SOCIETY DIVORCE SUIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 172, 23 July 1928, Page 7

SOCIETY DIVORCE SUIT.

LADY BONN'S CASE FAILS. (United -Service.) LONDON". .1 uly 22. The Court found Sir Max .1. Bonn not rniiltv of misconduct as was alleged in Sis wife's petition for divorce, winch was dismissed. Lady* Bonn had alleged repeated misconduct on Lie pa it of het husband in Paris and 111 the West tnd of London, but the judge, in summing up, pointed out that the only evidence of misconduct came from paid watchers two loose Parisian women. The case had lasted three weeks. If the hubsand's counter-suit, in connection with which the names of Sir honald Waterhouse, private secretary to the Prime Minister, and Mr. Arthur Marcus Hanburv aro mentioned, should be eauallv'prolonged the records under the modern divorce law will be broken. The legal costs amount to £50,000, and 14 barristers, including six King's Counsel, have been engaged.

Sir Max J. Bonn is a merchant banker of London. He was born in New York in 1877, and "was married in 1920 to Hilda Beatrix, vounger daughter of the late .Tames Watkins. Six Max is a partner in Bonn and Company, which in 1921 amalgamated with Helbert Wagg and Company, Ltd. He is also a director of the Bank of London and South America, Ltd., and deputy chairman of United Glass Bottle Manufacturers, Ltd.