MRS ROBINSON CONDUCTS HER OWN CASE. A STRANGE STORY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 4

MRS ROBINSON CONDUCTS HER OWN CASE. A STRANGE STORY.

Loitdon", May 24. That versatile, vivacious, and — I fear with regard to the fair sex — vaiatile genius, Phil Robinson, has surprised all but a few old friends " in the know " by coming out on Monday last in the unexpected and somewhat unenviable role of respondent in a scandalous divorce suit. Few of us know that Phil was married, fewer still that his spouse contemplated severely aggressive proceedings. The matter was kept a profound secret ; in fact, so well did Master Phil play his cards that but for an enerpetic "liner" the case would probably never have got into the papers at all. Mr Indorwick repiesented the respondent, Robinson. Mrs Robiuson came in early ab the moming session, and sat during; tho day on a front bench, listening to thocvidoncointhe 20 different cases on the hst. In a majority of them were more girls asking tor release from brutal husbands, who had not only illtreated them and choked them, but pounded them with their iists, besides violating their marital vows. Desertion, cruelty, and unfaithfulness marked the proceedings of the day. In a few instances woe-begone-looking husbands (generally they were little chaps, with scant hair and thin faces) asked for separation and the custody of their children on the ground of immorality and drunkenness on the part of their wives.