Yet another of those cases from which European girls refuse to take warning. In January, 1913, a bright young actress, known as Eunice Camille Russell, whose father was a Melbourne barrister, and who consequently was something of a society. girl, married Thomas Jones Hsieh, a full-blooded Chinese official attached to the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne. The wedding attracted a good deal of attention and comment. Three months later Hsieh was awarded five years' imprisonment for shooting the Consul, the result, it was stated, of an unsuccessful demand for money. Later on he was released on condition he left Australia. Meanwhile the wife went to England and returned to her profession. There was a child, but it died. After his release Hsieh went to China and, so he said in a letter, divorced his wife. As this did not apparently free her she sought divorce for desertion, and the case recently came on for hearing in the absence of Hsieh. Apparently the judge was not exactly satisfied as to whether she deserted Hsieh, or Hsieh deserted her, and the matter has been postponed for further affidavits or for the lady to come to Australia and give evidence. So far, therefore, she is not Hsieh's wife in China, but still is in Australia.
There are some who recall the reported fact that she kept the bridegroom waiting at the church, and generally, much as Australians are bitterly opposed to these international marriages, sympathy is with the woman. At the time of marriage both parties were 29 years of age, so the infirmities of youth can hardly be blamed for the matrimonial muddle.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.