CLAIM TO HUSBAND’S ESTATE

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1935, Page 7

CLAIM TO HUSBAND’S ESTATE

STORY OF TWO MARRIAGES (nr CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Rec. March 16, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 16. The Equity Court is hearing a claim by a one-time famous violinist, who toured Eurone, America and New Zealand. Lydia Elizabeth Northey, aged 61, otherwise Bessie Doyle, for a share In the estate of her late husband, who died in 1933 leaving £23,000 of which £lOOO was bequeathed to a sister in England, and the remainder to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Great Britain. Mrs. Northey, who says she is tow practically destitute, married Northey at the Registrar’s Office at Auckland in 1894. He deserted her after a concert tour of the Dominion, which he managed, and later Invited her to divorce him. She obtained a divorce at North Dakota, United States, and re-marricd Robt. Mitchell in 1899. Northey met her in Paris some time later, and informed her that the marriage with Mitchell was bigamous. He asked her to leave Mitchell-which she did. since when she has always regarded Northey as her legitimate husband, although in recent years she had maintained herself by concert work and teaching music. The hearing was adjourned.