SUIT FOR DIVORCE
THE CHEYLESMOEE CASE. HUSBAND’S DRINKING HABITS. (Freu Association—B? Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 4. (Received Dec. 5, at 5.5 p.m.) Lady Cheylesmore was greatly distressed and sobbed bitterly during the close of her examination. She said that her husband and his brother had been dreadfully drunk even while their mother was in Canada. The mother was never cross about anything they did, and both were spoilt. She quoted extracts from her husband’s diary “Had a hectic evening. Much the worse for wear. Home with two bottles of fizz and two of port. Very tight. Awfully sorry for Norah.” Counsel, in his address, pointed out that somebody of Lord Cheylesmore’s family had perpetrated a hostile act towards his wife as far back as 1919 by sending to Tasmania for her birth certificate. Surely the mother-in-law must have struck the court as being a masterful woman capable of being sweetly unkind. Judgment was reserved. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 9
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157SUIT FOR DIVORCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 9
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