JOYRIDE AND “FIZZ”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 820, 14 November 1929, Page 1

JOYRIDE AND “FIZZ”

WIFE GROWS COLD TOWARD HUSBAND DIVORCE GRANTED The story of a married woman's midnight joy-ride with another man aDcl the drinking of a bottle of champagne was related to Mr. Justice Herdmau in the Supreme Court today, when Arthur Alan Adams (Mr. Haigll) applied for the dissolution of his marriage with Reina Muriel Adams, on the ground of adultery. Charles Burnett was cited as corespondent. The defence was withdrawn and neither the wife nor the co-respond-ent appeared. Married in May, 1927. petitioner said he and his wife lived at Mount Eden. Oil returning from a trip to Sydney iu April, he found his yvife's attitude toward him liad changed, and that she was very cold. When he called at a friend's place to take her home one night she refused to accompany him, but following a solicitor’s letter, she returned to him. On June 22 his wife informed him by telephone that she was going to the races and to a party- afterward, hut she did not return home that night. Next morning, on visiting a friend's house, his wife told him she would not come home again. He identified letters he had found addressed to liis wife, in one of which these words occurred: “I got your wire, darling. I am worrying a good deal but I hope my worries will soon be over.” A widow, Mrs. Peggy Close, stated that Mrs. Adams introduced her to Burnett, who came from Whangarei. Mrs. Adams told her that she often saw Burnett, who called at the Adams home when petitioner was absent. On June 27, witness and Mrs. Adams returned from the races in Burnett’s car and later in the evening Mrs. Adams and the co-respondent went for a drive, returning home at 1.30 a.m. Later that morning Mrs. Adams confessed to her that she had been for a joyride, had a bottle of champagne and had misconducted herself. While staying at witness's home Mrs. Adams frequently went out at night with Burnett, and confessed that she was in trouble. Andrew Kyle, a boarder at Mrs. Close's house, said that Mrs. Adams had admitted misconduct. His Honour paid there was no ad mission in the co-respondent’s letters of adultery. A decree nisi was granted, to be moved absolute in three months.