The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-01-27 00:00:00

A LOCAL DIVORCE CARE.

In the Divorce Court on v edneetbiy the case of
Colville v. Colville and Magill came before the Right
Hon. the President. In this PAO the petitioner, Mr.
Spencer Thiselton Colville, sued for a divorce from
his wife on the ground of his wife's adultery with the
correspondent Magill. Neither of the accused parties
appeared or answered. —The marriage took place on
June 1, MM. The petitioner was at the time of the
marriage 21 and the iewoodent IS years of ago The
marnage was at first kept secret, and the petitioner's
parents knew nothing about it After the marriage
the petitioner and his wife cohabited at Bath, but
wine two inontbs after he bound Init that previous to
it his wife had told bun a tissue of gross misrepresent*.
fions. Disagreements in consequence took place
between them, and on the 27th September of the
same year the petitioner went with his - ife to his
solicitor, Mr. Brennand, who MAA in practice at
Blandford, in Dorset, when a deed of separation was
prepared and executed By that deed the petitioner
covenanted to pay his wife an allowance at the rate of
IX per month, which allowance had been regularly
paid. On the separation the respondent appeared to
have gone to reside with her sister at Clesedon, in
Somereetshire, but from the time of the separatio
the petitioner had never seen her. n April 22 oj
last year the respondent had occasion to call at Mr
Brennand's office tor the purpose of receiving some
money to which she was e titled. On that cession
Mr. Brennand's suspicions w rearoused, and he caused
the respondent to be watched, when it was found
that she had gone with the co-respondent
who had been a solicitor in London, to Havre,
where they put up at an hotel, and took their passage
on board a steamer bound for New York. They had
been in the hotel some days when they left for the
vessel; but just as they were stepping on board they
were arrested at the instance of the landlord of the
hotel at which they put up, for payment of their
hotel bill. They were taken before a magistrate, who
sent them to prison. On that taking place, the
respondent wrote to her sister at Clevedon, stating
that she and her husband had got into a difficulty,
and asking her to send niGney to relieve them. She
stated that she expected s very day to be confined,
and expressed the horror she felt at being separated
from her husband, whom she had not seen since she
had been in prison only on one occasion, when she
was permitted to speak with him for a few minutes
through a grating. The respondent's sister, thinking ,
that the petitioner and hie wife had made up matters
and had come together. sent the letter to Mr.
Brennand, with instructions to send the money.
That gentleman sent off at once to Havre, where the
respondent and co-respondent were found in prison
The respondent being about to be confined was
liberated, but the co-respondent was detained until
the hotel bill was paid In the meantime this suit
was instituted, and the parties were served with the
citation on board the steamer in which they left for
America—The petitioner, ,lr. Spencer Thiselton
Colville, was called, and detailed the eircumstances
of his marriage, and his separating from his wife.—
Sir James Karmen : re you ..f any profession.
%tr. Colville : At the time of my =maim I was of
no profession. I am now a farmer—Sir James
!Lumen was satisfied of the wife's adultery with the
so-respondent, and pronounced a decree mei.