WIFE'S APPEAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15263, 29 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

WIFE'S APPEAL.

DIVORCE COURT SEQUEL.

Ik the Divorce Court recently, Mr. Justice Bargrave Deaue granted a decree of restitution of conjugal rights to Mrs. Florence May Pope, who told the court that her house party, at the Lizard, had been broken up because of her husband's behaviour with one of the lady visitors. Mr. Priestly, K.C., said the petitioner was married at St. Michael's, Abingdon, in November, 1903, to Mr. Reginald Pope, Subsequently they went to live at Marlbarough Road* St. John's Wood. Last summer they went to the Lizard, v where they gave a house party. Mr. Pope compromised himself with one of the* party, and the lady left the next day. Subsequently he left his wife and wrote to her on October 3 stating : " After the confession I have made to you that I love another lady, you will agree with me it is impossible to come back to you " Mrs. Pope replied begging him to return, adding: *' Now that you haw done what you have threatened, and have really gone, perhaps you are able to think- things over more clearly. . . . You have wronged me very much. Won't you come back arid try to forget everything It is our whole life, you see, and surely after all these years we might start again. Come back, dear, and I will not refer to anything." , ' t , . Mr Pope answered, that, by saying it would be a "hopeless experiment for them to try and patch up the old arrangement." It was wiser, he said, that they, should each go their own way; Mrs. Pope told : the . court she had brought this suit give bey JmsbagcJ a M fihftiio© to return