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"OUTSIDE ROMANCE SUCH came to her room at the hotel and said, "Oh, A MARRIAGE COULD HARDLY my child, I want to kiss you good night."
They occupied separate rooms. After taking BE CONCEIVED."
hold of a riding whip and saying, "I will boat you
until you are dead, he went away. DIVORCE'S COURT PRESIDENT'S She did not see him the next day. Witness
COMMENT.
declared that he never bail intercourse with her. In 1917, as he was so bad to her, aha wrote, asking petitioner, her husband, to corne
back to her, but he would not. In
cross-examination, she said she did not sugest that her husband consented to the German marriage. She had doubts
being
good, and about the Dutch decree
WIFE COERCED INTO SECOND'
** MARRIAGE.”
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when she went through the German she did not think she was free to
marriage
the
A remarkable caso was heard in the Divorce Court, London, before the President (Sir Henry Duke) last month: The petitioner was Engineer Commander Georgs wife Marie Aleida Campbell (whose maidon Dutch decree "looked, into" but the war Douglas Campbell, RN, and he accused his
She and petitioner bad agreed to have wife, mame was Schutt) of bigamous marriage with Haus Treusch von Battlar came on
of doing had not a chance Brenna hurt, Baron Tree to Briar so. She admitted writing in a letter that the Reserve of Officers, who died on Nov. 23nd, Holland was illegal, but she said she meant had told the German officer her divorce in and of misconduct with him. She' admitted the bigamous, marriage, bus denied it was illegal only in England. She was misconduct.
anxious to get her husband to ce back to her, but he would not try to gut the decres set aside. The German othcer was always drank except for a time after he left an inebriates' home..
Petitioner's case was to the effect that on Aug. 28th, 1909, at The Hague, he married respondent, the daughter of a colonel on the General Stail of the Netherland's Indian Army. She was born in the Dutch East They afterwards lived at Wootton- Indies
There was Gloucestershire. under Edge, no issue. In April, 1923, when he was serv- ing on one of his Majesty's ships, she ob tained a divorce in Holland, the suit being
lefended.
Petitioner, who was not in Holland, said the charge of misconduct made against him was untru Early in 1814 he and respondent stayed together in a
London hotel, and then she went to Germany. On Oct. 26th, 1015, at Charlottenburg, she
with him until August, 1917. She petitions for a divorca from him and obtained a decree on Nov. 23rd, 1918, the day after he died. Sub- sequently, sngineer Commander Camp- bell declined to apply for setting xaide the Holland decree, respondent made applica
on Feb. 12th, 1920, the decree of
Holland was annulled."
LUEGE AND ANTWERP SKETCHES. Asked why she went to Germany, she said she thought she might be of use, and might get information.
Mr. Backmill: Did you go for that pur posel-Yes.
Under what passport?-A Dutch passport." Describing yourself single or married ?— Single. I went to Cassel and there made the acquaintance of the German. He was in the hotel for six weeks' severe detention for
marriage.
Brandenfels, and ed. Von Buttlar. drink. My parents know of the proposed i
The President, in reply to the counsel, Pmarked that it was a most grave situs tion for a pretended neutral in Germany to be in.
Respondent paid she weat through religious ceremony of marriage with the German officer on April 16th, 1916, because he gave her his word he would go to an
dent's, case was that the German inebriates' home, and she hoped to get rid
officer accused her of being an Tinglish spy the ceremony in church. He went to the of him for six months. He was drunk at
and threatened to have her shot unless the married him.
Mr. T. Buck nill and Mr. F. L. C. Hodson (instructed by Messes. Wrensted, Hind, and Roberts) appeared for petitioner; and Mr. O. Willis (instructed by Mesars. Smith,
for Dods, and Bockett) was
W.
respondent.
in reply to the President, stated that he was a consenting party to the wifes petition of April, 1913.
The President: What does that meant
That I ack Casoly.
Truly of
the charge.
Petitioner said he first heard of that petition in March, 1913, by a letter in which his wife asked him to let her divorce him,
home, but would not stay there.
Mr. Bucknill: Had affection for him? I don't understand the question, because it is obvious that I loathed him.
Counsel naked why she paid a visit to Holland and returned to him
herespondent explied that he hold papers of in Holland he would publish them and father, who was about to compromise her
**I had She added becoine a general...
and a photo sketches of Liege and Ator-car with Lord! graph of my father in went back to Ger Kitchener.
many she was certain her husband did not love her, and did not want her, but she said
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She wrote, "As things cannot go misconducted herself. When she wrote, "!
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have got to have some man in the end," she was joking with her husband.
Mr. Bucknili: When did you make up your mind that the position was hopeless! Before I shot myself on July 14th, 1921
me.
any longer as they are." He replied by agreeing to the suggestion. The petition was not served on him; he received only the papers giving the result. He had appeared for reconciliation purposes, because his wife had said that in order "to get the divorce through would have Up to that time you say you had lone to appear.
r. He met her daring that time everything you could to get your husband at her parents house. They were on friend-back -Yes.
You went to see your husband-Ye ly terms, and her family knew of the
Did Assault him?-As much as he
"you' pretended
Did they know it was assaulted:
Did you hit him on the head with a poker? am certain they did. stated that he and his wis-had-No discussion, the purport of which was that eir affection was not such as to make, a happy
marriage, and divorce was the best thing.
to remain on friendly terme; also to write and to inform the other either married again. Ten months at ter The Hague decrse he wrote to his wife's mother,
As regards M. and
Thyself, I still don't know for certain which is for the beat. I should be very glad to hear from you if you have talked things over with Marie." "At the time if his wife had asked him he would have gone back to her. He though; the German marriage was a legal contract when he wrote Mra Schutt ex pressing surprise at the news about Marie,
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Did you strike him in the face -I did: Have you threatened to shoot his sister? Not that I know of. I was an innocent woman, and he charged me. 1 said he was dishonourable, that he had lied to my father and had broken his word after awearing not to have a divorce. I then whipped him with HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD.
riding whip. He had charged me publicly in an ion with adultery.
The President, in giving judgmont, said it was apparent respondent was an emotional woman. He was satisfied that, being afraid of her life, she was coerced into the German marriage. By reason of the habitual drunkenness of the German he wasfincapable of cohabitation. Outside romance such a could hardly be conceived. His lord- ship perpetual purgatory with the man for a year and a halt.
his, and her husband in atercourse with him,
letters said he did not believe she was
and hoping she would be happy. He marriaged her statement that she lived in
knew of the death of the Germann officer early in 1919. He had written to his wife, "I never thought you did wrong. I did not come up to expectations.
Mr. Willis: Was that your attitude with regard to the marriage in Germany 3-Yes.
At that time you were a consenting party to the marriage in Germany 1-Yes.
* ACCUSED AS A' STY,
bis
she never had
capable of immorality. She had a sincers affection for petitioner, and bis lordship did not find her guilty of the alleged misconduct. Petitioner had thought fit to take part in s collusive transaction for divorce, and, so far Respondent gave evidence. She stated as his conduct could do, to set his wife that she belonged to a well-known Dutch free from the obligations of the marriage family. Her father had become & general tie He contemplated that she would in the Netherlands Army. She declared | remarry, It seems to me imposible," con- that the marriage to petitioner was one of tinued his lordship, "under the law of this. great affection. Afterwards she applied for country, to say that a woman who is sanc a dissolution of the marriage because the tioned by her husband in withdrawing from thought her husband did not care enough for and disregarding the marital tie, and sanc tinned in setting up a new connabial rela her.
The President pointed out that it was a tionship, could afterwards be mado a victim collusive decres obtained on pretended of a petition such as this, and charged with grounds.
being an adulteress in such a way that enabled the man engaged in the transaction. to divorce her. To my mind divorce under circumstances such as that would not be an act of justice, but of abuse of justice. This petition is dismissed, with costs."
espondent said she saw her husband in 1014, and lived with him at an hotel in London and at Wootton-under-Edge. They lived as man and wife. She next saw him in 1919. In August, 1014, he went to Germany, and on Oct. 28th, 1915, she married the Ge
German officer, whose sequaintance sho
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had made a few weeks previously. Ho forced REVERENCING THE U.S. FLAG- her into the marriaga He asked her three times to marry him and she refused.
Ha went down on his kuses" and, cried. He said "I PRESIDENT HARDINGS COMMANDS. Was the only woman in the world who could save him from a great complaint In a speech before the National Flag which he barl He drank a lot (said Conference at Washington on June 14th, She told him that, according to President Harding agreed the time arrived lar, she was married. She inform when more reverence should be di ed, and said he would not trouble her again. rules, be coded for the guidance of him who ber husband was. He apologis played in America for the national flag, the idea that simple A couple of days later he asked her to keep rules ba
ed
glish
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later he returned, and when he opened bare their heads when the fing it the attache ease be looked at me in au carried in procession, but the custom is not awful way. She told him she had not universal, and it is complained that viola
etiquette are not to substitute not always due what this means. There are important to ignortance, but to a desire to papers in this bag. You are the wife the Red Flag of Communism for the red, British officer and you are a spy." In white, and blue. Mr. Harding suggested for all Americans
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