- • "The Times" 19 Jan 1912, page 3:
PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION.
BRITISH CONSUL'S PETITION.
WOODHOUSE v. WOODHOUSE AND DE PLAOUTINE
(Before the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Evans, President.)
This was the petition of Arthur William Webster Woodhouse for a divorce from his wife Selina Woodhouse, whose maiden name was Rogers, on the ground of her adultery with Mikhael de Plaoutine.
The case was an undefended one.
Mr. Willock said the petitioner, who was British Consul at St. Petersburg, was married to the respondent on April 26, 1892, at the English Church at Odessa. There were two children of the marriage.
In June and July, 1910, the respondent was at Vichy for her health, and there made the acquaintance of the co-respondent, who on her return to St. Petersburg called upon her and the petitioner. During the winter of 1910, the petitioner noticed that the respondent was worried, and preoccupied, and she admitted she had fallen in love, but refused to say with whom. In June, 1911, the respondent again went to Vichy, in spite of a suggestion from the petitioner that she should go to her sisters at Berkhamsted. She, however, consented to join him at Berkhamsted later. On August 21, 1911, the petitioner arrived there, but the respondent did not join him until August 25. She seemed nervous and ill at ease. She occupied a separate room, and seemed to have become completely estranged from the petitioner.
On September 18 the petitioner and his son left Berkhamsted on a week-end visit to Henley, and on their return found the respondent had gone, leaving a message that she did not intend to come back, and referring the petitioner for an explanation to a Mr. Crankshaw. On September 19 the petitioner saw that gentleman in London, and they went together to the Hotel Russell and had an interview with the respondent. She told them she had joined the co-respondent there, and had left the petitioner for good, and only asked to be allowed to write to her children. She subsequently introduced Mr. Crankshaw to the co-respondent, who admitted that the respondent and he had lived together at Vichy and in Switzerland. When served with the papers in the case, the respondent said in the presences of the co-respondent, "I am this man's mistress and I don't deny it."
Evidence having been given in support of the petition, the President pronounced a decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent, and gave the petitioner the custody of the two children of the marriage.
Solicitors. --- Pakeman, Son, and Read.
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