The divorce action, Gohen Cohen, was continued at H. M. Supreme Court last Friday, before his Honour Judge Grain. Mr. H. Langley-Smith appears for the petitioner (Mrs. Cohen) and Mr. M. 5. Brown for the respondent.
Petitioner again went into the witness box, and in answer-to Mr. Langley-Smiths described a street cneident in which she alleged re-"spondent used insulting language towards her. She declared that respondent had threatened to have his "revenge," and added that from that time she carried a whistle in case he attempted to do her any harm when she might be alone.
In answer to Mr. Brown, witness denied that her story of the street incident was a deliberate-untruth.
Counsel questioned her as to the allegation that she was kept without food, and referred to an occasion on which fish and fowl ie-mained in the house uncooked and had to be thrown away.
Witness repeated that she had no food from respondent. saying that ~extra food was brought in when friends visited her husband. He then asked her to join in the meal, but she never did, because it was only a pretence when people were in the house.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. M. B. Brown opening the case for res-
In the course of his speech, -eounsel characterized the petitioaer's allegations of cruelty and adultery as fabrications. Respondent had an answer to every item. He would go into the box and offer a categorical denial of every charge made against him. The petition, which had been very carefully framed, was composed partly of gross exaggerations and partly, to "some extent, of inventions. There was not a.particle of truth in the allegations of cruelty, and the three allegations of adultery were denied in toto. The evidence called in stinport of them was of the most trifling nature and was untirely insufficient to convince a judge or jury or any reasonable man. Petitioner had related -a long story of incredible cruelty and if half, of if were true she was a a grievously "ill-used woman, thoroughly justified in bringing the case. But he was bound to say that part of her story would be proved to ba either invention or "exaggeration., Certainly there were disagreements and quarrels, but nothing occurred to justify the -serious charges brought against res-~pondent.
Counsel intimated that he had a number of witnesses to call for the
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