TELL-TALE LETTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 15

TELL-TALE LETTERS.

WRITTEN IN CYPHER. In the Court of Session In London, Lord Dewar beard evidence in an action of divorce brought by Lucy Evangeline Hal], or l-'ew, against Henry William Few, late of tbe Indian Telegraph Service. The marriage, said tbe plaintiff, took place iv IBOS, and two years later the respondent went to India, returning in 1013. Their married life was happy till 1015, when her suspicion was aroused by her husband's conduct with a young girl who was employed in Dundee. The wife visited the girl's lodgings, and, with tlie landlady's permission, examined her room. There she discovered n number of letters, which were submitted in court, written by the husband to the girl, and some written by the girl. The husband's letters were In cipher, and above the cipher characters was a pencilled translation by the girl. A woman who had been in the -wife's service as a cook said that when her mistress was away from home the girl I whistled to the respondent, and he went j out. and spoke to her in the garden. I Lord Dcwar granted a decree of divorce, I and in the circumstances agreed to recomi mend to tbe Indian Government that the expenses should be deducted from the respondent's pension if that were possible.