TELL-TALE LETTERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4473, 14 February 1917, Page 7

TELL-TALE LETTERS.

WIUTTEN IN CYPHER. In tlio Court of Session in London, Lord Dewar heard evidence in an action of divorce brought by Lucy Evangeliuo Hall, or Few, against Henr v William Few, late of the Indian Telegraph Service. The marriage, said the plaintiff, took place in 190 S, and two years later the respondent went to India, returning in 1913. Their married life was napppy until 1915, when her suspicion was aroused by her husband’s conduct with a young girl who was employed in Dundee. The wife visited the girl’s lodgings, and, with the landlady's permission, examined her room. There she discovered a number of letters, which were submitted in court,written by the husband to the girl. The husband s letters were written in cypher, and above the cypher characters was a pencilled translation by the girl. A woman who had been in the wife’s service as a cook said that when her mistress was away from home the girl whistled to the respondent, and he went out and spoke to her in the garden. Lord Dewar granted a decree of divorce, and in the circumstances agreed to recommend to the Indian Government that the expenses should be deducted from the respondent’s pension if that were possible.