WEST END “LIFE”

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1938, Page 7

WEST END “LIFE”

MARRIAGE FOR MONEY Girl Whose Head Was Turned lAust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received May 12, 5,51 p.m.) LONDON, May 12. Mrs. Anne Mitchell, of Mayfair, brought a summons to the Court as against her husband, Paul Mitchell, for a separation order, on the grounds of his cruelty and desertion. The 1 suit was dismissed. The case was one throwing light upon a certain type of Mayfair life. One of her witnesses was Peter Jenkins. He was sentenced in connection with the recent West End jewellery robbery. The husband, Paul Mitchell, admitted in a statement as made to the “Daily Mail” that he had married his wife for her money, though he was at the time infatuated by a film actress, named Mary Carlisle, to whom he proposed over the TransAtlantic telephone on the night before he married his wife, Anne. Mrs. Mitchell inherited the sum of £15,000, he said. The amount was payable to her on her wedding day. Of the £15,000 his wife gave him £1,500. He then went abroad, and did not see his wife for four months He added that he is now living penniless with his mother, after dissipating £31,000 which he had made on the Stock Exchange. He is also under a term of probation in connection with a sentence passed on him for sharepushing. Mrs. Mitchell is only 22 years of age. She said that after having had a convent education, she had indulged in high life in the West End of London, and it had turned her head. She and her husband had agreed to marry in order to raise the money which she was to inherit on her wedding day. She had taken off the wedding ring immediately after their leaving the Registry Office, at which they were married. The father of Mrs. Mitchell said that he saw Mitchell only once, and he then told him what he thought of him.