SEQUEL TO A DIVORCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 62, 13 March 1903, Page 2

SEQUEL TO A DIVORCE.

PES PRESS A8»OOrATIOB. London, March 11. A remirkabta o>sihas ooeupied Sir Francis Jeune, in thi Divorce Court, for seven days. Cli'istim Gordon, a member of the London St-ck exch >ng <, divorced hia wife o ■ the ground of her adultery with his cousin 1-ord Gordon, the peti r iono'- being granted the custody of a child urm d Cecily. Tha wife took th» child abroad and marriei the co-respondent in the divorce cas\ She than applied to Sir Francis Jeane to allow her the ouitody of the child, alleging that its father was the co-respondon*, and not Christian Gordon. She and ber preient husband d posed that immoral relations had existed belwe»n them befjra her marriage with Ohriitian Gordon, and had couiinued throughout her married life wi'h Gordon's know* ledge and connivance. G rdon d-pised tint he did not suepecj his wife's guilt until shortly before he obtained a divorce, and declared himself 'o be the father of Oeoily. S r Francis Jeune held that the balance of probabilities was in favor of Gordon, and ordered Cecily ts b# surrender d 1.1 h'm. Keceived la, 10 45 p.m. London, March 12. While Jnstve Jeune was summing up, L dy Gordon left the Oiurt and disippeared with her child. Her husband scites he is no' awara of her hn' de«tinitiou, but exp cttd to find her at home. A CaUis telegram states she arrived there early yesterday, and proceeded to Paris.