DIVORCE CASE LADDERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 14

DIVORCE CASE LADDERS

"FANTASTIC BUSINESS"

LONDON, July 2U.

Strong criticism of '' t.iis fantastic business of putting up ladders aguiiib. the bedroom window" was m:ule b.. Mr. Justice 'Swift yesterday du.in,, the hearing of a divorce case at BiiLi jngham Assizes. A decree nisi was granted to- Free erick Albert Houghton, of Hushmort road, Hall Green, Birmingham, win alleged that his wife stayed at Sellj Park, Birmingham, with the ■ corespondent, Stanley Hobson Htfrd.s Houghton and a private 'inquiry agent gave evidence. During the hearing Mr. Justic. Swift remarked that the light wa. turned otf is at 12 o'clock at'tne Selh Park house, and the curtains drawn leaving a gap so that anybody eouic .•see. Then somebody fetched a laddej at 3 o'clock in the morning and went up it. .

On being told thai two ladders wen uaod and that four people kept oftservation, the judge said: "A reguiai party—two ladders, men hurrying about carrying them, and then running up them." When counsel for Houghton asked for costs the judge replied: "Certainly not. Not one farthing costs. I thoroughly disapprove of the petitioner and his inquiry agent."