JUDGE SORRY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10829, 30 March 1932, Page 4

JUDGE SORRY.

HUSBAND HUMBUGGED BY AVIFE AND “LADIES’ MAN.” London, March 12. In rejecting a husband’s petition for divorce to-day, Lord Merrivale said that apparently the wife had never intended to commit adultery, but had humbugged her husband into the belief that it had occurred, in order to allow each other to make a new departure and start afresh. Harold de Vahl Rubin, 33 a pearldealer who returned from Australia last year, charged his ilfi-year-old wife; Marceilie Yvonne, with misconduct with Thomas Twidcll, a young liighgate schoolmaster. The parties were married at the Hampstead Synagogue in 1925 and had pno child. Rubin said that at first they were happy, but his wife’s attitude changed last year.

Lord Merrivale agreed that Rubin had bden abominably used, and as the result of the relationship between his wife and Twidell had been left in a shocking situation, with his mind torn by doubt of her fidelity..

Twidell, who apparently was a ladies’ man, a student, and a dilettante, came on the scene in 1930. He and Mrs Rubin exchanged kisses and letters abounding in banalities, Rubin attempted to effect a reconciliation, but his wife would not agree to “love, honour and obey,’’ and continued to write to Twidell, though he agreed not to see her so often.