SHAM HOTEL DIVORCES
PERJURY IN BRITISH CASES
LONDON, October 25
“ Hotel register ” divorces were denounced by the Bishop of Fulham, Dr Batty, who suggested, as an alternative to easier divorce, more registry office marriages “ in which the parties did not accept the Christian view of matrimony.” Criticising " hotel register ” divorces, the bishop mentioned the case of a man who obtained a divorce on a signature written by his secretary in a South Coast hotel register while his employer was in Scotland. It was gross perjury, he said, but the judges knew all about such cases.
A man had merely to accompany a girl to an hotel, enter their names in the register and sleep in separate rooms. Easier divorces would jeopardise married life and proposal for granting divorces on the grounds of drunkenness or long penal servitude of either party were opposed to the Christian law of forgiveness.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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