BURNED HIS WIFE’S CLOTHES.
A WOMAN’S ORDEAL, A wife’s futile efforts to reform her husband were described during the hearing of a divorce suit brought before Mr Justice Swift. Mrs Lillian Victoria Baird-Doughis, of Loudon, sought the dissolution of her marriage on the. ground of the misconduct o f her husband, Archibald Sholto Donald Baird-Douglas. The charge was not denied. Mrs Baird-Douglas said the marriage took place in Juno. 1319. Her husband gave way to intemperance and treated her with groat cruelty, assaulting her " with slicks and things of that kind.” While, they were in Switzerland he took away her passport so that she could not get away from him. Sho tried to reform him, and in April, 1931, she obtained work with the British Committee engaged in relief work in Warsaw. where her husband joined her. Owing to his cruelty, she was obliged to leave him in OctolxT, 1923. Mr Cotes-Breedy: I think there was a big quarrel ; ho burned vour clothes and tried to noison you?—He did. Evidence as to Captain Baird-Douglas's misconduct in Warsaw was road, and a decree nisi, with costs, granted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 17
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