EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2723, 12 October 1887, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE.

A ~ divorce case, disclosing ordinary, persistence in wrong doinj^ ; has just been heard in Sydney. It was that of John Guthrio Gray v. Ellen Maria Gray, being a husband's peti- • tion on the ground of the wife's : adultery with three co-respondents. The petitioner in 1875 became acquainted with tho respondent, who was then . a barmaid, eighteen years .of age. Ho" proposed and was accepted, and,i|ving put her to school for a tinio, her at Albury iu the Jajiuary'W the • following-year. After living at St. Kilda, they wtint to a station which he had purchased called Goombargaut, near Corowai. Three children were bora, and in,1878 Mrs Gray confessed that aho had been supplied -with champagueby James Neal,, the bookkeeper on the station, and"' that ho had ;heu taken advantage d .her intoxicated condition. '-For the sake of the children tho petitioner took , uo further steps than to send-Neal away, Mrs Gray afterwarda liiid Neal takenbiick,.oh the'plea that,, be might ; , " talk" in the township. ■; Impr;^' -; relations weft resumed, audi Wto :"' being Bent toa inore 'distant {statin, .was killed a: fall' -from; a ■ horse. Another book'keeper, named Horace John Jerivey.took his place, and a number of men oh the station thrWtahed to lynch Jeuvey; having found him' with Mrs Gray sitting, on his knee; during ■ ' Gray's absence from lipiue. ficxtday Gray and Jenvey 'fought'to the finish.' Tho petitioner next took ■ a his wifa at Brighton' her with.servant 3 and every co'miort. Finding Jpnvey was again-visiting her, hei stopped her credit until she should show.signs of reforming, 'Mrs Gruy and Jenvey then left for- Sydney. The petitioner,' at her request, met her in Melbourne just ■; before Ohristruaa, 1881, and took her back to live with him. After two years sho began to drink again, and complained of the climato being too hot. Thereupon he took hor to several places for her health, and at length to Geelong, where she became intimate with a man tot d John Smith, whocleaned thebdo|Tin the house where they stayed. Subsequently the petitioner found his wife and a visitor named Thomas Ditchfield in a bedroom together, andsuhsequently instituted divorce proceedings against the respondent, who now resides with her relations at St Kilda. Thejiidgo granted a rule nisi for a divorsajfcwith costs agamst both Jenvey. a'nfllito hfield, who were made" co-respondents ia the case;