COSTLY DIVORCE SUIT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 20

COSTLY DIVORCE SUIT

f". FINANCIER AND WIFE '.' ..' .Some months ago a law was passed forbidding the ; reporting-ofJ. diyq_ree cases in the Press (states the London Correspondent of the Melbourne- "Ar--gus"). The effect of that legislation is being observed" for the first time ,ih a. ouiit in which Sir Max Bonn and Xacly Bonn aro. suing each other for diWce. Already £25,0.00: lias bcc)i Bjij&t upon law costs, and .the suit is cniljr half heard. Lady Bonn's action against her husband lias been dismissed, but the husband's accusations against !his*wife have still to be investigated. Sir* Max Bonn is a'financier, who marlied in 1920, and lived on the best terifls -With: his wife until, 1925. ' Then :' a breach occurred. Judging by Lord Merivale'a sum-niftg-up of the first part of the case, the evidence was sensational. Neither 6ida: spared expense in procuring witnesses. Charges of misconduct against Sir,? Max Bonn were based upon reports frqni Paris, which the jury refused to accept at face value. The Court has now* to decide whether the introduction of:-jsvich evidence justifies Lady Bonn in (being condemned in costs for her tinsuccessful action. Lady Bonn has; a marriage settlement of £20,000 and jewels valued' at £17,000, and Sir Max Bonn, therefore, claims.that she should pay his till of costs on the claim defiidad, in his favour. The second part oif-'Jlie case Will be heard,; in October. S^f/.'ifeonald Waterhouse is piio of .jjlfe'lfeoTesgoßdents. Ho was principal private eeiiietary to three "Prime Ministers—Mr. Bonar Law, -Mr: Mac Donald, and Mr. ffiaTJwin. He recently abandonerl~pbliitam tor business.