DIVORCE ACTION
TELL-TALE PINE NEEDLES. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 18. In asking for a dissolution of her marriage at the Supreme Court to-day, a young woman named Alice Maud Mary Ker, alleged that she first suspected her husband, Robert Henry Ker, of adultery when she noticed pine needles in his hair. In evidence she said her husband had threatened to kill her and himself with chloroform. Cross-examined she said she went away because she did not want to interfere with him if he did take poison. Edith Thomas, Private Detective, said she saw Ker lying with an unknown woman on a reserve one evening. He picked up a black kitten. “Evidently it 'did not bring him much luck,” observed Judge MacGregor.
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Southland Times, Issue 19174, 19 February 1924, Page 5
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123DIVORCE ACTION Southland Times, Issue 19174, 19 February 1924, Page 5
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