AN IMPOSSIBLE HUSBAND.
EXT RAO K DIXA R V STORY. In the London Divorce Court on Thursday, February 6, Mrs Agnes Mary Furness petitioned for divorce by reason of the cruelty and misconduct of her husband, Cecil Arundel Furness, whose position was not stated.
Counsel said the parties, after marriage in 1903, lived at Wimbledon. In 1910 petitioner was granted a judicial separation, and later a decree nisi. Mr. Furness, proceeded counsel, continued to live with a woman named Mary Could at Brighton, but subsequently he promised amendment and resumed cohabitation with Ins wife. The latter then visited the King’s Proctor, and the decree nisi was rescinded, and the petition dismissed. Petitioner paid her husband’s passage to America, whither he expressed a desire to go, but he returned to this country, and going homo the worse for drink, fired a revolver many times at his wife, one of the shots singeing her hair. The wife made a weekly allowance to him, but finding he was still carrying on with Mary Gould, dropped the payments. He then created , a disturbance at the house, and the police had to be called.
A decree nisi with costs was grant-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3796, 5 April 1913, Page 4
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196AN IMPOSSIBLE HUSBAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3796, 5 April 1913, Page 4
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