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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1938.

"MEAN-SOULED" MAN'S FIANCEE ON APPROVAL

-“Tortuous Mind” Says Judge ·

SCATHING remarks about a husband who, when engaged, induced his fiancee to sign a document of "courtship on probation," were made in the Divorce Court recently by Mr. Justice Langton, granting a decree nisi to Mrs. Mabel Annie Margaret Davies, of Crown' Street, Morriston, Swansea. ·

She sought divorce from her husband, David Ellis Davies, on the ground of cruelty, and alternatively asked for a decree of nullity, alleging that her husband had wilfully refused to consummate the marriage..

The husband denied this and counter-charged his wife with cruelty towards him.

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He denied that he had refused to ago, he sets to me to have made 29-Year-Old Bride City Murder Charge Acquittal

consinuate the marriage and allegedza iniserable show."

that his wife had refused.

Mrs. Davis denied her husband's allegations.

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Me and Mrs. Davies were married un March 31, 1934, at Mount Pleasant! Baptist Chapel, Swansea, and lived together at Skelty, Swansen,

The case for Mrs. Davies was that i her husband assaulted her while she lived with him and she left him la May, 1934. A separation agreement i was entered into on September 18 of; that year..

"DISGRACEFUL LETTERS

For Knight Of 81.

"THIS IS TO CERTIFY_" During the period of courtship Mr. [ Davies received, as he said, the fol-

Notice has been given at a London towing certificate from his dancer register office of Le forthcoming "This is to certify that my dance marriage of Sir Andrew slop Pet!!- and I resume our courtship on grew, 81-year-old widower, of Si.

a disengaged couple Andrew's Club, Whitehall Coun probation as from the beginning of April, 1932, S. and Miss Joan Coltam, ed and that my retention of the en-28, of Gloucester Place, N.W. gagement ring is by no means an The wedding is to take place al indication that I am engaged until the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, receive sume other definite evid: George Street, Brynston Square. ence from him to this effect."

was not surprising, sund the

It

jude, that Mrs. Davies had said that into a position in which he would be -he did not write this of her own able to get some financial advantage. Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Langaccord.

"The correspondence shows that ton rejected the husband's allegation it was not easy to imagine that any he is possessed of a most fantastic that evidence given by impartial witman would have been so men-souled imagination," the judge added. "He heuses was a tissue of lies, and that as to wok the girl to whom he was apparently

Boes about the world to sign such a document. under the impression that people are have a totally exaggerated sense of his own importance.

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Hutchinson, eminent K.C., for defending Horace Budd, 29-year-old engineer, of Hacton Drive, Hornchurch (Essex), who was found not guilty of murder at the Old Bailey recently.

he was a victim of conspiracy be- iena atisfied that he concocted | plotting against htm. lle seems to added that he thought publicity should be given to the fact that

tween neighbours.

Over a series of years Davies had this doctinent so that he might have written letters tu his wife which something in his favour in case be were a disgrace to any man.

wanted to break off the engagement. (I think that is an excellent indication

of Mr. Davies's character."

"They have no reason in them, and Im sure they have no truth in them," said the judge. "They con- stitute, on his own evidence, a mere farrago of rubbish.

NOT GENUINE

Later, Mr. Davies, following just the same line, and after he had been "They are false all through, and the rated from his wife, persuaded uncontrolled freedom and fury with her to write a felter in which she ex- which he sings charges about, with- prersed sorrow for what she had said cut any evidence at all to substantiate and done. them, against all and sundry, shows i Just what was in his tortuous mind that he is a mau mean, spiteful and, at that time the judge did not pretend

to use his own favourite expression, to know. 'Vindictive' and very malleious.

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"SLANDER WITH IMPUNITY” "He uses his pen to slander other people with considerable impunity

It is as well that he should be warned that this is a dangerous method of procedure""

Mr. Justice Langton said he be- lieved Mr. Davies hat refused to consummate the marriage "because of some freakish imagination of his own. He did not believe his story that the wife had refused.

Upon that issue alone Mrs. Davies WIN clear there was nothing) was entitled to a decree of nuliity. genuine in his mind when he made à As to the issue of cruelty, again her "I regard his conduct as beyond raggestion that he wished his wife to story rung true. excuse. It is said he was labouring return and resume married life.

"I believed this man did kick his under strong emotion. That may be "It is again a manoeuvre--one of: Wife," said the judge. "There was in some way palliation. The husband that class of really mean manoeuvres no condonation and she never went is a school teacher and a religinus of which Mr. Davies seems to be a fuck to her husband after he was teacher, and with all these advant-master. He hoped to manoeuvre her cruel to her."

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Mr. Justice Asquith, who said he would recommend that the jury should be exempted from further service for seven years,

defending counsel and solicitors, who had worked so well and so hard for Budd, received only nominal fees under the Poor Persons Act.

Mr. R. Blundell, junior counsel for the defence, received only ten guineas for his work and the solicitors only ten guincas.

This involved not only four days' appearance at the trial but prepara- tion and study of the evidence.

COUNSEL'S SKILL

Had Mr. St. John Hutchinson been briefed in the ordinary way his skill with have earned him a high fee.

Eminent counsel have received as much as 1,000 guineas for defending! people charged with murder and other serious offences.

Budd, who was charged with the murder of his triend, Francis Cyril Newlands, steward at Temple Chambers, EC was kept waiting two and a haff, Figurs before the jury reached a verdict.

After he had been told he was a free man he thanked the judge und the jury and left the dock to meet his mother and relatives outside the Furt

HER TEARS

Crying, "Oh, my dear boy, my dear! bay," his mother burst into tears of j relief as she saw him walking to- words her. Bath thanked police- aflcers of the court for the consi- deration shown to them during their lang ordeal.

--Buck said: "This is n Just verdict.” -

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A distraught mother told the stationmaster at Reading re- cently that the train in which she was travelling to

London had moved off while she was In the refreshment room buying milk for her five-manths-old baby, whom she had left In charge of another woman passenger.

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With tears in her eyes. the mother, Mrs. Johnson, of Bridg~ water, Somerset, walted at ftending until the arrival of the next train to London. When slic reached Paddington she found her baby safe and happy In the armis of the room attendant.

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WINKING WOMAN AWARDED £1,500

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Complaining that the had, Peetham. Each driver blained the acquired an embarrassing wink other. as the result of motor-cur

Miss Mounsey, who was thrown accident, a Wembley school-through a window of her car, was mistress was awarded £1,500 badly cut and stars were still visible damages in the King's Bench on her face and neck. Division recently.

Sir Harold Gillies, the plastic sur- geon.

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Miss Mounsey said that as a result

ly a professional ice hockey player, of an injury to a nerve she often who was driving her car at the time, gave the impression that she www Mr. W. A. H. Moody, Dalyell Road, winking

Stockwell, owner of the other car in- "It is very embarrassing at times," volved, and Mr. Frederick Georige jshe said. Before the accident she led Gaywood, Fenwick Road, East Dulan athlette life as a swimmer and wich, who was driving Mr. Moody's diver.

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The jury found negligence by Mr.

Shortly after midnight on Septem- | Gaywood,

ber 6, 1837 Mr. Chase was driving Judgment was entered for Miss Miss Mounsey back to Wembley from Mounsey against Mr. Gaywood for Bromley when the cars collided in £1,500 with costs.

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