"BOUND TO BE A SMASH"

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 7

"BOUND TO BE A SMASH"

CHEYLESMORE DIVORCE CASE

HUSBAND JS EVIDENCE,

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, Ist December. Giving evidence during the hearing of his wife's petition for a divorce, Lord Cheylesmore said ho first met his wife through a friend. He telephoned and asked her to tea. They had not met previously. Cheylesmore sought to show that owing to the conditions of life in Canada his wife's mind was weakened. She also became much under the influence, of her mother. He described the house in which they lived as "a good bungalow, as good as anything out West." He said he had chosen Canada as his future home, and he was returning there immediately. Counsel quoted from a letter written by Cheylesmore to a friend in England, saying, "Life with her is impossible. Sooner or later there is bound to be a smash." A remarkable feature of the evidence of Lord Cheylesmore's mother was a statement to the effect that she . had heard of a plot, in which the wife was involved, to produce a child by someone else, because she could not have one by her husband. SEe had never taxed the wife -with this,1 though the witness had grounds for believing it. Witness denied that she interfered between her son and daughter-in-law, but was always kind and considerate to the wife. The hearing was adjourned.

'Both husband and wife are petitioning for divorce, the husband in Canada and the wife in England. The present action is to establish the husband's domicile. The wife was formerly an Australian chorus girl.