ONLY THREE WEEKS OF MARRIED LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 191, 12 August 1911, Page 17

ONLY THREE WEEKS OF MARRIED LIFE.

LADT JOURNALIST AFTER TWO SUITS OBTAINS DIVORCE. A TEARFUL EPISTLB. A three weeks' married life, followed by a restitution suit, and then a successful divorce case, all In sixteen months, has beeii the unique experience of Mrs. Catherine Emma Winby, who stated in the London Divorce Court on Saturday, June 24, that she was engaged In newspaper work. She married the respondent, Mr. Ivor Scott Winby, on February 19, 1910, at the British Consulate, Paris, and they afterwards lived together In Jermyn-street. It was stated that Mr. Winby had been engaged in literary work in Paris. On March 11, three weeks after the marlage, the respondent left her, and sent her a note, saying that he could not live with her any more. On March 22 she sent him the following letter: "Ivor, dear, —I received your hurried note on returning to our rooms yesterday afternoon. To tell you my feelings of utter un happiness and loneliness is Impossible. I am simply broken-hearted, and I feel it must be some horrible dream, from which I must awaken. Do you realise we hi%c only been married three weeks to-day, and before these three weeks have expired you leave me, after writing these few lines, to say that it is impossible for you to live with me any more? Why do you leave me In this terrible -way. utterly alone; and rwhat have 1 clone to make It impossible that you should live with me any more? Do think, Ivor, ana" try to realise the position In which you are placing ine. You arc branding me, as it were, after three weeks of married life, as a woman with whom it Is impossible to live. Try and realise the position, and your feelings if it were one of your own sisters who had been treated In this horrible way. Please come back to me and make a home for us together. I cannot believe that you arc seriously resolved to desert me in this fashion—you who pride yourself on being a man of houour and a gentleman whose leading characteristic Is kindness. Do not, I beg of you, do a cowardly act of which you are bound to feel ashamed for the rest of your life. Please write to me as soon as you get this, and tell me you are coming back. I will live with you wherever you like, and ■will help you In all your worries and troubles. I will do all I can to make you happy, and be a true and loving wife to you."

' To that letter no reply was sent, and Mr 9. Wtnby fllcd a petition for restitution of conjugal rights, and obtained a decree. The order of the court that Mr. Winby should return to his wife had not been complied with, and that, according to the statute, constituted the desertion in the present case, In which Mrs. Wlnby applied In the Divorce Court to have her marriage dissolved.

After she had caused inquiries to be made, her husband sent her n letter pointing out that she could get evidence for a divorce if inquiries were made at the Lord Warden Hotel, Dover. This was done. She was granted a decree nisi for the dissolution of the marriage, with costs.