"CEASED TO CARE."

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 24

"CEASED TO CARE."

SCOTS-XAIRD GRANTED DIVORCE. The beet man figured as co-defender In an action for divorce In which the parties concerned were all well-known Scottish •ociety people. The action was at the Instance of Claud Archibald Mackenzie Bruce Hamilton, of Barnes and Cochno, of Dumbartonshire,. against Mary Elizabeth Marjory Murray or Hamilton, residing at Worthing. John Creagh Scott, late major In the Army, and at present residing at the same address as the defender, was called as co-defender. Mr. HamUton stated that he was married at the Holy Trinity Church, Stirling, in October, 1916. There were three children of the marriage, and they were In his custodyt- They lived happily together till the end of July, 1923, when his wife left him to go to stay at Old Polmaise, which had been rented by the co-defender and his wife, Major and Mrs. Scott, from defender's father. Until October, 1933, he had no suspicion that his wife had transferred her affections to the co-defender. He had since that they lived together in December and January in a furnished flat in London. The co-defender and pursue* had been on most friendly terms. Major Scott had been best man at pursuer's wedding, and from the time of his marriage the families had been on visiting terms.' During these visits he had no suspicion that there was any affection. between hie wife and the codefender. When she returned after a visit on August 10, 1923,. she informed him that she had ceased to care for -him, but did not give him any indication that she had transferred her affections to the co-defender. In October, 1923, his wife left him and went to stay with her father at Polmaise. His father-in-law asked him to come to Polmaise, and told him that there was another man in the case, and that it was the co-defender. Ho was alsp told that his wife and the co-defender had gone to Crail, In Fife. , .s In November he received a letter from hie wife in which she said, "This letter will not come as a surpise to you. I met ' Joe ' here, and we are leaving for the Continent to-day." Evidence was given that Mrs. Harillton and Major Scott had lived together in London, and that Major Scott had been seen in the lady's room wearing a dreseinggown and pyjamas.- Decree, with expenses, against the co-defender, was granted.