WIFE TWICE FORGIVEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 21 January 1905, Page 13

WIFE TWICE FORGIVEN.

PAFNFTJL STORY OF A SOUTH ! AFRICAN FARM. The story of a wife whose unfaithfulness was twice forgiven by her husband was told by Mr Barnard iv support of the ur.defended petition brought by Mr Sydney Allen Hankey for a dissolution of his marriage with Mrs Kathleen Amy Hankey owing to her misconduct with the co-re-spondent, Wilton Attweil. The petitioner said he married his wife lon April 27, 1895. at Weldon's Matrimonial Agency in Sydney, X-S.W. The parties lived in Sydney for a time, and then went to South Africa. Till 1399 the marriage proved happy, when Wilton Attweil appeared on the scene. He was In the Colonial Scouts. The petitioner and Attweil joined in partnership in a farm, the latter resigning his commission for that purpose. The husband was not aware of his wife's affection for AxtweTl till one day he found them both in the orchard in a very compromising position. Mr Hankey Immediately turned the co-respondent out of the house, but eventually forgave ids wife. Later. Mr Hankey said, he was despatched with the Imperial Light Horse to Ladysmith, hating arranged that his wife and child should go to his frjeode at New Hanover. While lying ill ia Ladysmith he received a letter from a relation which sent him off as soon as possible in search of his wife, whom he found to be staying at the Lowther Hotel, Durban. Wilton Attweil was also residing there. The petitioner thereupon took away his cl.iid. Subsequently he asked his wi.'e to return, an invitation she accepted, promising newr to see the co-respondent again. Very soon after he had to leave for Ma feting with his regiment, it being arranged that the respondent should go to England with her child. He received two or three lengthy letters from Mrs Hankey. One concluded, "Goodbye, desr. Think tenderly of mc sometimes, dear. I hope life will be soared t« both, so that I can prove my remorse." Another extract ran:—"Dear Sid, —This is probably the last letter I shall ever write to you. It is a terrible blow that clause about the custody of the child. For God's sake do not take my baby from mc. She is all I have to make life livable. She is oh, oh, so dear to me.' Clerks from the Hotel Cecil gave evidence showing that Attweil and Mrs Hankey occupied adjoining rooms there o& their -arrival in England, and that wfcem they departed Attweil paid the tin. His lofdsWp granted a dosee ~olsL with, .OTJtody-trf tbe cfcfl*.'