ILLICIT LOVE

NZ Truth, Issue 508, 13 March 1915, Page 9

ILLICIT LOVE

Wily Walters Worsted

His Graceless Treatment of Grace

t jsdsto hi 6 Loss of Lovely Mary, J.. .

(Pom {'Truth's" Christchurch Rep.)

J^fter having negotiated the various Courts at Christchurcli, m which domestic differences are considered, Mary and Charles Henry Leigh Walters were finally Heparateci by his Honor, Mr. Justice Dennjflton, m tho Divorce Court hist week. The whole trouble arose over Charles Henry playing the giddy- gout with ji young lady named Grucu Pope. Charles cut quite, a dash as a land salesman's assistant, and might still have been iloingso hart the charms of the gushing Grade not glamored him, and ultimately the Magistrate declared him the father of her illegitimate child. Then Walter's legal 60 per cent, appealed to the Supreme Court to permanently llb«rate her from her maritally versatile husband, whose misconduct with Grace Pope was utilised as the FULCRUM OF THK. APPLICATION. Alter several adjournments everything" seemed. to be m order for :i clear run, when the chief witness, Grace' Pope, being ill m hospital, an adjournment was sought and granted. ' Last week Miss Pope and the baby were present m Court, and the case hummed merrily. Petitioner was represented /by "Cosis" Eric Harper, and Lawyer Alpers did his best for the respondent. Grace said Charles .Henry nact t>een properly adjudged the father of her child m October, 1914. He defended the action, but did not appeal against the S.M's decision, - Cross-examined, Gracie reckoned ■he'd known Walters fpr many years and the' acquaintance was renewed at .her ma's house m Salisbury-street early tn December, 1913, he representing himself as a single man. A week later the misconduct occurred, witness telllng her ma tho same evening what had happened. Later, she called at Charlie's office and was put wise to the fact that lie was a married man. She then thought of flying at Walters FOR BREACH OF PROMISE, but her "Costs" roan advised her not | to do so. She wrote to Walters, telling him that if he paid! the amount of damages she had asked for In the proposed breach . of promise proceedings, toirether with other expenses incidental to the child's safo arrival, she would say no more about the matter. Grace denied having been m the day-llea abdtat June, 1913, a paragraph reiaunp to a missing heir who had boon left £ 1,000,000 by the Walters family. In f eply to another question, she said that When Walters told her that she bad been engaged to Mr. Fienhols, who used to watch the destinies of tho Christohurch Sports Club, she went to that gentleman's office, with her ma, to sea what ho had to say about it. She denied having gone with Fienhols on any occasion to see a doctor. It was not Qraco's present solicitor who advised her to drop the broach of promise proceedings. . * Graco's mother stated that Walters didn't come to the house on any business regarding tho buying or selling of a bungalow, he came acourtlng Grace. Mrs. Pope always understood that he was an unmarried man. One afternoon, while witness was cleaning the "wlndles" and Walters was seated under the spreading chestnut tree smoodging with Oracle, the latter broke the f lad newß of Charlie having popped the question. Next day the girl informed her mother that she and Walters had collaborated m ' - FLOUTING THE CONVENTIONS. It was subsequently discovered that Walters was a married man, and Mrs. Pope bailed him up outside Evans and Bull's office, whore he denied having either misconducted himself with Grace or having promised to marry her. Four weeks after her seduction Grace started a breach of promise action, but withdrew it. -Witness denied having writ* ten to Walters, asking him for £10. This closed the case for the petitioner. "Costa" Alpers Intimated that he didn't Intend to call rebutting evidence, .and Charles Honry was consequently not culled upon to face cross-oxaminu- , tion. . , His Honor: Mr. Harper, you can take ' your decree and custody of the children for your client. Mr. Harper: I'll ask for costs, your Honor. ..'."■. His Honor: Yen, tho case is ono In which I Intend to award substantial • costs. There has been, v greort. deal of delay caused by the respondent und i 'now he's not prepared to defend him-. •' nelf on oath. His defence has been a most impudent one and tho costs which 'I mean to inflict should serve to give the man a lesson. At all events it will teach him that he cannot come here find abuse the process of the Court with Impunity. The defendant .first appeared m person, and my remarks about the impudence of his defence, does not of course, apply to that set up by counsel, but to that set up t>y Walters himself. Costs will be ullowed on the highest scale, £45.