GIRLS IN TRANCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 October 1924, Page 5

GIRLS IN TRANCES

DRAWING ROOM VISIONS. BAPTISMS IN A BATHROOM. ~ m,m ' " s DIVORCE CASE REVELATIONS. ET CABLE—PRESa ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Oct. 24,10.55 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 23. There were curious revelations of religious mania in the Divorce Court wnen Mi's Kirke, of Ascot, petitioning for a judicial separation, gave evidence that when her husband joined the Pentecostal sect her home life was disturbed by baptisms' in the bathroom and girls falling into trances in the drawing room, where they had visions from heaven. Finally her nurse girl, Martha McCarthy, came under Kirke’s influence. Martha and petitioner’s husband were cloeeted together every eveningj Kirke saying that Martha was helping him in his religious work. When the husband left home with Martha he asked the wife to come to a new home on condition that she treated Martha properly. Kirke wrote: “Had you been less offensive and more ready to believe that God’s Word means what it says, we might at least be keeping house together. Martha is not having a smooth time. She is up at 6.30 a.m., and: even washes my shirts. If I had not left you I should have passed to a better world before this.” The judge granted a necree nifli. UNDEFENDED DIVORCE. Received Oct. 24, 11 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 23. r Lady . Sholto Douglas was granted a' decree nisi from her husband, who is a brother of Lord Alfred Douglas. The case was undefended. Lady Sholto Douglas was formerly Mrs. Mossulmans, who divorced her first husband and was one of the wealthiest women in England. She inherited a big share of a fortune of eight millions left by her grandfather, George Dorrepal, a Dutch East Indian sMorchant Prince. She also shared ; a fortune of five millions left by her aunt, Madame Thurkow. The present marriage trouble began over an allowance the wife made to Sholto Douglas,