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...still the wife of London Ship-Broker Ernest Simpson, although she has obtained a decree nisi of divorce scheduled to become final on April 27. She first met Mr. Simpson, then married to a previous wife, at the home of a Mrs. Jacques Raffray of Manhattan. Last week Mrs. Raffray arrived in England and was met by Mr. Simpson. They traveled up to London in the same railway compartment, separated on the platform of Waterloo Station, ran out by separate doors, jumped into the same taxi, curled up together on the floor to escape the notice of reporters. When exhorted...
Birkett: "The lady's name, My Lord, was mentioned in the petition,† so now I ask for a decree nisi with costs against the Respondent" [Mr. Simpson...
Birkett: "Decree nisi with costs...
...double bed. There must be no provable collusion in an English divorce case and judges usually demand to hear in court the name of the "other woman" or corespondent. This had not been mentioned when Mrs. Simpson's lawyer asked the Court to grant the decree nisi of divorce,* and a fateful pause ensued. Mr. Justice Hawke was sitting hunched over his desk dangling his handkerchief before his nose, and he spoke through it almost indistinguishably to Norman Birkett, K.C. with a characteristic mannerism: "Well, I suppose I must come to the conclusion there was adultery in this case...
...further press attitudes on the Simpson Case, see p. 53. *Nisi: "unless." Meaning: the divorce is granted unless, within a probationary period, something turns up to prove the plaintiff unworthy of divorce. †Name: Miss "Buttercup" Kennedy...