TWICE DIVORCED BY THE SAME WIFE

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 2

TWICE DIVORCED BY THE SAME WIFE

THE JUDGE'S HOPE. Mrs Elizabeth Louisa Busby, of Staunton road, Wimbledon, in tho Divorce Uour-t for the second time, obtained a decree nisi against her husband, Mr Edward David Kent Busby, a solicitor in the city. She was alleging his cruelty and misconduot, and he did not defend. Mrs Busby, said Mr Geoffrey Tyndate, first married tho respondent in 189b, and eISj divorced him in 1916. By tho first marriage sho had a boy, who was now 19 yeare of age. During "the latter period of the first married Hfo he treated his wife with gref.t unhindnsES, and iu June, 1915, she obtained a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights against h'ira, and on May 3, 1916, Mr Just ; .:o Shearman grunted her a, decree nki on the grounds of his statutory desertion and misconduct. That decree was made absolute in November of the same year. Very unfortunately, said counsel, owing to the persuasion of her father (Mr Srewer) and her son, sho remarried the respondent on December 22, 1917. He was a man of extraordinary irritability, and when ho bccamo passionate he would strike her and anybody else. BEDROOM RIPLE AND BAYONET. From January, 1918, until March, 1913, said counsel, he kept a rifle, with bayonet attached, in his bedroom. The rifle wa3 loaded. The respondent was always having violent scenes with his wife, usiug 'threatening language to her, striking: har, and throwins her out of the room In tho presence of other people. This terrified her so much that {die was afraid ffho would lose her reason. She consulted a dootor. Iu Maroh the respondent left his home, and it was alleged that he was guilty of mir-conduofc at an holel in London in April last. THROWN OUT OF A ROOM, Mrs Busby, giving evidence, said that when she complained to her husband that his conduct was making her ill, he told hotto "go to the Devil." In March i'ho wrote to Mr Martin, a solicitor, eaymc she wished to consult him. He came to the house at Wimbledon, and when her husband found him there he became very angry. "Ho took hold of mo and threw me out of the room," said the petitioner. She described her husband as " very rough and very strong." Mr Brewer, tho father of the petitioner, corroborated as to the cruelty, and told how on two occasions the respondent ai-eauked him. Evidence having been given of the misconduct at an hotel in London, Mr .Tustico Coleridge -granted a decree nisi, observing: " I hope they won't remarry-" (Laughter.) Mr Tyndale (counsel): I shall certainly advise them not -to. (Laughter.)