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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 24, 1938
If you had been the judge would you have said-
"DIVORCE GRANTED"?
A
in bed
witnesses together. He other saw her three nights a week, too, nightie. when she was in town.
MERICA'S Divorce Court and I were
Judges have given the nation a new game of questions and
answers."
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The lady in negligee was the beautiful Dorothy Doane Hatch,
and
a blue
Joseph Whittington, the Hatch "A few months after our mar- butler, told of ja party given. riage we had a row, and we made by Mrs. Hatch when hubby was up and finally I sat in his lap. He away from their summer home... had some guns in the house "that
and a "One day Mrs. Hatch he had brought back from the war.
guest, Miss Betty Blake, had two He asked me where they were..
male visitors. One was a tennis instructor.
"I got them and put them beside him on the couch. I got back in his lap, and the next thing I knew
-shot!" I was on the floor
In England the divorce laws are rigid and strictly enforced. In America they are elastic and their enforcément is sub- ject, frequently, to the whims and peculiarities of judges and juries.
Read this page of typical American cases and judge for yourself where justice is best,
Mrs. Hatch asked a separation and £25 a week alimony, alleging that her husband had "gone
"After having several drinks áround" with his first wife. Hus-
they went up-stairs to Mrs. Hatch's band pleaded for a divorce and
bedroom. I continued to serve underwear named a tennis instructor and Hatch testified the shooting took them drinks. Finally Miss Blake his wife's first husband, John place after Mrs. Hatch had threa- and one man went Millholland
tened suicide. He swore he hadn't The tennis instructor even handled the gun. He insisted with Mrs. Hatch. he hadn't been over-friendly with Wife No. 1.
as co-respondents.
Said Mrs. Hatch:
"He often received telephone calls from his first wife while he
The Judge heard Dorothy's to her room. denials. Then he rejected her plea
remained
for a separation and alimony, and granted the husband a divorce on "I brought more drinks, and the strength of what happened in finally found Mrs. Hatch in a blue the summer home. That brings us down to Hatch's nightgown and the visitor in his
DIDNT DO ANYTHING SPECIAL YESTERD
WENT TO BED EARLY
SEEMED TO SLEEP ALRIGHT.
SURELY 3 HOURS IS ENOUGH?
The Judge said:
"While the evidence offered by the husband only, went to the ex- tent of showing inclination and opportunity, adultery is the reason- able deduction."
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Now for No. 2 and the pyjama- clad girl.
Mrs. Cobina Wright, society matron, wanted a divorce from her wealthy husband, William.
Cobina said she and. some friends had raided her husband's apartment at midnight and found him in the company of Myrtle Gar- diner, an artist's model.
was
Myrtle, said Mrs. Wright, dressed in pyjamas. Wright was wearing a business suit.
The Judge seemed impressed by the fact that Wright was fully clothed.
Mrs. Wright's counsel protested that Myrtle had on nothing but pyjamas. The Judge snapped:
"People wear pyjamas on the beach, in the street, everywhere. They might have been beach pyjamas."
He refused Mrs. divorce.
Wright..the
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this morning?
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Answers No. S and No, 4 came in the divorce suit of Edward C. Kuehn against Mrs. Verna Kuehn.
He testified:
"I was playing the piano when all of a sudden there was a com- motion outside. I went out, and there was Mrs. Kuehn and a man in the water with no clothes on. I took off my clothes, all but my underwear, and waded in and call- ed to her to come out. She refus- ed."
The Judge interrupted: "What's all this - what does it mean? A weman. and a man go bathing at night in the nude? I can't see anything wrong in that. They do it all the time in Japan." Kuehn, undaunted, returned to the attack with:
"Mrs. Kuehn another man. When they came back two hours later there were lipstick marks all over his white suit
left a party wonde
The Judge again interrupted: "What's that got to do with it?” While he brushed aside. the bathing-lipstick testimony, the Kuehn a divorce on Judge did g other and more specific evidence. But he emphasised his decision was based on that evidence, and not on the other points.