Mr. MeDonald, for respondent, Jeharacterized petitioner's story as being totally untrue, With. the exception of three statements she had made, her whole evidence amounted to perjury. The three exceptions were the state ment as to her name, the statement as to the date of the marriage, and the statement that she had threatened to slap her husband's face. He submitted that the decree asked for in this case should in no wise be granted, The two people concerned had lived a cat and dog.
probably with as much friction as ever existed between any two. people in Shanghai. Then they should look wt the way in which the woman had given her evidence. She had made up her mind to go into the box and deny every statement made against her, absolutely regardless of the truth, but she. had gone too far. Asked wheth she had even used an angry word had not the sense to that she-was just a words, the same way as everyone else. She went as far as definitely to. deny even that. If they accepted her story there was not a woman in Shanghai who was such model of virtue as she. There had been constant trouble between these two, and to send them back to live with each other would be. wrong, and to show up the marriage laws asa mockery of the sanctity of married life.
The Tsingtao Incidents.
Mr. Reader Harris also addressed the court at some length. He reminded his lordship that Mrs. Brook had said in her evidence that the first intimations she had of these charges of adultery were when she saw them in the answer filed to her petition. He submitted that they were entirely untrue, and were put in the answer with a view to frightening the lady out of bringing her case. Since she had decided to proceed all the respondent could do was to brazen it out. They had heard that these adulteries had all taken place in Tsingtao, yet they. had it in evidence that the husband had sent his wife to Tsingtao for a holly the following year, and had paid her fare and supplied her with money, also leaving the ehildren with her. It seemed rather 'a remarkable thing to do to send. an adulterous wife back to the scene of her adulteries, pay her fare and give her charge of the children. He had supported his wife while she was there, also, but had sent her a letter to the effect that the $500 a month he was allowing her, he might not be able to keep up. And that was the real reason the petition had been brought. If the Jdecree were granted and the husband refused to return, then alimony could be obtained and assured, The Judge reserved his dee sion.
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