DIVORCE COURT.
A PECULIAR CASE.
BY TELEGRAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION.
AUCKLAND, Nov. 30. Elizabeth Peace, a boardinghousekeeper, gave evidence in the Divorce Court this morning. She stated that at the age of 16, in the year 1886, she married William Peace, who deserted her twelve months later. In 1890 she was informed that Peace had been killed in an accident in Dunedin. She read an account of such an accident in the newspaper. Three years later she went through the form of marriage with Peter McCabe and lived three years with him. Then he left her and went with another woman, whom he had since married. After twenty years absence William Peace turned up in 1907. In 1908 Mrs Peace obtained a divorce on the grounds of desertion. Her petition for nullity of the marriage with McCabe was granted. Jessie Catherine Wilson was granted a decree nisi against Frank Nelson, otherwise Oliver Bainbridge, a lecturer, who, she stated, married herein Auckland left her in America penniless. He treated her cruelly.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 30 November 1910, Page 7
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169DIVORCE COURT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 30 November 1910, Page 7
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