CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7] — Page 387

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Mr. Tacchi states that he arrived in England on the

9th July, 1919, and met his wife in London, and went with her to Inverness. Mrs. Tacchi had a miscarriage on the 14th August, and Mr. Tacchi maintains that his wife must have committed adultery. On the other hand he produces a certificate from a doctor at Inverness that the miscarriage was "about three weeks pregnant". Mr. Tacchi did not tax his wife with adultery and he has never done so. He tried to get her to come back to him. She suggested a divorce, giving no grounds.

Mr. Tacchi produces correspondence with solicitors. In a letter dated the 26th February his solicitors asked that Mrs. Tacchi should either agree to the separation terms or supply such information as would enable Mr. Tacchi "to proceed upon the other alternative". On the 25th March Mr. Tacchi wrote to his solicitor "It may be that my wife will consent to supply evidence for a divorce, as that is what was meant by the veiled reference to the other alternative". Mr. Tacchi had changed his solicitor, and had forwarded the previous corres- pondence. The correspondence shows that Mr. Tacchi required that the manner of his son spending his holidays must be left to him, and he insisted on clause 5, which, he states, was a dum casta clause. Mrs. Tacchi would not accept these proposals. The separation deed provided for £7 a month. Mr. Tacchi shows copies of letters in November, 1919, to his wife and her mother asking that his wife should come back to him.

Mr. Tacchi is living with her mother who is fairly well off, owing some house property in Portsmouth.

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C. J. Tacchi.