DIVORCE COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3004, 16 December 1896, Page 1

DIVORCE COURT.

OSMERS V. OSMERS. This was a case in which the petitioner, John Oemers, a constable stationed at Coromandel, sued for divorce from hia wife, Mary Oemers, on the grounds of her misconduct with a man namod Webber at Greymouth. Mr Wilford appeared for the petitioner. The respondent was unrepresented. John Osmers deposed that his wife had loft him and gone to live with Webber, who kept a hotel in -Greymouth. She wrote and told him that sho would not bo true to him any longer. Ho had afterwards met her in Greymouth, and she told him that sho was living with Webber, and was quite happy. She was a violent woman and drank heavily. He had, however, always been good to her. Ellen )Vhitmoro, employed at Dudley's Hotel, deposed that she had known the petitiener and his wife while sho (witness) was a servant at Webber's. Mrs Gamers came there ostensibly to nurse Webber’s daughter. She and Webber used to go to Keefton together, and stay all night. Sho treated Webber’s children if they were her own. Witness and Miss Webber frequently heard footsteps at night passing between Mrs Osmer’s and Webber’s rooms. Webber afterwards sold out of the hotel, and built a four - roomed cottage where ho and Mrs Gamers went to live after leaving the hotel. Miss Webber showed witness a secret door inside this cottage between Webber’s room and Mrs Osmer’s, the door was concealed behind two wardrobes, one on each side of the wall.

His Honor granted a decree nisi, the decree to bo made absolute after a period of three months, With" 'costs .£35 against the co-respondent.