REMARKABLE DIVORCE CASE.
Surely one of the most remarkable divorce cases on record is that in which Robert Baxter, employed as a seaman on a New South Wales coastal vessel bad his marriage with Elizabetn Catherine Baxter, formerly Hadgegoorn, dissolved. Baxter's experience was a curious one. He had know the respondent for several years, and their engagement extended over a period of six months. She was a domestic servant at a doctor's house. Baxter obtained a week's holiday ten years ago, and the parties resolved to get married, but after the ceremony the wife decided to return to her cituation. He repeatedly asked her to come and live with him, but she always refused, and while he was at sea she disappeared. He saw her in January last at Balmain, and when he asked her where she had been " all these years," she replied, " Oh, having some fun." Mr Justice Gr. B. Simpson characterised the case as a most extraordinary one, which he could not make out. Baxter, as he stepped from the witness-box, remarked, " It's the most curious case I have ever heard of." *
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 3
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185REMARKABLE DIVORCE CASE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 3
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