TANGLTD STORY TOLD OF MARITAL MELANGE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7084, 5 December 1929, Page 7

TANGLTD STORY TOLD OF MARITAL MELANGE

Farmyard Morals

N.S.W. DIVORCE CASE LASTS SEVEN WEEKS

HUSBAND TO PAY £IO,OOO COSTS,

.United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 4.

A tangled divorce case which lasted seven weeks, with costs totalling from £BOOO to £IO,OOO, has ended, with the parties as they were at the beginning. Tom St. Aubins Bakewell sought a divorce from Gwendoline Bakewell on the ground of adultery with licr former husband, one Brucll, and another.

Mrs. Bakewell denied the charge but alleged that her husband had committed adultery with three other women and claimed a judicial separation on those grounds. The judgment traversed a strange history of marital relationships. In 1921, Mrs. Bakewell, who was then Mrs. Bruell sought a divorce from Bruell on tho ground of adultery. The suit was* undefended, and a decree granted, but the Crown intervened and tho- decree was rescinded, because it was shown that false evidence had been given, also that at the time tho petition was filed, Mrs. Bruell was living in adultery with Bakewell, her present husband. • Three years later, Bruell was granted a divorce on the' ground of his wife’s adultery with' Bakewell, who subsequently married her. Mr. Justide Owen’s judgment took CO minutes to deliver.

The ease was tho longest and most expensive in New South Walfis State legal records. * . The judge found that all th 6 allegations of adultery on both sides had been proved, dismissed tho suits and ordered Bakewell to pay his wife’s costs.