CHEYLESMORE DIVORCE.
A HECTIC EVENING. Cll E Y LESMORE ’S ADMISSIONS. LONDON, Saturday. In the Cheylesmore divorce ease, Lady Cheylesmore was' greatly distressed and sobbed bitterly during a. close examination. She said that her husband and his brother had been dreadfully drunk even while their mother was in Canada. Their mother was never cross about, anything they did, and both were spoilt. She quoted extracts front her husband's diary: ‘‘Had a hectic evening. Much worse for wear. Home wi'.fli two bottles of iizz and two of port. Very tight. Awfully sorry for Norali." Counsel, in his address, pointed out that, somebody of the Cheylesmore family had perpetrated a hostile, act towards '.‘he wife as far back ns 1919 bv sending to Tasmania for her birth certificate. Surely the mother-in-law must, have struck the court as being a masterful woman capable of being sweetly unkind. Judgment was reserved. Both husband and wife are petitioning for a divorce, r.liie husband in Canada, and the wife in England. The present action is to establish the husband’s domicile.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 December 1926, Page 5
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