THE DENNISTOUN CASE.
WIFE’S STORY RIDICULED. IMPETUOUS AND PLEASURE LOVING. (Received 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 11.—Mr Birkett said Dennistoun denied making any promise or agreement. Mrs Dennistoun admitted misconduct with Cowans and Bolin and also was an expectant mother early in 1921. Could they imagine Dennistoun agreeing to her marrying Bolin and also promising to support her? Plaintiff’s dramatic declaration that there was a cold, calculating bargain whereby she paid the price of tier husband’s preferment would be utterly denied. It was precious poor preferment to be made a major in a Labour Corps. Hers was an incredible version. It was merely a case of an impetuous pleasure-loving wife beyond the control of her husband, who was lamentably weak to let the matter go. If there were an agreement it was implied that thereafter she should live a chaste life which she had not done.—(A. and N.Z.) A Critical Question. Mr Justice M‘Cardie sought to clear up the question of Dennistoun ’s French domicile. “If you say the dissolution of the marriage was invalid you see the consequences regarding the marriage of Mr Dennistoun and Lady Carnarvon?” Sir Edward Marshall Hall: It is for your Honour to decide. I submit that Dennistoun's acceptance of a French domicile was collusive, in order to enable his wife to get a divorce.
His Honour: That raises the graver issue whether Mr Dennistoun is Lady Carnarvon’s husband. You must say what you think in respect to the validity of the divorce. Counsel: For the purpose a of this case, I admit the validity of Dennisterra's divorce. His Honour (with sin prise): “For purposes of this ease? Having regard to the family interests invn'vod, and alto Mrs Dennistoun ’.s desire to remarry, it is important that we should ■now the points which may arise at the termination of this case. You think it over.”
Mr Birkett, counsel for Dennistoun, said the jury would ask why the. case was defended, when a payment by Lady Carnarvon of probably less than the ease was costing her would have averted the daily anguish ef seeing columns in the newspapers.—(A. and N.Z.'
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Wairarapa Age, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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