HUNTING-FIELD ACQUAINTANCE

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 26 January 1912, Page 2

HUNTING-FIELD ACQUAINTANCE

LADY WITH £IO,OOO A YEAB. A recree nisi with costs was granted In the London Diyorce Court last month by Mr. Justice Bargrave r>eane to Mr. Owen Talbot Price, bf Westwood Crcrooomjbe, Taunton, solicitor, on account ot the misconduct of his wife, Mrs. Marion Price, with Mr Joseph Hewlett Brooke. The suit was undefended. Mr. Barnard said a claim for damages had been withdrawn. The lady had a large fortune and had expressed her intention of executing a power of appointment la favour of the only child of th e marriage. The parties were married on September 27, 1900, at St. Nicholas's Church, Shepperton. They lived at Lyndbnrst and Brockenhurst in Hampshire. The only child was born In 1901. At the end of 1907 Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Price became acquainted with the co-respondent, who had come to reside In the district They first met In the huntingfield. On September 27, 1908. Mrs Trice went to stay with friends In the neighbourhood of Taunton. Her husband also was to have come down there, but Mrs. Price wrote a letter putting him off and suggested that he would be better hunting at home. WIFE'S FAREWELL LETTER. On September 30, Mr. Price received the following letter: — "Dear Owen, —You must not expect to see me any more. Of course, I have behaved very badly indeed, but I have never cared for you as much as 1 ought to have done, and now I find I can care for someone else. I am going away, and It will be kindest if you will not try to follow me. I do not think yon would be able to find me. "This has not happened because of the trouble a fortnight ago, but it was bound to come, and it really Is nil my fault. I would much rather you did not write, as nothing can make any difference now. "I have seen and will arrange everything through Mr. Arthur Newton, 23, Great Marlborough-street. If you really care for me It will be kindest to divorce me as soon as you can. "MARION." Inquiries were made at the Savoy Hotel and In Paris. To that city Mr. Price went and tried to Induce his wife to come back. She refused to see him. Mr. Price, in the course of his evidence, stated that his wife was daughter of the late Mr. Peter Robinson and had £IO,OOO a year. At the time of his marriage he was a solicitor, but gave up practice. When he went to the hotel in Paris he sent up his card asking his wife to see him. Her reply was "Certainly not." "I would take her back now If she came back," said the petitioner. Evidence was given that Mrs. Price and the co-respondent were together at the Savoy Hotel and the Elysee Palace Hotel. His lordship granted a decree nisi, made an order for costs against both the respondent and co-respondent, and gave Mr. Price the custody of the child.