DENNISTOUN CASE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 64, 18 March 1925, Page 7

DENNISTOUN CASE

EVIDENCE FOR DEFENCE,

(DNrtlD PailS ASiOCIAIIO*.—COPIRIQHT.)

CAUSWALUN-NEW IJALAND CABLI ASSOCIATIOM

(Received 18th March, iioon.) LONDON, 17th March.

An attack •of ■ -sciatica prevented the defendant from attending the Court, so other evidence was interposed. Marguerite Pyrronnenc, formerly the plaintiff's French maid, gave evidence that the plaintiff often described Bolin as her lover. He visited her at the bungalow. Bexhill. Witness did not see anything wrong, she was only deposing as to what the'plaintiff had told has Witness had seen both Cowans and Bolm at the plaintiff's flat in London. Ones Uiwans arrived "unexpectedly when Bolin was there. Witness, under plaintiff's instructions, took Bolin to the basement till Cowans was "got out of the way." which was^ not long. The plaintiff once said that she did not like Dennistoun ai a husband ;ehe just loved him as a brother. ■ ■

The witness once alluded to the dirtiness of plaintiff's dressing-gown.' Plaintiff explained that it was due to her putting it on the floor so that the caretaker would not hear Bolin's footsteps going out late at ■ night ■ or-early in tha morning. Plaintiff, at the Bite Hotel » Paris in 1920, told witness that she had been talking-to her husband with a VIOW to arranging a divorce, alter which she intended marrying. Bolin. Witness considered.that plaintiff and Bolin were living as man and wife during th» *tav ik Barcelona in 1921. : Puring the same visit Cowans telegraphed that he was ill, and would like to see plaintiff, but she did not go bocause she did not wish to hurt the feelings of Bolin. Cowans later angrily telegraphed, cursing her, and adding that he^was going to the other wovld, cursing her because she had been s>eartless_and deceived him. ...'■.'.. ./' r ..\.

Cross-examined, the witness declared that she was giving evidence in order to prevent plaintiff harming anyone,' as slip had harmed witness by. making terrible charges against her. She admitted that she was given a good character later. ' „..'. .. ... .. \ .". '.

The remainder of the day'was'occupied in the testimony of'fprmerinaWs, also Cowans's chauffeur, relating to the .plaintiff's...association with ...Senhouse, Bolin, and Prince- Odascalchi. In adjourning the oase, Mr. Justice M Cardie commented on the apparent impossibility of finisafiig the case this week. „