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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1938.
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HE WATCHED
Private Detective As Co-Respondent
A diamond necklace, lost for 19 A husbånd who cited as years, has been found in a peram-spondent a private detective whom bulator in a sred in Berlin. The he had employed to watch his wife necklace belongs to the Duchess of
had his petition dismissed in the Coburg, wife of Leopold Carl
Divorce Court, states the
e "Daily Eduard, Duke of Coburg and Grand-
Herald.” son of Queen Victoria.
Mr. Thomas Ridd, a shipping All the jewels belonging to the Duke and Duchess were buried durclerk, of Burwell-avenue, Greenford, ing the revolution of 1918. When Middlesex, asked for a divorce from the revolution was over they were Mrs. Marie Philomene Irma Ridd, unearthed but the necklace was a Belgian subject by birth, on the missing. Now it has been found ground of her misconduct with Mr. by a man in the shed near the form- Richard Lindsay Rogers. er hiding-place.
Mrs. Ridd denied misconduct,
The man did not report his dis-and- also pleaded "conduct conduc- covery to the police but told his ing" by her husband, and conni- two brothers. The three men went vance, alleging that he had left her to a jeweller and asked him to value without adequate means of support, the diamonds. They said they were and had conspired with Rogers that Prince."
he should seduce her.
The jeweller, however, became quspicious and informed the police. The three brothers have now been
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It has not yet been discovered how the jewels came to be in the perambulator.
GIRL OF SEVENTEEN PARACHUTIST
First In Australia To Take The Jump
Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Buckuil said:
to
In 1935 police raided Mrs. Ridd's house in Zeebrugge, at the instiga- tion of Mr. Bidd, who tried procure evidence of ... misconduct. Mrs. Ridd then issued a writin the King's Bench Division for £20 arrears under a deed of separation.
The husband raised the defence that he was not liable because his wife was not living a chaste life. Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord held that there was no evidence of miscon- duct and gave judgment for the wife for £20 and 120 costs.
Mr. Ridd met. the co-respondent Rogers at the office of solicitors who had acted for him, and it was agre- led that Rogers should watch Mrs.
Ridd.
Jean Burns, 17-year-old Mel- bourne girl, is the first woman to
Rogers went to Zeebrugge and make a parachute jump in Austra- lia. She descended from a height took a room opposite Mrs. Ridd's of 3,200 feet at the Essendon Aero-flat. For a time Rogers reported drome, near Melbourne states the to the husband, and later returned "Evening News."
to England.
Miss Burns, who is also one of Rogers told Ridd that his evid- the youngest pilots in the country, ence was not good against 、 Mrs. made a slow descent to a paddock Ridd.........
near the aerodrome, and she was Two days later Rogers went back followed by the plane which landed to Zeebrugge, thrust himself upon near her.
Mrs. Ridd and made violent love to Miss Burns suffered slight abra-her. According to Mrs. Ridd it sions to her face by being dragged was a passionate courtship and she alone the ground by the parachute.¡became violently in love with Ro-
"It was great," she said. "The gers.
first plunge was breath-taking, but Rogers spoke to her about mar-
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was able to watch my progress and evidence whereby she could divorce wonder where I was going to land. her husband. The only time I felt uneasy was when I saw a pool of water thought I was going into it.”
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This came to rather an abrupt conclusion at the end of September, 1986, as Rogera got into some dif- ficulty with the Belgian police, who interrogated him on a charge that he had taken a Belgian girl to Lon- don for immoral purposes.
No charge was preferred against him, and Mrs. Ridd gave evidence on his behalf.
The first of the usual Wednesday Continuing. Mr. Justice Buck- meetings of the Cabinet since Par-ni said Rogers and Mra. Ridd liament adjourned " for Christmas came to London. will be held next week. Wireless.
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They went to an hotel where they occupied a room containing two beds. When Mrs. Ridd questioned the wisdom of this, Rogers said: “My dear girl, I am doing this to teat you.
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"I am satisfied," said the judge, "that Mrs. Ridd committed miscon duct with Rogers, but I think there is every excuse for her.
"She was separated from her husband, who persisted in charging her with misconduct. I think she was tricked by Rogers after she was madly in love with him.
“In my judgment Mr. Ridd has connived at the misconduct of his
The petition was dismissed, with costs. in favour of Mrs. Ridd.