AMERICAN DIVORCE SUIT

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 13

AMERICAN DIVORCE SUIT

SYDNEY IT.ADEK ONE OF PARTIES. By Telegraph— Assn.—Copyright. Received July 19, 7 p.m. Sydney, July 19. Mrs. Jones, tlxe respondent in a forthcoming sensational divorce suit to be heard at Reno, U.S.A., is stated to be tho daughter of Jacob Multrus, of Waiwera, and is well-known in Sydney and Auckland. She married Mr. Jones at Hemnera in 1917. The latter is managing director of one of Sydney’s largest department stores. Received July 19, 8.5 p.m. New York, July 19. A.t Reno the Jones divorce case ended this afternoon with practically all tho testimony completed and argument is set down for to-morrow. The case had made unexpected duo to the fact that a jury was eliminated at the last moment and Mrs. Jones did not personally testify. ' Mr. Jones was on the witness stand for cross-examination all day. He said he gave his wife an additional 25,000 shares in the stock of David Jones, Ltd., with the understanding that he was to be a free man and that she consented to the alleged adultery, but his wife’s deposition asserted she neither connived nor forgave.