INDER v. INDER.

Lawyer Wants a DiyprceAil

X A 7 matrimonial suit disclosing a sin-< gularly unhappy, state of .domestic m- ' felicity' occupied the attention of his < . Honor 'Mr Justice Edwards and a /jury ■ . of twelve on .Friday and Saturday of j last- \veek, when William. "Francis > iln der, A 'barrister, and solicitor, of Gore,^ aue'd for divorce from his vrtfe, LeahT , Lillian. Inder, on -.the- ground of her

mis.cortduct with Arthur Stoddart, who was c^ted as, co-respondent.

Dr. ■ Bamford. .(instructed by' Mr Ha".na) appeared fbr the petitioner, and Mr Singer, for the respondent, correspondent-- did not file a de-

■TjEr.ce.. , ... ." / . . , j The parties were mar/.-led at Dunedin in" May,, ; l9o6, and then an event nr-'ciired "at 7ra * seaside/ resort which ok U3ed_ -.the-' husband /tb break up . his honie,^ 'while' his wife' went, to her people' ior some mbnt'hs.- Later on, m, r.nswer'tb art appeal'' from her, he took j lief back, and tt^y went to reside at the Southland Hc^el. The wife's ac«_-

itions. became Inexplicable,- and then I the husband was horrified to. learn I that she -was a, victim to the morphia inhabit. Irider paid 24 medical bills and •placed, her .m a private hospital, having found enough morphia under her ['mattress and elsewhere' to kill a couple of - hundred people. In 1908 they separated under a deed, m compliance with which he allowed her so much. Inder said he had seen her only once since then, but it was shown he had seen her several times. She rushed at liim _ "7jind presented a 'revolver as he was on the. Dunedin railway platform. Inder did not know Stoddart, but saw him once at a country race-meeting, wheresietoddart-was pointed out to him as a .'-"guesser," and Inder recognised on ; Stoddarfs hand a diamond ring which was Inderls property, same having been . lent to ' Mrs Inder. It transpired;'' that Inder had previously been divorced for misconduct in' 1903.

Mrs : Inder, a neatly-dressed and fraigile little wo^n', said she had repeatedly been ordered morphia,, and her "Husband had frequently brought it" 'to her. She had discovered letter's 'to her husband from a Mrs Black, at; Gore, signed, "Your loving pet, ' ' and he ' had told / her that he7Would get rid' of her if it cost him £1000. She indignantly denied misconduct with Stoddart. His Honor having summed up, the jury found m favor of respondent, and,; after some comments upon the frequency of perjairy : m the courts, the petition was dismissed, with costs. 7 , '