‘POULTRY YARD’ MORALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 7

‘POULTRY YARD’ MORALS

N.S.W. DIVORCE CASE EXPENSIVE MIX-UP (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 4. A tangled divorce case which lasted seven weeks, the costs totalling £BOOO to £lO,OOO, ended with the parties as they were at the beginning. Tom St. Aubins Bakewell sought a divorce from Mary . Gwendoline Bakewell, formerly Bruell, nee Cantwell on the ground of adultery with her former husband Bruell, and another. Mrs Bakewell denied' the charge, but alleged that her husband committed adultery with three other women, and she claimed a judicial separation on those grounds. The judgment traversed a strange history of marital relationships. In 1921, Mrs Bakewell, then Mrs Bruell, sought a divorce from Bruell, on the ground of adultery. The suit was undefended and a decree was granted, but the Crown intervened and the decree was rescinded because it was shown that false evidence had been given; also that at the time the petition was filed, Mrs Bruell was living in adultery .with Bakewell, her present husband. Three years later, Bruell was granted a divorce on the ground of his wife’s adultery with Bakewell, who subsequently married 1161’. Mr Justice Owen’s judgment took 90 minutes to deliver.' The case was the longest and most expensive in the New South Wales State legal records. The judge found that all the allegations of adultery on both sides were proven. jffe dismissed the suits, ordered Bakewell to pay his wife s costs.