WHAT HER HUSBAND SAID.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 3

WHAT HER HUSBAND SAID.

Dr. Ferdinand Meyrick, of Kensington Court, London, husband of the late Mrs. Meyrick, gave an interview to the "Daily Mail." He. explains that his late wife's career in her latter years was the Tesult of a mad kink to make money.

"I don't want to say anything against her. She was a good-hearted soul and meant well, but she was a foolish woman," he said. "All the stories that she- worked at her night club to bring up her children are not true.

"When she left me thirteen years ago I had a magnificent place at Brighton, with four acres of land, two gardens, six servants, eight nurses, and twelve resident patients. I was earning £5000 a year, and she could buy just what she wanted at the shops. In the midst of this she started her night-club business, instead of looking after the home.

"I found she was going up to London unknown to me. I put detectives on .to the matter, and they found out what was happening. I asked her to give it up, but she refused.

"I let her go for peace sake—because I wanted to carry on my practice quietly. I had a consultation with my family, and we thought it better to let her have the children. She loved them very much—and you know what women are—it made things easier if she had the children. She had no right to them. There was no divorce or even legal separation. I was their lawful guardian.

"My children were brought up splendidly—as straight as a rush, i They have splendid manners. I "was perfectly satisfied as far as they are concerned. And don't forget that they were not all interested in my wife's night-club ventures. "When my wife left me I made her an ample allowance, and paid for the education of one of my daughters at Eoedean and one of my sons at Harrow.

"She had been a militant Suffragette in the old days. She believed in a ■woman doing everything for herself, and that is why she wanted to make a bit of money independently of me. As a younger woman she was not frivolous. She was not fond of gaiety or anything wrong. There was no personal scandal in her life at all. She did not drink much.

"The last thing she did when she left me thirteen years ago was to ask me to take £500 worth of shares in her night club. I said, 'Certainly not.' ?fight clubs and medical practice do not go well together.

"As I have said, I don't want to say anything against her—but I think it is time some of the truth was told."