DIVORCE CASES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3615, 26 June 1923, Page 31

DIVORCE CASES.

LONDON. June 16 A remarkable story was unfolded in the Divorce Court on the application of Engineer-commander Campbell for a divorce from Mrs Marie Campbell, on the grounds of misconduct with Baron Treuscii von Brandenfels, a German aristocrat. It was alleged that the respondent bigamously married the fc-aron in Germany in 1915. She admitted a bigamous marriage, but denied misconduct. She married Lieutenant-commander Campbell at The Hague in 1909. She obtained a divorce in Holland in 1913, though counsel claimed it was illegal because she was not domiciled in Holland. She went to Germany in August, 1914, and married the baron, obtaining a divorce in 1918, though the baron died the day before tho decree was made. She returned to Eng land in September, 1919, and wanted Campbell to remarry her. She obtained an annulment of her own Dutch decree for that purpose. She wrote a letter to the petitioner stating: “You call marriage what is put on paper. To me marriage is only what one feels oneself. We have only to take scraps of paper into

consideration for tile sake of others, possibly children.” Respondent’s counsel said she was charged as being a spy in Germany. The ba-roni threatened to have her executed unless she consented to marry him. She did so, though they had never cohabited. The case Inis been adjourned. BERLIN, June 18. Baroness Von Kuhlman (who divorced an English husband, the Hon. John Mitford, in Germany, and married Von Kuhlman) has obtained a divorce from the latter, and is engaged to marry Baron Rudolf Goldschmidt Rothschild.