LIFE TOO DULL

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 4

LIFE TOO DULL

The story of a minister's wifo who found manse life too dull, and her infatuation for a blind soldier, was unfolded in the Divorce Court, London, when Mr Justice Horridgo granted a decree nisi to the Rev. John Birchnall Longden, a Wesleyan minister, now at Bridgend, South Wales, on the ground of his wife's misconduct with a man named Edmund John Turner, a blind soldier at St. Dunstan's. The parties were married in 1898, and there wero two children. In 1904, the petitioner said he had to complain of the conduct of his wife with men, and they ultimately separated. In 1905 he stopped his wife's allowance, as she visited the place where he was officiating as a minister. He arranged for her. relatives to support her. In 1906 he had her back at Stoke-on-Trent, but she found the place too dull and did not remain. Then thoy went to London and she went out to the Bahamas and stayed there till the death of her mother. The next he heard of her was that she was visiting blind soldiers at St. Dunstan's, where she made the acquaintance of the corespondent. It was subsequently found that the respondent and co-respondent were living together at (Solder's Green.