A Giant as Co-respondent.

Hastings Standard, Issue 92, 12 August 1896, Page 4

A Giant as Co-respondent.

In the Divorce Court in June, Sir Francis Jeune had before him the undefended case of Ed.='n v. Eden and Mesureur. This was the petition of Morton Eden, son of the late Sir Win. Eden, for a dissolution of his marriage, on the ground of the misconduct of his wife with Henri Mesureur. Petitioner made the acquaintance of his wife isi 1892, at which time she i rai s'c.il arti->c, p* rfi nniti_' at a cafe ehantant at Boulogne. They were nnrnel it the Paddine r ton registry oflice in July, After the marriage they lived in London and at Margate. At the latter place the respondent found life dull, and asked to be allowed to return to Boulogne. He refused, but she left him and made the acquaintance of the co-respondent, who was a giant attached to a menagerie. It was with threat difficulty, Counsel said, that her address was secured for those proceedings, and when it was found respondent came to the office of her husband's solicitor. She told him that she understood very well why she was subpoenaed, and she tore up the subpoena in the office and threw the pieces in the solicitor's face.

The petitioner, a tall man, who suffers with gout, gave evidence. They lived after the marriage at the Grosvenor hotel, Pimlico, and at St Clair road, Kensington. Mine Selina Trenay, a widow, of Boulogne, and her daughter, a milliner, gave evidence through an interpreter that Henri Mesureur stayed at their house several days with the respondent. The elderly lady, on being asked if Mesureur was a giant, replied by raising her hand high above her head to indicate his height. The next witness, Mtlle. Delmar,

proved that the couple staved at another * Boulogne address. She was asked the giant's height, and replied with a smile that he ordered a bed " two metres, ten." They lived there six months. The respondent sang at the cafe chantant as " Florrie," with the co-respon-dent as " a professional giant." His Lordship granted a decree nisi with costs.