A WIFE’S CONFESSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 4

A WIFE’S CONFESSIONS

THE RATER DIVORCE CASE.

RESPONDENT IN BOX,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 23. A dramatic confession by the respondent and a renewed application for the hearing io be taken in camera were features to-day of the proceedings in the Raper divorce case. The respondent gave evidence that she adored Raper when she married him. and in order that the marriage might bo happy and that nothing might be thrown up at her afterwards she confessed to Raper that she had been intimate with two men apart from her first husband. One of these meti, who held a very high political position, bad since died, and the other was killed in the war.

Struggling with emotion and distress, the respondent continued: “I wanted to bo absolutely fair to Raper before marriage, and I never realised that such a thing would be thrown up again against me. Unfortunately I told Raper the men’s names.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.

MORBID CURIOSITY

JUDGE’S HINT UNHEEDED

LONDON, July 23. The respondent wrote down the names of the two men mentioned in her confession. Sir Edward Marshall-Hall: Would you be surprised to learn that none of the counsel on our side have ever heard the first name written down in this connection P The Respondent: I cannot help what you know, but Raper knew perfectly well. Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, referring to the ghastliness of the case and. the embarrassment of the respondent, applied to have her cross-examination held secretly. Mr Justice Hill refused, adding that he could not understand any decentminded members of the public remaininp. A few of the spectators left the court, but the majority remained.—A. and N.Z. Cable.