A Tenner In Hand

NZ Truth, 15 March 1924, Page 6

A Tenner In Hand

RELIEVES DIVORCEE'S HOMESICKNESS. The last chapter has been written In the story of the tangled relations oi John Ernest Denton and the erstwhile wife of his bosom, Edyth Denton, whom he brought as his bride from England after tho war and whom he later divorced on the grounds of adultery. Two co-respondents were cited, and, at the end of a lengthy case heard ln Wellington towards the close ol last year, Denton was awarded £150 from each of them as compensatlon'foi the alienation of his wife's affections, The lady then yearned for tho home of her parents In England, and applied to the Court for £150 of the damages awarded to be paid over to her In order that she might be gone. When this matter was hqard Denton made an offer to provide the woman with a passage to England and allow her a small sum for expenses on the way. This scheme did not commend itselt to her, and eventually Mr. Justice Salmond made an order that £ 100 be paid over, but not to tho lady herself, The money was to be paid to her solicitor on tho condition that he secured a third class passage to England for her, paid £10 over to her before the vessel left, and remitted the remainder to England for the lady to collect on arrival. Accordingly £43 was paid to the New Zealand Shipping Company for a berth on the Ruapehu, which sailed on January 28 last. On the morning ol her departure, a clerk armed with n tenner sought Mrs. Denton ln her cabin and handed the money over. Apparently tho lady found a tenner In New Zealand more attractive than on board a ship with thc prospect of collecting £47 at tho other end, for no sooner had she pained possession of the note than she packed up and went ashore, and tho vessel left subsequently without her. Thc next event wns that tho balance of the hundred, which included a refund from the shipping company, was paid into Court, less a few filmslos for solicitors' fees, nnd tho lndy's petition for permanent alimony has gone by the bonrd.