MET IN HUNTING FIELD.

Mataura Ensign, 30 January 1912, Page 5

MET IN HUNTING FIELD.

ELOPEMENT SEQUEL.

A decree nisi with costs was granted in the Divorce Court in London last month by Mr Justice Bargrave J)ean« to Mr Owen Talbot Price, of Wfstwood Croocombe, Taunton, solicitor, on account of the misconduct of his wife, Mrs Marion Price, with Mr Joseph Hewlett Brooke. The suit was undefended.

I Counsel: For the petitioner, Mr Bar'i.ard, K.C., and Mr W. 0. Willis; for the respondent, Mr F. E. Smith, K.C., and Mr Jolly; for the co-respondent, Sir F. Low, K.C., and Mr Harrington Ward. Mr Barnard said a claim lor damageshad been withdrawn. The lady had u large fortune and had expressed her intention of executing a power of appoint in favr of the only child of the 'arriage. The parties were married on September '27, J5)00, at St. Nicholas's Church, Shcpperton. They lived at Lyndhurst and Hrochonhurst in Hampshire. The onlv child was born in 1901. At the ei>i of IW7 Mr and Mrs Talbot Price became acquainted with the corespondent, who had come to reside in. the district. They first met in th«i hunting-field. On September 27, ISM)?, Mrs Price went to stay with friends in the neighborhood of Taunton. Her husband also was to have come down there, but Mrs Price wrote a letter putting him off and suggesting that he would be better hunting at home. Wife's Farewell Letter. On September •30 Mr Price received the following letter:— Dear Owen,—You must not ex|x«ct to see me any more. Of, course, 1 hav« iK'haved very badly indeed, but 1 have never cared for you as much as I ought to have done, and now 1 find I can car** for someone, else. I am going away, and it will be kindest if you do not try to follow me. 1 do not think you would be able to lind me.

This has not happened because of tho trouble a fortnight ago, but it was bound to come, and it really is all my fault. I would much rather you did not write, as nothing can make any difference now.

I Jiavo seen and will arrange everything through Mr Arthur Newton, 23 Groat Marlborough Street. If you really care for me it will lw kindest to divorce me as .soon as you ran.

MARION

Inquiries were made at the Savoy Hotel and in Paris. To that city* Mr Price went and tried to induce his wiio to come back. She refused to see him.

Mr Price, in the course of his evidence stated that his wife, was daughter of' the late Mr Peter Robinson and had CIO,OOO a year. At the time of his marriage ho was a solicitor, and gav<> up practice. When he went to th« hotel in Paris lie sent up his card askhis wife to see him. Her reply was "Certainlv not." •i would take her back now it she came back," said the petitioner. Evidence was given that Mrs Piicn and the co-rosp'mdenet were together at the Savoy Hotel and the Elysee Palace Hotel. . . His Lordship granted a decree nisi made an order lor costs against both the respondent and co-respondent, and gave. Mr Price the custody of the child.