SOCIETY DIVORCE CASE

Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 5

SOCIETY DIVORCE CASE

THE RARER SUIT .WIFE GIVES EVIDENCE. Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 22. In the action in which Alfred Baldwin Kaper, a former member _of the Llouso of Commons, is petitioning for divorce on the ground of misconduct, Mrs Rapor when giving evidence displayed much emotion and distress. b r hc said that her Arst marriage was a most trying experience. S?ie knew Raper for two and a-half years before their marriage. lie proposed several limes. The respondent, denying certain pro-marriage incidents which wore mentioned by her husband, said: ‘‘Rapor gave me to believe that lie was not that sort of man. Ho always made me believe that lie was devoted to me, and would never marry a woman with whom he had previously lived.” -Sir Ellis Hurnc-WilJiams was putting detailed questions concerning the charges against ilapcr, but Sir Edward Marshall-Hall protested that if this were continued lie would have to apply for the examination and cross-examina-tion to he. taken in camera

The respondent gave evidence I bat Paper, during the honeymoon, drank brandy all the way from Basle, where he scorned to lie very drunk. She managed to get a porter to help him from the train when they got to Paris. When she went out for a. breath of air Paper hit her in tho taco and accused her of seeing some man. lie seemed always thoroughly bored with her because she. refused to agree to his wishes, but ho made an unnatural display of kissing and affection in public. The bearing was adjourned.—A. and N.Z. Cable.