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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7358, 10 July 1889, Page 5

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Anapplication for divorce came before Mr Justice Bhtt oa the 20th ulfc., writes the Argue London correspondent, which has some colonial interest, since Mr Phil Robinson, the well - known war correspondent, was the respondent. His wife, Sarah K. Robinson, was the petitioner, and she conducted her case for herself, with the usual result. She asked for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty, adultery and desertion. She was married in December, 1976, and had two children, a girl aged nine, and a boy aged eleven. She stated that in ISS2 Mr Robinson abandoned a position on the Daily Telegraph, which was worth £1000 a year, -and in September or October of that year she was leit with one child dying, wichout money for support. The Court found some difficulty in reconciling some of the statements made by the applicant. She made some very singular statements about her husband. Among other acts of alleged cruelty, she declared that he forced a large quantity of morphia down her throat, wnich made her very ill, and that her head bein? then affected, he put her in an asylum. He also sold all her effects, including sixteen trunks, containing her wedding presents, jewellery, and clothing. Mr Justice Butt indicated that it was hard to understand how she could have been left without means of support if she had sixteen trunks of jewellery and wedding presents in her possession, whereupon Mrs Robinson replied that she had been leEt without money to live upon. The steward and stewardess oh board the steamer Drummond Castle deposed that, in May, ltm, the respondent and a lady who is not the petitioner, travelled as in an , and wife from Lisbon for England. The Court held that the identification of MrJKobinson was not complete, and adjourned the case to enable the steward and stewardess of the Drummond Castle to be confronted with Mr Robinson, a coarse which, his solicitors offered to facilitate. (We have since learnt by cable chat Mrs Robinson was granted a judicial separation.) I