LAWYER AND FAIR DIVORCEE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 6

LAWYER AND FAIR DIVORCEE

When Mrs Lela Asbury applied to

Clwrles Lyons, a lawyer of Lexington, Mo., to aid her in securing a divorce from her husband lie little thought

that he would virtually pave the way for his own marriage—and to Mrs .Asbury, at that! Just to show how far from Mr Lyons' thoughts was the probability that his fair client would ever become his wife, it is pointed out that the lawyer tried his utmost to reconcile Mr and Mrs Asbury. He counselled them against divorce, and even fwcured her agreement to give Asbury another trial. She returned homo as sho had promised, and for two years he heard no more from his client.

Naturally he supposed the "case" was settled, and that as "arbitrator of affections" lie was entitled to" some congratulations'. That he was mistaken is now evident. But here is the story in its chrono-

logical order: Mrs Asbury. who is tho daughter of Dr Grimes, formerly a practitioner in East St Louis, began her matrimonial carer most romantically. Seventeen years ago—she is now 34 —she eloped with tho 18-year-old son of a prominent banker of Higginyville, Mo. Life did not prove to be. the idyll that they supposed, and tho young couple disagreed, as young couples arc prone to do. In their case the bonds of matrimony grew more galling as the years passed by, and at last, thinking she epidd endure it no longer, Mrs- Asbury made her appeal to MiLyons and, as has been recounted, accepted his advice to give her husband another trial.

' Tho two years brought no reconciliation complete enough for endurance of the marriage state with her husband, and so Mrs Asbury again ' made the trip to Lexington and for the second time appealed to Lyons to f rid her of her husband whom she no longer loved nor could jeudur.e.

I This time all attempts to dissuade : her proved fruitless, and Lyons obtained 'the coveted decree for his client.

I Xow it must be remembered that several conferences usually are neess- ' ary between a lawyer and his client, : and in this ca.se. it mufb be confessed j these conferences proved no hardship Ito either. On the other hand they were so agreeable that Lyons kept in ) communication with Mrs Asbury after she had returned to the residence of 1 her-mother in St Louis, a free woman. The se-quel is an early marriage.