ACTION FOR DIVORCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19503, 6 December 1926, Page 11

ACTION FOR DIVORCE.

LADY CHEYLESMORE'S CASE. COURT RESERVES JUDGMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.35 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 4. The hearing of the case in which Lady Cheylesmore, formerly Miss Nora Mary Parker, of Tasmania, is petitioning for a divorce from her husband, the fourth baron, whom she married in 1914 when she was a chorus girl, was continued today. Lady Cheylesmore was greatly distressed and sobbed bitterly during a close examination. She said her husband and his brother had been dreadfully drunk even while their mother was in Canada. The mother was never cross about anything they did. Both were spoiled. Witness quoted extracts from her husband's diary. Among these was the following:—"Had a hectic evening. Much the worse for wear. Home with, two bottles of fizz and two of port. Very tight. Awfully sorry for Nora." Counsel for petitioner, in his address, pointed out that some member of Lord Cheylesmore's family had perpetrated a hostile act toward the wife as far back as 1919, by sending to Tasmania for her birth certificate. Surely, he said, Lady Cheylesmore's mother-in-law must have struck the Court as being a masterful woman, capable of being sweetly unkind. Judgment was reserved.