1938-12-22 — Page 11

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December 22, 1938.

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AIRMAN

The King's Pew

Divorce Jury Told Of Was Robin's Perch

Wife's Cruise

A SPECIAL JURY disagreed recently in a divorce case

in which a naval officer complained that his wife and an R.A.F. officer occupied cabins near cach other on a long cruise.

Lieut.-Commander Roland Charlton Allen, R.N., of Linden- gardens, Notting Hill, W., petitioned in the Divorce Court for n decreo against Mrs. Mora Allen, who lives at Pit Farm-road, Guildford.

The President, Sir Boyd Merri-1 man, discharged the jury after the foreman had reportedl that the disagreement was substantial.

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., had been briefed for Lieut.-Commander Allen, and Sir Patrick Hastings,) K.C., for Mrs. Allen.

Commander Allen charged his wife with misconduct with Wing Com-| munder John Valentine Steele, of the R.A.F. and claimed damages from him. The allegation denied.

A robin perched on the pow edge in front of the King and Queen while they were at morning service at the little villago church of St. Paul's, Waldon, noar Hitchin (Horts), recently,

The King and Queen look- ed at each other and smiled.

The robin had proviously been flying round the insido of the church.

In Dartmoor

Mother's Crisis Language Classes

Fears For Babies

Once the home of French prisoners of war, Dartmoor! Prison is now a school for con- victs learning French.

Mrs.. Was

The marriage of Commander and Mrs. Allen took place in July 1925, and there are three children. "CONSTANT VISITS"

Worried by the crisis, Jennie Margaret Dormer of Wood Green, went to get masks for her family.

This was revealed In the recent (29), Government report on prisons, and gas- recently Mr. C. Hartley, a muster at Tavistock Grammar School, who is teaching the men, said:

She learned that none were pro- vided for infants.

Sir Boyd Merrimon, in suniming-

That added to her depression. up, said that if the jury were satin-

At the Old Bailey recently, when ned that there was a guilty affection Mr. Dorner was charged with the between Mrs. Allen and Wing Commurder of her baby. Mr. Christmas mander Steele it could not be dis-Humphreys, prosecuting, said she puted that there had been ample, had not fully recovered from the opportunity to indulge it.

birth of her second child when the crisis came.

There had been constant week end visits of Wing Commander It had such an effect on her mind Steele 10 Mrs. Allen's house at that she put the baby in the oven, Guildford, some times alone, and fund it died from gas poisoning. two prolonged cruises,

The jury had been asked by Com- mander Alten to draw the inference that the visits and cruises were un- dertaken because Mrs. Allen and the Wing Commander wanted to com- mit misconduct.

It was for the jury to say whether they were affirmatively satisfied that that inference ought to be drawn. There had been no evidence of indiscreet conduct

either

cruise,

WOMAN OF MEANS

on

Except for the statement of one of Mrs. Allen's servants, there had been no evidence of any net of endear- ment between Mrs. Allen and Wing Commander Steele at her house.

Witnesses called by her from her household all said they had never

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"I spend only an hour and a halt week in the prison, but marking the men's homework takes much longer than teaching them.

They are absolute gluttons for homework and as a result make rapid progress. I find that a man knowing no French at nil usually reaches school certificate standard within a year."

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SURPRISE FOR OFFICIAL Mr. G. A. Napps (defending) sald Several of the prisoners could pass that in the crisis Mrs. Dormer did the higher nehool certificates not know whether to take her child-amination, added Mr. Harlicy. ren to a place of safety or to stay When a French Government of- with her husband.

ftefal visited the prison he was sur- Arrangenients had now been male prised to And men who could for her to stay with a friend in the

with him in his fluently country until she had fully re-own language.

covered.

Mrs. Dormer's plea of infanticide was accepted nd she was bound over for two years.

seen anything wrong.

converse

Three of Mr. Hartley's pupils have written him since licir release to inform him that the French classes had helped them to secure employ- ment.

One is now a travel agent and Dealing with the question of another a taxi-driver specialising in damages, Sir Boyd said Commander showing foreigners the sights of Allen was lying on his pay, and his London. wife was a woman of considerable German einsses

arc Now to be started.

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