Mr, Gaine suggested to Lady Bowden that she had spent £1,653 between March and May 1936 on fur cloaks and coats, and £937 between January to August 1937 on dresses. r. C. Kingham (or Lady Bowden): Has £3,000 a year been set aside out of your income for the benefit of your creditors?
Lady Bowden (breaking down and crying): I have given up my freedom.
Is it your desire to pay your creditors in full?—Yes, Have you given up divorce proceedings so that the creditors cap be paid?—Certainly.
Mr. Stevenson said that Mr. Cork contemplated a claim against Sir Harold in regard to the motor-car, and he asked for the chauffeur's name.
Lady Bowden replied that his name was Bell, and said that he left Sir Harold's household when she did—like all the other servants.
The examination was concluded.
Mr. Walter Frampton held a watch. ing brief on behalf of Sir Harold Bowden.
We realise that these offences were committed under great provocation. This remark py the chairman expressed the view taken by the Cole-shill, Warwickshire, Bench of the conduct of a young married man, who admitted fracturing his wife's jaw with his fist and inflicting injury on a postman with a hammer, states the "News of the World."
The magistrates ordered the husband, Ronald Edwin Jenkin, 25, labourer, of Parkfield-road, Coleshill, to be bound over on' charges of assaulting his wife, Phyllis Jenkin, 23, and Albert Lea, 43, also of Parkfieldroad, Coleshill.
In the course of his evidence Lea stated he had occu on intimate terms with Mrs. Jenkin, On the evening of Jan. 13, he continued, he was walking down Park-field-road, when Mrs, Jenkin invited him in, After he had been in the house about two hours, Jenkin returned, but could not get in because the front. door locked.
He, Lea, was going through the front dock, when Jenkin came up ana forted to punch him. He got away and went home, Later that evening Jenkin called at his house and told Mrs, Lea he had returned home and found her hus-und with his wife, adding, "I have a Knife, and if I get him I will slit him."
Next morning he was delivering his letters when Jenkin approached him, "I said, 'Good morning, Ron,' continued Lea. Don't do anything rash, because I am on duty. I will see you later,"
He was raving all the time, and among other things said, I will shoot you before the week is out.
He had something in his hand, and I received a blow in the face with an instrument."
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