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NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 9

Richard Joseph Keogh against Eileen i Francis May Keogh. Joseph Skinner was ,"ei tea as the co-respondent, .According fo^the petitioner, the parties were married m March, 1925. There were no children and they sepa- • rated m, November, 1926, under, an agreement. The petitioner had paid maintenance money regularly until last j July- . . j , The reason for cessation of maintenance payments, he said, ■was" because of a mature familiarity between his wife and the co-resppndent, Skinner. Petitioner followed them to the Duke Street gardens one "night and had some words with Skinner. The respondent's own^ mother, Mrs. Therese Loughrey, gave evidence to the effect that after, the separation her daughter stayed with her. In August the respondent said she was going to a dance with Skinner. Sho attended the N dance, but did not put m an appearance until noon the following day. Her excuae was that she had gone to a party later and found it too late to get home. Subsequently, however, she admitted that she had been with Skinner. ' Just after this admission, she left her mother's house. Henry "Walter Winter, a bailiff;, said ] Jie had interviewed the co-respondent m September and although he was reticent about speaking m fr.ont of Keogh, he made an appointment with witness and eventually admitted that he had stayed the night at a city hotel with the respondent. \ His honor asked if more evidence could not be secured. Mere admissions made to a woman who was the mother of the respondent and to a paid private detective were npt satisfactory. "Surely/ he said, "you can get some more evidence. Otherwise, the case, like any other such case, may be fictitious . . . .an illusive divorce . . ,'.' It only meant that a party could say: ' '1 admit that I committed misconduct" and the whole thing was illusive. However, a solicitor's cle,rk deposed to perusing the hotel register relating to the night 1n question. There w.ere a "Mr. and Mrs. Skinner" there. A decree nisi was granted, costs being one of the joys reserved for th© co-respondent,- Skinner.