MRS. HAWTHORNES HASH.

NZ Truth, Issue 472, 4 July 1914, Page 7

MRS. HAWTHORNES HASH.

ELLEN MAKES A MESS OF MATRIMONY. DIVORCE PROCEEDINGSjYSTCRIOUSLY STAYfb... Wedded Twite,; butter a "Wkider*^ (From "Truth's" ChrisjtchUrcb Rep.)

True- to her word Ellen blew along] to the . Magistrate's Court last "Friday j to answer a charge of bigamously marrying one George Lake, while her i legal husband, James ' Hawthorne, was i still alive. His Worship H; W. Bishop was on "the bench.' ' i Ellen looked her best m a frontispiece which, although nothing worth bursting .into verse over, easily justified its manifest embellishments. Frami^ her physiognomy was an abundance t)f raven glory topped off with a 'black velvet, upended flowerpot hot, dashed now and again with yellow. From the chin downwards, blue and black was the color scheme of the much married madam's attire. Lawyer Bob Leathern, with his "smile that won't come off," acted as her A.D.C. Jim Hawthorne told the Court he was a carpenter, plying for. a crust down Rakaia way. In 1907 he hung out' m Christchurch, '' where his blancmangey feeling for "Ellen TRIPPED HIM UP INTO MATRIMONY with her. After five years .. of it, oh July 2, 1912, to bo exact, Jim was full

j ago that you discovei-ed you were not divorced? — Yes, • • The Sub: After the proceedings m the Divorce Court didn't "you ask you? solicitor if you were divorced? — Yes. What did he say?— He said. "You're all right There's only an affidavit to come from Christchurch." He also* told me that I wouldn't have to appear* again.* ... ■ Jim went on to , say that after finding that the bottom: had been banged clean out of his lie put the. case m the hands of Lawyer Tippen,

He did, not know whether the fresh! proceedings were yet under, way. Lawyer Leatham: Was it before bis after you saw your wife m Invercargill that you first found out that yotf were not divorced? — Afterwards. Sub-Inspector McKinnon produced a) copy of the certificate of the Ue-up-be-^ tween the Hawthorns m 1907. and Frank Evans, registrar of marital contracts at Christchurch, reckoned that the FIRST AFFAIR WAS SQUARE , DINKUM. . , ■ Ellen's second ljnot was tt*<t wltii George Luke,* who signed tho . »» l .«.>'nration on the baok of the nolle. • ' - vember 22 of last year. "Costs" Lenthom; What was .:u> ,10---claration signed?— That there wus no impediment to the marriage, Mrs. Hawthorne wouldn't read the* register through beforb.sho signed, I suppose?— l make it| a practice to see that contracting parties read it over; together before they sign. Would you swear that Mrs. Haw-i thorno read the register through? — Oh, no, I Wouldn't go that far. No. Perhaps you would .be surprise ed to know that she can't^read?— She signed the. declaration, anyway. Yes. There are any number of peo-* pie who can sign their names yet can-* not read. , A civil servant with a nose, oti which there wns a most bountiful blossom, mentioned that he had his] optics glued on last November's con-< tract between Ellen and Lake whlcli was alleged . ■ . , TO BE A "SCFILtiiNTfiR." John Hop Williams, laden' with n> stupendous note book, translated soiho hieroglyphics which showed that on tli« 'afternoon of last Saint Paddy's Day he paid hln respects to EOon at Aiigus-utruet, whvro sh« wna living* with .lordle iJtke. Jn answer to tho Copper's queries Ellen said who hod gone through the 'form of murriagu with Lake on November 2a, ISU3, ami that ihb happy duo had signed the register as Ellen Day and Geocgu Lake respectively. Ellen didn't .know wherfr her former 40 per cent, was hanging"" out. but wild that she hnd tired In an application for unnalntenunce order against him: Sergt. Davy Jackson said he met her j In. Colombo-street last November when : she asked him when her husband was j going to got a divorce and ho replied that he know nothing abput the mattor — it 'wasn't m his lino. 1 . Some tlm» afterwards ■•BHon tola Davy that tehe< was going to ace Hawthorne about tho maintenance, and Davy said he reckw oned sho had no chance. "Why," aha asked tho sergeant, "ain't I KEEPING ALT/ RIGHT NOW?" Davy had replied that he believed sh© was. * ■ ■ , Lawyer Leathanj: What \vn»? thai date of lhat Interview, sorgennt? Davy: It whs Carnival week, bej cause I asked her if she knew who- ' ther there were any lmrd ca«e« knocking about tho town. Now. think again, sergount. Didn't tho accused Hoy that Hbice Hawthorne hadn't divorced her Him. was goii\g to hug him for maintenance? — Y»«x, nho might haves said that. I won't sw«ar to it, iMwyer Leaiham submitted thafr there was no case to go to v Jttry, but. (h« S.M. played four nccs and Elian, protesting -her Innocence of criminal intentlooH, was committed for trial n& the next «lttinKH of tho Suprcm©Court. Hall wns allowed.