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Show Mrs. Cornwallis-West Is Granted a Divorce SB .: SS isijsyjil Va. JBF S ShSS MRS. CORNWALLIS-WEST, Former New York woman, who today secured a decree In London against her English husband. . LONDON, July 13. A decree of divorce di-vorce was granted today to Mr. George Cornvrsllis-West, formerly Ladv Randolph spencer Churchill, a daughter of the late Leonard Jerome of New York. The decree (nisi) may be made absolute in six months. The grounds for granting the decree were statutory desertion and misconduct. miscon-duct. The hearing lasted only a few minutes. min-utes. No mention was made In court of the name of the woman alleged to have been co- respondent. Mr. Cornwallls-West. counsel stated, never obeyed the order of the court decreeing de-creeing the restitution of eonjugal rights and this constituted desertion. Mrs. Corwallls-West formally corroborated corrobo-rated counsel's statement regarding her husband's noncompliance with the restitutions! resti-tutions! order. She said her husband left her on Decemher 23. 1912, srnd never returned. re-turned. He had written her saying he never Intended to return. An Inquiry agent testified that the respondent re-spondent had registered with a woman not the petitioner In a London hotel in March, registering as Captain and Mrs. West. Mrs. Cornwallls-West gave her brief evidence In a collected manner and In a Arm voice. She was dressed In a quiet, dark blue costume and black hat. and stood on the witness stsnd spparently unmoved un-moved by the great crowd which had been attracted to the court by the case. Mrs. Cornwallls-West will hereafter be known by her former name of Lady Churchill, according to a statement made by as news agency. |