DIVORCED WITHOUT KNOWING IT

Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 5

DIVORCED WITHOUT KNOWING IT

The Paris correspondent of the Loudon 'Telegraph' recalls the. case of the eorntessex who woke up one me.rning to hud that she had been divorced for throe months without her knowledge, and that her husband, whoso guests she had received at dinner tho night before, was on the point of marrying another and. vcrv well dowered lady. Now. from Avignon, comes a similar story, but with the ditl'eronce that in this case the husband was the victim. Ten years a.go an employee named Joseph Castcllani married a' Mile Hcleue Besancou. The young wife was something of a coquette, and spent a good deal of money on clothes. Tho couple, however, lived very happilv together. .V few clays ago M. Castellani'thought lie had reason to complain of the freedom allowed by his wife to their only child, a little girl of nine. ' Madame Ca'sioikmi took his rebuke in very bad pari, and there was a quarrel, in tile cour-e of which the lady told her astounded husband that she was no longer his wife—thai, in fact, a year before a decree of divorce had been pro nounced iu her favor by the Tribunal of Avignon, giving her the custody of the child. Her husband ran oil to the Maine to verify this extraordinary statement. Thero .he found everything in order—citations, judgments, and the.'Yest, which had been served at his domicile by an oilicial and taken back again to tin- Mairie when, as always, he was bound to be out; for M. Custellani's bii.-inesi. as his wife was well aware, kept, him ah-av.t from his horn'from 6in the morning to P, ;it nigh'. '}.]. Castcllani intends to ,:ppe.il for a revh.ion of the case.