CASE WITHDRAWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 7

CASE WITHDRAWN

THE HAUGWITZ=REVENTLOW PROCEEDINGS SAFETY OF THE COUNTESS NOT THREATENED. POSITION CHANGED BY FRANK DISCUSSION. By Telegraph-—Press Association. Copyright. LONDON, July 13. There was a dramatic conclusion today to the court case in which Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow (formerly Miss Barbara Hutton) had initiated proceedings to obtain a surety from her husband that he would not execute violence against her. Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., counsel for Countess Reventlow, asked and obtained permission to withdraw the case. He declared that the position had changed as a result of frank discussions which he had had. He appreciated, he said, that there was all the difference in the world between words uttered in the stress of emotion and words uttered after due consideration. He added that he would personally take the responsibility of advising the countess that the count did not intend to threaten her safety and that he wgs prepared to undertake never to approach Wingfield House, the countess’s London residence, or endeavour to communicate with her, directly or indirectly. The magistrate agreed to the withdrawal of the case and the count was discharged. Crowds of well-dressed women waited outside the court from daybreak, but none was admitted.

A message received on June 23 stated that Scotland Yard had posted guards at the Regent's Park house of Count and Countess Haugwitz-Revent-low as the result of threats to kidnap their two-year-old son. On the following day a message reported an interview the count was said) to have given to the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” in which he was quoted as saying, “I am a person the police will want to interview if I land in England,” and disclosed a difference of opinion between himself and his wife over the education of their boy. It was also stated that a warrant for his arrest had been issued.

Preliminary proceedings for 1 separation between the parents were begun and the boy was made a ward in Chancery according to a message on June 30.

The countess decided last year to adopt her husband’s nationality and become a Dane. She was first married to Prince Alexis Mdivani, but divorced him and married Count HaugwitzReventlow soon afterwards.