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SPANKED HIS WIFE.

Remarkable Divorce Evidence.

and smashed my hat down over my eyes. The reference in his diary with regard to this had boon alterod by someone.. her?...

Did you mutilate it ?Whit,

(langlitor).—Oh, no.

Mr. Le Bas: No,, the diary?

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eaid: "Cherub, this cannot go on. There are only two courses open to us-oither separation or divorce." She replied: "Sopara- tion won't suit mo." Ho never offered to provide his wife with evidence for a divorce if she would not drag Mrs. Roche's name into the caso, wrote a lotter to his wife about 'On October 13, 1010, witness thoir financial affairs, and said:

Some remarkable evidence was given at the Divorce Court in London on Feb. 17, in the suit in which the petitioner is Mrs. Mr. Studley went on to deny Beatrice Studley, the daughter of his wife's version of the lift in- a retired Army officer, who asks oidont. He never, threw her on for a dissolution of her marriago the floor of the lift, telling her to with Mr. John Tatahol! Studley, go to h. What happened on the ground of his alleged was this. There had been some

Our income may be £200 less cruelty and misconduct. Mr. difference of opinion. When they through your interference. You Studley lenios the charges, and got into the lift witness pulled should have thought of the boy, alleges that the petitioner has her the cord. The lift jerked, and for you are throwing away his self been guilty of misconduct when they got to the top witness birthright for a mess of ignor with Mr. Arthur Koano Tharp, of stopped it.

The estate, pro-{ Fawloy, Southampton. Both Mrs. Studley and Mr. Thurp dony

Mr. Studley, who, before his marriage, had been engaged in big game hunting in Africa, is some years older than his wife.

Mr. Lo Bas: Jave you ever In her evidence Mrs. Studloy attempted to strangle your wife? gave instances of allegod cruelty-Nover. by her husband, and also declared he had admitted misconduct with

Threat of Suicide,

anco.

any. Your life and happiness is in the balance. You must choose for yourself.

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On that dato, March 23, 1909, hably, will not fotch £15,000 points out how damping the Mr. Studley entered in his diary!ufter paying mortgages. I have Do you think so is to the cold "I beg your pardon?" or the allegations, while Mrs. Muriel"I am sick of my life. The set cautioned you time after time, man who is on the point of be Rocha Intervenes, denying the fish stupid Beatrice. We have but you chose to go in your own misconduct alleged against her had such a row, and I don't caro ay sadering money.am to be allowed to air his opinions coming expansive and who hopes by the petitionor. The ease is if I never go home again. Bea- dreadfully upset about it, but you boing hoard, before Sir Samuel trice and I dined alone. Very will live to find you cannot ride There are men who habitually a subject as some length. Evans nust a special jury, and the stiff evening," Mrs. Studley's rough-shod over everybody. Divorce Court was crowded when entry was as follows: "Dined

check us in this way. They are In a later lotter witness wrote human fullstops. In their pro- his Lordship took his soat,

cabun, and afterwards with me. out, and Cui got into a rago with his wife, and said :---

sonce, the conversation runs into My Dear Beatrice,-I am writ-a blind alley. You throw out a Tried to kill me in the lifting to put the position which has feeler, "Awful," you say, this Mother torrified."

rison before you, and to say on about tho Insurance Act, isn't it?" what terms I am prepared to ro-Think so?" they say, and you turn to Wilton-stroot, thus giv-wonder if a remark on Rugby ing our matrimonial venture an-football would lent, to a more other chance, lam loth to do any aninusted rush of dialoguo. Ono I see the pages in your diary thing in a hurry, both for the of the worst of this class was the Mrs. Roche. In support of her from August 28. to September 7 boy's sake, whom I worship, and man who intervened in the cor caso, she produced entries from have been torn out bodily. Did for your own. I cannot forgot respondence on the subject of her diary. Mr. Studley's diary you do it Certainly noi, has also formed an important.

that you are my boy's mother, paying fares on tramcars with Witness admitted that ones hound that we have spont eight the cold statement that, strictly feature of the case.

opted to throw himself out years together. Looking back speaking, a fare could not be of the window at Sloane-street. upon the past, I can honestly say collected until the end of a he and his wife had had a fright-I have spent only one your of journey. Dozens of enthusiasts ful row about something or other, lappiness, and that, was the year who had thought out interisoly and she tingged him to such an before the boy's birth. You were brainy schemes of the pay-as-you- extent that he threatened to reasonablo and sweet and kinde ontor order must have felt as if throw himself out of the window, and if you had continued in thi they had run into an iceberg. My wife got hold of ute" he way we should have been. There is no douling with those said, "for the purpose of keep-huuppy pair. You fondly imagin nion. The ordinary man wante Mr. Lo Bas: Throughout your ing mo back, and, turning round that I am a weak, good-natured the conversation to go on. The marrion life have thoro bean con- to her dressing-table, took up a fool, becauso I have given way to full-stops want to pounce upon it 27] stant difficulties about money.silver-backed Brush and cut me you. matters, and has that led to over the head with it, breaking

and nip it in the bud, It is not. possible to ignore them. In fact, quarrels ?-Yes.

Mr. Le Bas put to the witness said: 'You little brute Sho tho handle. I turned round and

The loitor continued:

for a garrulous man, existence in THE the, abusive expressions he was then threw herself on the bed when this is no longer bourable, solf-The "Globe."

Now the tims hus arrivod sible, and he must resign him- thair, presence is almost impos alleged to have used. Witness and kicked at no with her heels, now that you tell me it is unna- denied them all.

and I deliberately spanked her," tural and unmanly to love my Mr. Studley, after describing own boy, and tell me it is not the scene between himself and

nocessary to kiss him. This is

The respondent in the witness box now denied that before his marriage he told Mrs. Studley that he had an income of £1,500 year. Ilis net income was about £600 a year. He had settled practically everything he possess ed upon his wife.

Ard these the sort of expres- sions you are in the habit of using towards your wife y muy body else?-No.

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his wife stated that later on the not meant to be a sermon but to same day she "went for him," show you that a woman's tonguo The first charge of cruelty there was a row over the baby life unbearablo.

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camo into the room, and said she little beast." thought he would make a mosa Referring to the interview with guorant woman, although you with the paint. He assured her his wife in January, 1911, wit-lave everything to gain. New I ho would not, and aftor a while ness donied he con fossad miscon

will tell you exactly on what torms) just touched her on the cheok duct. He told her he would de-, will return to Wilton-street. with the brush in bis hand. It fond the case, as there was a wo-You must first of all curb your COST OF INSTALLATION QUICKLY ABSORBD BY was not true that he deliberately man's name, and Mrs. Studley tongue and tempor, and treat dipped the brush in the paint pot deliberately asked him to put

mo with due consideration. ECONOMY IN FUEL and thrust the brush in her eyes. himself in the wrong. At the You cannot drive me, and I On the night of the Calodonian came time he told her he would not allow you to rule the roost as you toll you frankly that I cannot ball in June, 1906, while dress-make any charges against her, ing, witness daid he complained as I did not want to drag her have done. You think you are a that some trimmings wore not on name down to the dirt."

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Did you ever say to your wife ing of the sort. result that Mrs. Studley went that if she took you back ale

I am in the invidious position for me, smashed me in the face could go her own way and do ne

of having no estate, no furniture, with her fiste, pulled my hair, she liked ?-No.

no silver, and worst of all, no and generally ill treated me." It is said you have made con- baby. You must also retract the Mr. Lo Bas: In the diary, the fessions of misconduct with Mrs. allegations contained in your let-

AGENCY, LD, entry relating to the incident has Roshe and some other person. ter of the 11th. I cannot pro- obviously been altered. Did you Have your ever confessed to mis-mise to provide you with money alter it? No. It eriginally road;

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Did you confess to misconduct for I must save money for the hor fis's."

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