DRAMATIC CONFESSION.
IN PAPER DIVORCE. RESPONDENT’S STORY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received July 24, 2.30 p.m. LONDON, July 23. A dramatic confession by the respondent and a renewed application for an in camera hearing were features of today’s proceedings in the Rapier divorce case. Respondent, Mrs Raper, gave evidence that she adored Raper when she married him, and in order that the marriage might be happy and nothing be thrown up at her -afterwards, she confessed to Raper that she had been intimate with two men apart from her first husband. One man, who bad held a very high political position had since died, and,the other man was killed in the war. Struggling with emotion and distress, respondent continued: ‘‘l wanted to be absolutely fair to Mr Raper before marriage and never realised that such a thing would be thrown up against me again. Unfortunately I told Mr Raper the men’s names. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 July 1925, Page 9
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