1938-12-22 — Page 47

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NAVY OFFICER SUES CLEAN OUT YOUR

AIRMAN Divorce Jury Told Of Wife's Cruise

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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 a decree against Mrs. Mora Allen, who lives at Pit Farm-road, Guildford.

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

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., had been briefed for Lleut.-Commander Allen, and Sir Patrick Hastings, į K.C., for Mr. Allen.

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

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

The King's Pew

Was Robin's Perch

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, near Hitchin (Horta), recently.

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

The robin had previously been flying round the inside of the church.

In Dartmoor

Mother's Crisis Language Classes

Fears For Babies

Worried by the crisis, Mrs. Jennie Margaret Dormer (29), of Wood Green, went to get gas masks for her family.

She learned that none were pro- vided for infunts.

Sir Boyd Merrimon, in summing-

That added to her depression, up, sok that if the jury were satis-

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

birth of her second dild when the There had been constant week-crisis came. end visits of Wing Commander | it had such an effect on her mind Mrs. Allen's house at that she put the baby in the oven, Guildford, some tinies alone, and and it died from gas poisoning. two prolonged cruises.

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The jury had been asked by Com- mander Allen to draw the inference that the visits and cruises were un- derinken 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 thai Inference ought to be drawn.

There had been no evidence of indiscreet conduct on either cruise.

WOMAN OF MEANS

BOUND OVER

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

Government report on prisons, and the recent recently Mr. C. Hartley, a master at | Tavistock Grammar School, who is

teaching flig men, said:

This was revealed in

The classes have becomie cx- tremely popular.

"I spent only an hour and a half week in the prison, but marking The men's homework takes mucis longer than teaching them.

"They are absolute gluttons for homework and as a result make rapki, progress. I find that a man knowing no French at al usually reaches school cerificate standart within a year,"

SURPRISE FOR OFFICIAL

Mr. G. A. Napps (defending) said Several of the prisoners could pass that in the crials Mrs. Darmer did the higher school certificates ex- not know whether to take her child-amination, added Mr. Hartley.

ren to a place of safety or to stay When a French Government of- delal visited the prison he was sur- with her husband.

to prised

find men who could fluently converse

with him in his re-own language.

Arrangements had now been made for her to stay with a friend in the country until she had fully covered.

Mrs. Dormer's plea of infanticide

was necepted and she was bound over for two years.

Except for the statement of one of) Mrs. Allen's servants, there had been | seen anything wrong.

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

One is now a travel agent and no evidence of any act of endear- Dealing with the question of mother u tuxi-driver specialising fn- ment between Mrs. Allen and Wing damages. Sir Boyd sald Commander showing foreigners the sights of Commander Steele at her house. Allen was living on his pay, and his London.

Witnesses called by her from her wife was a woman of considerable household all said they had never

A Merry Christmas

means.

German classes аге now to be 'started.

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