A GAIETY GIRL'S DIVORCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7763, 20 May 1896, Page 3

A GAIETY GIRL'S DIVORCE.

MARRIED IN SYDNEY IN 1892.

London, May 3

On Wednesday, Sir Francis Jeune, sepa-rator-in-chief of illmatchod couples, had before him the petition of a Mr Perry, of Sydney, who desired to be relioved of his wife on the usual grounds. Mr .e'eriry, it eeems, fell in love with Hisa Katherine Lucille Foote whilst the latter was playing in tho "Gaiety Girl" Company which visited Australia in 1892. The courtship was not prolonged unduly, and on Ootober 24th of that year, Mise Foote met her lover at St. Michael's Ohuroh, and was transformed into Mrs Perry. Tho parties resided together until December, when the tour oamo to an end, and then the lady came to England to eeo her mother, who had arrived home from I Ainerioa Mho separation lasted until ' Septomber, 1894, when, owing to the ! banking criaie, Mr Perry also came home and lived with his wife. All went well until January in the following year, when one day Terry marked a commissionaire go to his house. The uninformed man hud an arraful of confectionery, and other presents, winch he delivered aa for "Miss Foote," from Mr Gioio Oosta. Naturally Perry wanted to know from hia "wife who this queer-naniod donor was, and the lady described him vaguely aa "an old friend of the family." But she declined to show her husband Coeta's letter or her reply thereto, both of which eho throw into the firo. Lato that samo ovouing ho found her writing a letter " to her uncle in America." Having some slight doubts, Pecry intervened between thia miasivo and the post box, and ho was not gieatly surprised to find the uucle'o name wan " Gimo Oouta, Kaq.," nor thet the letter only bore a penny stamp Nor was he particularly flattered when he discovered tho following pnasago iv the amorous note: —"My unoie, a dcoadful man, was hero when your presorts arrived. How beastly hi 3 turning up whea wa had armnged everything so weil Oceans of lovo from your loving Bobe." After this, Mr Perry declined to live with his wife, and paid an early vitdt io Mr Uouttt. Tho latter acknowledged that ho had committed adultery with Mrs Perry, but in palliation of the offouco swore that he did not know aho v/ub mitmed. Kvidenoe establishing the unfaithfulness of tho "Giiioty Uiri " having been given, the president grunted tho ueuui daoreo nisi j Some question as to tho validity of tho Bydnoy marriage appears to have arisen duricg the trial, for bir Francis Jeuuc, in granting the deureo, added that iv hit) opinion tho law of ilingland must be presumed to bo in force in Kew Zealand, that country being Q settled colony, and that uiileaa tho contrary wits shown ho should presume that a mamago according to the rules of the Church of Mugliuid was v valid uiiirriaga iv that colony.