DIVORCE COURT INCIDENT
"What is your object in Winging these proceedings!" asked his Honour Mr. Justice MacCregor of Frederick Goldsmith, wlio was petitioning for restitution of conjugal rights by his wife, Teresa Goldsmith. "I want a divorce," replied petitioner, qualifying that statement by explaining that he either wanted his wife back or wished to bo free. "I am a young man," he said, "and I may want to marry again." "There is no ono else you wish to marry now?" queried petitioner's counsel (Mr. M'Grath). "No," was the reply. It was stated that petitioner and his wife had been happy enough until the influence of her people had brought her to the belief that, beinij a divorced woman when she married petitioner, she was now committing adultery in living with him. His Honour trull,; a little time U> consider Hie slate nf I'lin petitioner's renl mind in Mip mnttor, but eventually made un order for restitution within 'six weeks, remarking tha.t ht ho[isd i,t would be complied with,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 30, 4 August 1925, Page 7
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168DIVORCE COURT INCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 30, 4 August 1925, Page 7
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