WILLI!: AND WINNIE

NZ Truth, Issue 534, 11 September 1915, Page 2

WILLI!: AND WINNIE

Gordon Hutchison's Gordian Knot

Severed by the Divorce Judge

A Journalist Who Deserted His Wife

As thero was nothing much doing m the Supreme Court. Wellington, on Tuesday last, his Honor Mr. Justice Hosking filled m the hiatus by severing the matrimonial connection existbetween William Gordon Hutchinson, a once well-known Auckland journalist, and his sweeter throe-quarters. Tho petitioner, nee Mabel Carrington Booth, was born at Carterton, and is resident m that uninteresting little I totora town at the time of the publli cation of this issue. On January 7, 1902, the glad Gordon waltzed the charming Mabel off to Christ Church, Paddington, London, and PADDED UP THE AISLE to which tho Reverend J. Craggs quickly extracted the two, thoreby reducing them to the cipher 1. Then the man turned the handle and j the organ played the bedding-down march, and all things seemed like a | chrysanthemum garden. The honey moon was engineered at Brighton, at which toney watering-place Mabel and Willie swore to be all m all to each othor till death should say, "Ow, got oft me fut." Then Johannesburg held them for the space of one year and nine months. Next they pitched their moving tent m God's Own Country. Willie, however, "failed to provide" and, under an agreement, Mabel sailed back to the Old Cold Country where she resided with Willies "monomer." lt was on Juno 24, 1908, that Mabel did the boomerang act to Hold Hingland. She stayed with ma Hutchinson for a year and then dwelt m other parts until, October, 1914. During the period of their married life they had, on two occasions, told Salrey Gamp to get herself ready as soon as she felt "dlspoged," and assist with the birth statistics. Mabel, however, got TIRED OF THE SEPARATED SYSTEM of matrimony, and wrote a winning letter to the gay Gordon, begging to bo taken back into the family nest. But the Willie wagtail didn't seem to havo any nests handy. He was too busy slapping up copy and correcting proofs for the fourth -estaters of Noo Zee to attend to such matters. His heart was not won by the epistle, however. He had touched the heart of a sweet little photographer's retoucher, named Winnie Goddanl, who.ie winning ways evidently appealed to Willie. According lo the petition of the poor deserted Mabel, they (wilful Willie and the winsome Winnie) had commenced the newyear well by committing adultery on January 1. 1*912. ail<l on various other dates when they were not too busy with other things up till September 1. of that yens*. This naughtiness commenced at Devonport. Auckland, and continued up to the Inst date mentlon°Cl WHEN WINNIE AND WILLIE deckled to do all the re-touching and writing tbat might be necessary to their joint existences In Australia, for, on September oneth they Milled to the

land of the Golden Fleas, where Willi© iB said to be concocting copy for the great Horstrallan horgans. Mr. A. Gray, K.C., assisted by Mr, D. R. Hoggard, manipulated the dissolution, thus showing that it takes two lawyers to undo one parson's work. ! His Honor made a decree nisi to be ' made absolute iv four months, petitioner to be granted Interim custody of the olive branches, Costs were reckoned to be worth £26 with. witnesses* expenses and disbursements which will 'require a few sides of copy writing to pacify, and God only knows how much retouching.