AN EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland,lBth November.

Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 271, 19 November 1880, Page 2

AN EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, lBth November.

In the divorce case, Hedley v. Hedley and Anderson, co-respondent, to be heard at Wellington on the 26th, the evidence of Auckland witnesses in the case will be taken at the Supreme Court here, to prevent tho necessity for their going to Wellington. The following details have transpired : — About eighteen months ago Hedley, his wife and family, and Anderson, proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, arrived here from England together, where they had been intimately acquainted. Mr. and Mrs. Hedley had been ten years married, and had five children. After the purchase of the Metropolitan Hotel by Anderson, Hedley's family went to reside there, and Mrs. Hedley acted as his housekeeper. Anderson went to the Hot Springs, but a letter found in a drawer at the hotel, and other circumstances, led Hedley to remove his family to ParnelL Seeing Anderson subsequently in the vicinity of his new residence, Medley left with his wife and family for Christchurch, and there, from interviews with his wife, Hedley became convinced that matters were not satisfactory, and she suddenly left for Auckland, taking her children with her. It is alleged Anderson supplied her with the passage money. Hedley arrived here on the 9th, and being unable to obtain an interview with his wife disguised him3elf and penetrated into the hotel. He was, however, recognised by the barman, a fellow passenger from England, whom it is said he threatened with a revolver if he did not disclose the whereabouts of Anderson and Mra. Hedley. During the altercation Mrs. Hedley, hearing the noise, got away by another door with her children ; and Anderson, notwithstanding Hedley's careful s arch, got clean away also. Hedley invoked the aid of the police, who sent a message to Anderson to disclose the whereabouts of Mrs. Hedley and her children. Anderson replied declaring hi 3 ignorance, and Kedl9y then asked that Anderson and Mra. Hedley should come to the police station for an interview in the presence of the police, but the request was declined. Hedley, finding his efforts useless, left in the Eotoraa for Chriatchurch. Two hours after the steamer left, the missing lady, who could not be found, was seen in Queen-street in company with Anderson.

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