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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.

Members of the Kowloon Chinese Y.MLC.A. who gathered for p Christmas party on the Club grounds.

He denied that he had refured to juges he seems to me to have made 29-Year-Old Bride

consummate the morrlage and alleged a miserable show." that his wife had refused.

Mrs. Davis denied her husband's i allegations.

Mr. and Mrs. Davies were married on March 31, 1934, nt Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel, Swansea, and lived together at Skelty, Swansen.

The case for Mrs. Davies was that her husband assaulted her while she lived with blm and she left him in May, 1034. A separation agreement was entered into on September 18 of i that year.

"DISGRACEFUL LETTERS

"THIS IS TO CERTIFY_" During the period of courtship Mr. Davies received, as he said, the fol- lowing certificate from his fanece:

For Knight Of 81

Notice has been given at a London register office of thic forthcoming This is to certify that my flance marriage of Sir Andrew Hislop Pettl and 1 resume our courtship

on grew, 81-year-old widower, of St. probation as a disengaged couple Andrew's Club, Whitehall Court, from the beginning of April, 1932, S., and Miss Joan Coltam, nged and that my retention of the en-28, of Gloucester Place, N.W. gagement ring is by no means on The wedding is to take place at Indication that I am engaged until the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, I receive some other definite evid George Street, Brynston Square. ence from him to this effect," It was not surprising, sald the

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ONLY 15 guineas was received by Mr. St. John 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.

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

"The correspondence shows that tan rejected the husband's allegation It was not easy to Imagine that any the is possessed of a most fantastic that evidence given by imparting wil man would have been so mean-souled unugination," the judge added. "Ite nesses was a tissue of lies, and that as to ask the girl to whom he was apparently Foca about the jury should be exempted from further service for seven years, Mr. Justice Asquith, who said be would recommend that the he was a victim of conspiracy beenged to sign such a document. under the impression that people are

ara satisfied that he concocted plotting against him. He seems to added that he thought publicity should be given to the fact that Over a series of years Davies had this document so that he might have have a totally exaggerated sense of defending counsel and solicitors, who had worked so well and so written letters to la wife which something in his favour in ense he his own importance.

hard for Budd, received only nominal fees under the Poor Persons were a disgrace to any man.

wanted to break off the engagement. "SLANDER WITH IMPUNITY" Act.

"He uses his pen to slander other people with considerable impunity.

tween neighbours.

I think that is an excellent indication'

of Mr. Davies's character."

NOT GENUINE

ol song freakish imagination of his own. He did not believe his story that the wife had refused.

"They have no reason in them, and I am sure they have no truth in them." sald the judge. "They con-

It is as well that he should be warned stitute, on his own evidence, à mere Later, Mr. Davies, following just that this is a dangerous method of farrogo of rubbish.

the same line, and after he had been procedure"""

Mr. Justice Langton said he be- "They are false all through, and the "parated from his wife, persuaded, uncontrolled freedom and fury with her to write a letter in which she ex-eved Mr. Davies hd refused to which he dings charges about, with-pressed sorrow for what she had sald consummate the marriage "because out any evidence at nil to substantiate and done. them, against all and sundry, shows Just what was in his tortuous mind that he is a man mean, spiteful and, at that time the judge did not pretend

Upon that issue along Mrs. Davica clear there was nothing was entitled to a decree of nullity. genuine in his mind when he made a As to the issue of cruelty, again her "I regard his conduct as beyond suggestion that he wished his wife to story rang true. excuse. It is said he was labouring return and resume married life, under strong emotion. That may be "It is again a inanoeuvre-one of wife," said the judge. "There was In some way polllation. The husband that class of really nican manoeuvres no condonation and she never went Is a school teacher and a religious of which Mr. Davies seems to be a back to her husband after he was tencher, and with all these advant-muster. He hoped to manoeuvre her cruel to her."

to use his own favourite expression,

Vindictive and very inaliclous,

to know,

It was

I belleved this man did kick his

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

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

COUNSEL'S SKILL

Hnd Mr. St. John Hutchinson been briefed in the ordinary way his skil would have earned him a high fec. Eminent counsel have received as much as 1,000 guinchs for defending murder and people charged with other serious offences.

Budd, who was charged with the murder of his friend, Francis Cyril Newlands, sleward at Temple Chambers, E.C., was kept waiting two and a half hours before the jury reached a verdict.

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

HER TEARS

Crying, "Oh, my dear boy, my dear boy, his mother burst into tears of rellet as the saw him walking to- wards her, Both thanked police- officers of the court for the consi- deration shown to them during their long ordeal.

Budd said: "This is a just verdict."i

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WINKING WOMAN AWARDED £1,500

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SCARS

as the result of f motor-cnr Miss Maisey, who was thrown accident, t Wembley school-through a window of her car, was mistress was awarded £1,500 badly cut and scars were still visible damages in the King's Bench on her face and neck. Division recently.

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