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t_— MARRIED AT LLANDUDNO.

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t_ — MARRIED AT LLANDUDNO. SEEK DIVORCE AT' DUBLIN. MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES OF ROMAN CATHOLIC AND JEW. A remarkable divorce suit was begun in the Dublin Courts on Friday, when Mrs Kathleen Harris, of Windsor-road, RathmineS, petitioned for a divorce from ¡ her husband, Morris Harris, on the I ground of misconduct and cruelty. The' petitioned, who is a Catholic, was married in 1891, at Llandudno to the defendant, who is a Jew, and carries on a. large busi- ness in Nassau-street, Dublin, as a dealer in antiques. The defence was a denial of the cruelty and misconduct, and also' a plea that if they did take place they had been condoned. Mr Healey, M.P., in stating the ease for the petitioner, said it was largely the result of one of those mixed marriages, which brought despair and sadness on tse who engaged in them. The re- spondent was introduced to his client, by her brother in a Dublin theatre. He at once began the most amorous protesta- tions, and asked her in marriage. So ardent and so persistent was he that she consented, and having received a dispensa- tion from Rome they were married in the Oath olio church at Llandudno, the re- spondent being at the time nearly seventy years of age. After the honeymoon Mr Harris, re- quested his wife, tal remain at, the Welsh watering-place while he went back to Dublin to prepare a home for her, and there she. remained with her sister for a couple of weeks, the ostensible reason being that Mr Harris found it difficult to get his housekeeper out of the house. It transpired afterwards that this house- keeper was the sister of his deceased wife,, a woman named Sarah White. She died last year and counsel said he, would be as tender to her memory as he could. Shortly after the wife returned to Dub- lin religious difference aro,se. The re- spondent heaped, ridicule and abuse on hs client's religion, and eventually ab- sented himself from his home, and not, even took his meals there. The petitioner boldly went one day to the house in which the woman lived, and White then said: "He loves me; he does not love you. I am his real wife, and you are not." This statement she subsequently repeated when she met the petitioner in the street. In 1900, when the old man was very ill, his wife returned to the housel, and found ten relatives by 'his first, marriage! before her, but seeing his condition she continued to nurse him, notwithstanding she was insulted by his relatives. When he recovered she was continually beaten by the old man, and on one. occasion he flung a tiara, case at her, causing an ugly wound on her head, and finally, after an incident no woman could tolerate, she left him for good. Mrs Harris, who stated she was the, daughter of a land surveyor in co. Gal- way, was then examined, and bore out counsel's statements. A child, which survived above a week, was born in 1892. When she arrived back in Dublin after marriage the husband met her, and said he found it hard to get rid of the house- keeper, as she had been in the house for over twenty-seven years. The house- keeper was not got away for a month, and in the interval she took lodgings with her husband. She deta,iled certain acts upon which she founded her petition. At Tuesday's sitting respondent said: he had been in business in Dublin for fifty years as an antique dealer and jeweller, and wa,s first married in 1847. His first wife died in 1863. He married petitioner in 1891. Subsequent to the marriage in the Catholic Church at Llandudno, zn and before the birth of the only child, re- spondent declared that his wife had re- nounced her religion and had become a member of his synagogue. She was mar- ried to him according to Jewish rites. Respondent emphatically denied tha,t there was ever any impropriety of any sort between him and a Miss White. On one occasion, in 1895, his wife went to the house where he was and used the most abusive language. He left the house and she followed him through Camden-street and Dame-street, and there were about forty or fifty people following, and created the greatest sensation. He was compelled to go to the police court and make an application to the magistrate for' protection. She threatened him with all sorts of things. I Interrogated by Mr Chambers as to, his relations with his wife, witness stated that even the night before, Mrs Harris was with him at supper, and had lived with him since the commencement of these proceedings1. She had come into his room and talked to him about the case, and threatened him with the witnesses and what, "Mr Tim" was going tOI do to him. This was greeted with lou:d laugh- ter, in which Mr Healy haying joined, remarked, "That is not condonation, at all events." Witness She threatened me with what "i-Vlr Tim." was going to do with me when he got hold of me.-(Renewe,d laughter.) Asked if he had burned his wife's prayer-books1, respondent replied, "I never saw her prayer-books, but I saw plenty of novels."—(Laughter.) In cross-examinaton by Mr Healv, M.P., witness said he went to Archbishop, Walsh himself about the marriage, and got the dispenation from Rome at once. He paid no fees for the dispensation or for the marriage at Llandudno, He' did not recollect signing any document agree- ing not to. interfere with his wife's reli- gion or that of the children of the mar- riage. The child born was born a Jewess-, not a Christian. The Rev. Moses Hyanson, ecclesiastical assessor to the Chief R.aibbi in London, produced entries made. in the Jewish re- cords as to. the admission of petitioner into the Jewish faith, and also as to the I alleged promise of respondent, to bring up ? the children as Catholics. "Kathleen < Harris," the entry read), "underwent ritual according to Jewish law, and her name in Israel is Rachel, daughter of the patriarch Abraham. Counsel handed in a certificate of bap- tism of the child as a Catholic by Father Carberry, who, it, was stated, died on Saturday. Mrs Elizabeth Sinclair, a daughter of the respondent by his first marriage, de- Z!1 clared she never saw any impropriety be- twen her father and the Miss White men- tioned, who was her mother's sister. She was not aware of her father's marriage until she saw it in the papers. The re- spondent had brought two of witness's sons up Jews. He had adopted them when young. Mrs Harris frequently abused the re- spondent, said the witness, and created scenes at his shop, in Nassau-street. She denied that. she described her father as "a reprobate" to Mrs Harris, or that she bad said to him when sick, "How can you look on. that, woman who has made, your child a, Christian." In cross-examination, the witness said she had spoken to the petitioner to use her influence with the respondent to have him make allowance for'Miss White, who had reared Mr Harris's first, children. By Judge Johnson: She might have said to Mrs Harris that she was the lucky one, as there was a, Liverpool, widow looking after the respondent. Charles Soper, an assistant in the re- spondent's shop, stated he heard the peti- tioner making repeated references to Miss White in the shop. On one occasion he saw her struggling with her husband. She had a knife in her hand, and Harris shouted to him to take it, away. It was an antique kind of dagger that, used to be knocked about the shop.—(Laughter.) The respondent's case having closed, the Most, Rev. Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, was called by Mr Healy and ex- amined as to an interview with Harris as to obtaining a dispensa;tion from Rome for his marriage with the petitioner. It was untrue for Mr Harris to say that the dispensation had not been refused at first. The respondent pressed him for special reasons to renew the applicaton, and the witness did so. Mr Harris said that, the, case was one of great, urgency, and the witness lost no time in writing to Rome. The witness was then empowered by Rome to grant the dispensation on the usual conditions as to, the children being brought up in the Cathsolic faith, and tha,t there was to be. no Jewish marriage before or after the Catholic, one. The conditions, which Mr Harris agreed to, were communicated to the priest in charge of the case. The respondent said that he might rely on him with absolute con- fidence to carry out the conditions. T'o the Judge Mr Harris told me of a very serious circumstance which induced me to. renew application to the, Holy See. Mrs Harris, the petitioner, was recalled, and swore, that it, was quite untrue for her husband to swear that she had lived with him as his wife recently. She had- not done so' for years. On Thursday the case was concluded with a verdict, for the petitioner on the charge of cruelty. The jury disagreed on the question of misconduct. Judge Johnson said this was a verdict for Mrs Harris, and gave a decree of divorce, a mense et, thora, with costs. The judge., in charging the jury, saicl there was proof iof physical valence beyond, all doubt. The jury would have. to consider whether the charges of misconduct were, borne out, by the evidence and he pointed out. that servants had substantially borne out the story of the petitioner. The jury were- absent for fifty minutes, and on announcing their agreement on the charge of cruelty stated that there was no chance of their agreeing on the question of misconduct.

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