"JACK AND EDIE."

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 283, 28 November 1924, Page 8

"JACK AND EDIE."

MARRIED MAN'S AFFAIR. WIFE GETS SEPARATION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON", this day. In a case set down for hearing "to-day in which Eleanor 'Sophia Fisher sought divorce from John Fisher, land agent, of Hamilton, respondent withdrew his answer, and it was unnecessary therefore to empanel a jury. Petitioner said she married respondent in 180:5, and they had three children. In the early part of this year she was taken ill and went into YVaikato Hospital. fShe was discharged and went for a short holiday. On her return home she noticed a decided coolness on the part of her husband. She again went into hospital, where her husband paid her several visits. While there she received anonymous letters which caused her to instruct her daughter to watch her father. When she was discharged on the second occasion hor husband drove her home, but never spoke to her on the journey or during a few subsequent days on which they lived together. Their furniture was then sold, and petitioner went to Auckland. Ruby Kleanor Ooris Fisher, a daughter, said that, in consequence of what she learned and of letters written by her father, she was instructed by her mother to keep a watch on her father. This she did, keeping notes of all happe«ings. One night she and a man *he was engaged to followed her fatlier"s car along the river road. When vhe enr pulled up her father had a woman in the ear with him. William Krnest Tliggins corroborated this statement and said that on another occasion he followed respondent's car on his cycle as far as Peacock Road, where the car pulled up and the lights went out. Witness then crept along and got under the car, where he heard conversation between respondent and a woman he addressed as "Edie," and who spoke of him as "Jack." A decree for judicial Reparation was granted, the question of costs being reserved.