TO MARRY AGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 4

TO MARRY AGAIN.

DIVORCEE'S PLANS. "CRUELTY" DECPEE NISI. FAMOUS TRIAL RECALLED. REIGATE, Surrey, September 3. Mrs. Alice Maude Mary Roberts (formerly Rutherford), whose "cruelty" decree nisi against Colonel Norman Cecil Rutherford, central figure of a famous murder trial 20 years ago, was made absolute, is to marry a L.C.C. clerk. Mrs. Roberts said that she has known the man she is to marry, Mr. Stewart Clark, for more than 40 years — they were friends before her marriage to Colonel Rutherford in 1902. Mr. Clark managed her former estate at Lingfleld, Surrey. Mrs. Roberts, who has an income of £5000 a year, spoke of her romance at her beautiful double-fronted creepercovered country home at Brockham Green, Betchworth, near Reigate. "All I want now is peace after these trying days," she said. "But I might as' well admit that soon— when and where I do not know —Mr. Clark and I are to marry.

"It will be a simple ceremony at a register office.

"This is no sudden romance. We have been contemplating marriage for a long time, but now is our first opportunity of really deciding something.

"For Mr. Clark's sake I would rather say little about him. We are old and very dear friends. I have known him since we were little more than children —some time before my marriage. It must be more than 40 years."