JUDGE CUTS THE KNOT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 7

JUDGE CUTS THE KNOT.

MORE UNHAPPY MARRIAGES. UNDEFENDED SUITS. Four marriages were dissolved this morning at tie Supreme Court, the respondent in each case being content to allow the law to take its course without putting in an appearnce. In the case of a returned soldier named Ernest Dalrymple Mackie, formerly a builder, who was asking for a divorce from Mary Harriet Teresa Mackie, the ground was misconduct. The husband spoke of what he had seen on a steamer and elsewhere, and put in documente signed by respondent. Petitioner said the whole trouble was caused by the wife's desire to live in the city. A decree nisi was granted, and the children were left in the woman's custody in terms of a deed of separation which couneel (Mr. Gould) said were verystrict. Jessie Dorothea Sewell asked the Court to grant her a divorce from William Sewell, a brass-moulder, Auckland, giving ill-treatment as the reason. Mr. Hall Skelton called evidence to show that the first year or two of the marriage was all right; but then the husband got callous and thought more of fishing and hie greyhounds than of his wife, fie turned her out five years ago, and since then she had fended for herself. The decree wall granted 3 (, Petitioner did not ask for the children as the respondent was, she said, a good father, but a bad husband. William F. Xarbey. of Te Awamutu, a returned soldier, wn* married in 1915, at Eltham, and in the same year went to the war. It was alleged that his wife, Eva Mildred Xarbey, had broken her vow, and Mr. Fleming called two witnesses, one of whom was a private detective who tracked the respondent and a strange man to the Albert and Western Parks in Auckland. The decree was granted. Misconduct was the reason given for asking for a necreo in the petition of Eileen A. Datre v. R. Dacre. Mr. R. P. Towle, who appeared for the wife, called two witnesses, who were able to satisfy the Court. The Court β-nvo petitioner the custody of the children.