PLAYWRIGHT’S MARRIAGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7978, 8 December 1911, Page 5

PLAYWRIGHT’S MARRIAGE

WIPE SUES FOR RESTITUTION 01' CONJUGAL BIGHTS.

FROM OUB 3PECIAI, CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, October, 26. Refusal to comply with his wife’s request to return resulted in Mr Max Bertram Stepgen Montesole. playwright and theatrical manager, now in New Zealand, being respondent to a suit in which Ms wife, Mrs Muriel Lloyd Montesole, asked for a decree of restitution of coniugal rights. No defence was put in. Mr Bayford, who appeared for petitioner, explained that she was married in December, 1908, at St. Mary Abbott s, Kensington. Her husband was a good deal away on tour, and early this year he made the acquaintance of a young married woman. His wife heard of this and complained, but in May he told her he was going away with the girl and left the house. Petitioner met him subsequently and asked him to come hack to her, but he refused. She then wrote to him:

Dearest,—This is upsetting me very much. Will you come back to mo and let ns live our lives together again? I dp not mind about not having even a penny if you will come back. Let me have a little letter tonight or to-morrow.—Kiddie. To that her husband replied: Dear Muriel.—You ask me to return to yon. It’s useless. I do not intend to. return. —Max.

His lordship ordered a, decree of restitution, to be complied with within three month’s. The order was made on Friday, October 13th, and as news thereof is not likely to reach the husband in New Zealand for a matter of five or six weeks. Max will have to hurry up if he wants to avoid being guilty of "contempt of court.”