing will persuade me to go back to you, therefore an interview would only be painful- I do not wish to correspond with you either; that, too, would only Tie very painful, and quite" useless. I have been living with someone else for the last ten months, and I do beg of. you not to force me to continue to, live this immoral life. I hope you will like living in India once again. I am glad you are going. ( I think and trust it will help you to forget how badly I have treated yeg B , Xdo most earnestly hope you will happiness, and maybe some day someone will deserve all your love and jgj t speet more than I have done. - e Beevor instructed his solicitors to

. commence proceedings- bo DISCOVERY ON LEAVE. His petition for divorce came b&for£ c Mr. Justice Hill, when Stanley MftS,hew was cited as co-respondent, suit being undefended. 'i In evidence given on eomniissipn'; Colonel Beevor, who is now on serviceat Rawal Pindi, India, said ho wjas married at St, John’s, Hampstead, on January G, 1909. There had been no children. During the war he w r as stationed in France, and he and his wife carried on an affectionate correspond deuce. Early last June, in consequence ;of a communication made to him, came to England on special leave, and then learned that his wife and Mro; Mayhew had disappeared from his residence in London, and had stayed at the Great. Southern Hotel, Killarncy. Mr. Justice Hill pronounced a decree nisi with costs against the respondent and co-respondent.