The Dustbin Case
Subtitle: Dennistoun verses Dennistoun
Publisher: William P Cross
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newport, Gwent, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781905914043
Description: The Dustbin Case by William Cross, is a dip into a further controversial episode in the life and times of Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon, chatelaine of Highclere Castle, Hampshire from 1895-1923. It is a lurid sex scandal from High Society in 1925, featuring Almina and her second husband, Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun. 
Described by Punch magazine as The Dustbin Case ( and elsewhere as The Sale Wife case ), Dennistoun verses Dennistoun was heard before "the bachelor judge", Mr Justice Henry McCardie, and a Special Jury on 3 March, 1925. The proceedings, in the Kings Bench Division of the High Court, in London, lasted almost a month. According to Time magazine it was " one of those periodic scandals that causes the various strata of British society to experience the gamut of emotions." McCardie, the Judge, called it "the most bitterly conducted litigation he had ever known." 

It is the story of the marital affairs of Lt. Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun and his first wife Dorothy, nee Webster. For four years Dorothy was "The Sale Wife", the mistress of the Great War general, Sir John Cowans, " the greatest Quartermaster since Moses" . In effect, Ian sold Dorothy to Cowans in order to gain preferment for himself in the British Army. It is a remarkable yarn of love, envy, hate and revenge.