THE NAPIER DIVORCE CASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9565, 22 October 1892, Page 2

THE NAPIER DIVORCE CASE.

(Pee United Pbes3 Association.)

Napier, October 21,

In the Divorce Court to-day the crossexamination of Mrs Joshua was continued. She admitted having lived with Joshua for four years before she married him, and was introduced to his friends and her own as his wife and was treated "by them as such. The marriage was postponed because he, being a Jew, said his marriage to a Christian would gneve his mother, who was then old, and might kill her, as two of his brothers had married Christians. He promised to marry her within a year, but put it off for the same reason. Had he not married her when he did she would have left him. Their quarrels commenced when they went to Taupo, in 1590, and his conduct to her gradually became worse. Mrs Joshua was present when Annie Tuft's letter was pieced together. Ie was the day after her final quarrel with her husband that witness became aware ©t his relationship to .Annie

Mrs Joshua's case against her husband was closed, and the defence opened. Practically the case against Miss Keep depends on the evidence cf one witness—Mrs Kemp, mother of Mrs Joshua. She was also the principal witness against Annie Tuft, but many other witcessss deposed to suspicious circumstances and familiarity between Joshua and Tuft. Mis Kemp did not mention what she alleges she saw for two years when Joshua forced a aeecl of separation with his wife on the ground of adultery with Norman Kennedy. The defence make a point of that- silence. They also deny that Mrs Kemp could have seen anyone enter Bliss Keep's room at Xaupo from the position Mrs Kemp says she occupied, and allege that when Mrs Kemp first made the attentions against; Miss Keep as the Spa she said her suspicions wera aroused by finding in Mi=s Keep's bed fluffy material from Joshua's dressing gown. In court she stated the fluff was in Joshua's bed from Miss Keep's woo Ken nightgown. Joshua in the witness box totally deni°d adultery with either women, but admitted being very intimate, though not criminally so, with Tuft. His couasei stated he would bring direct evidence of Mrs Joshua being found in improper positions with Kennedy, but the only wilne=s was Tuft.. The hearing is likely to occupy four days longer.