There was a Far Eastern echo! in the Divorce Court to-day in the sensational trial of Sidney Harry] Fox, a young man who was sentence ed to death at the Lewes Assizes on March 21 and who will be hanged at Maidstone to-morrow for strangle ing hig mother at a Margate hotel after heavily insuring her life.
'Fox and his mother had been' living by his wits and both were practically destitute, His mother's body was found ina bed-room to which Fox had set fire, Tt transpired after sentence had deen given that he had previously} Veen cunvieted on charges of fraud.
"Mr, Justice Hill to-day granted a ocrea nisi to Captain George Alfred Morse, a master in the merchant! service in the ground of the adultery of his Far East, on the with Fox. The parties were ma fat Shanghai in December, 1908, and Rived there and at Hongkong and elsewhere. They had two children.
Captain Morse, who is at present that his nally visited. her parents at Sydney and came to Engliand in 1925 (0 send her children to. school, She was extravagant and he had not lived with her when he came home.
She committed adultery with Fox]
a flat at Southsea in 1927 and at} an hotel in London in 1928, It is understood that Fox, who id not appear, knew nothing of the divorce case and did not enter an anexeer to the charge—Reuter,
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