TWO FOOLISH ESCAPADES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIILI, Issue 1156, 3 May 1919, Page 3

TWO FOOLISH ESCAPADES.

Mr Justice Hill! was asked! to exercise hiis discretion* says the Daily Chronicle, to, favour of a hustend suing' for a divorce* who frankly admitted th'a,t he Ipd carried out two foolish escapades* as counsel called them'. The petitioner waaMr Felix Simiou BerHypi* a- toli'acconisf, of Manchester, £inJl he sought a divorce from; his wife, Gladys, on the i ground of her misconduct with Co!lonel Disney Watt. Sir Ellis Hume Williams, K.C-, M.P., petitioner's said the parties were informed in January, 1909. After the petitioner Jaft, his wife he wats feeling' lonely and unhappy. One wight he met a young lady ' in London who was. equally lonely. She -wag engjag-ed to a soldier who had lately gone to th'e front. They dined together in Soho> talking! aftfout books, music and art. Their relations were purejly P 1 *' tonic. They afterwards 'hooked a roomi. at an hotel*, where thiey; stayed'for the night* continuMg their talk. No misconduct, took ptoce. His lordship! saiid! he coiiWn,ot.accept the ex"pla.natio»: of th;e. «pond incident* aurd although! b,e found thlat the misconduct of tfoie wife witih the co-respondent had fcjoein prow ed> he was linage to accfedtei to Itfee petitioner's pea*- and thfe p*s!tfon, iniust te dismissed. ; .